Pumpkin Pineapple Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin
• 1 cup honey
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/4 cup peanut butter (optional)
• 4 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 8 ounces pineapple chunks, drained well
• 1 cup raisins

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees f.
• 2 grease 2, 9x5 loaf pans. set aside.
• 3 in a medium bowl add flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ground cardamom, and salt. mix lightly by hand and set aside.
• 4 on a cutting board run a chefs knife through the pineapple chunks a few times to cut into smaller pieces. maybe quartered at most. pat dry. set aside.
• 5 in a large mixing bowl add pumpkin, honey, oil, peanut butter, eggs, and vanilla. mix well with a hand mixer until the oil is well incorporated.
• 6 add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture and mix on low to medium speed just until flour mixture is well blended.
• 7 stir in chopped pineapple and raisins by hand.
• 8 the batter will be thick.
• 9 divide batter evenly into 2 9x5 loaf pans.
• 10 bake for 50-55 minutes. cooking times may vary by oven.
• 11 loaves are done when a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out completely clean. my loaves took 55 minutes.
• 12 cool in pans on a cooling rack for 30 minutes and then remove loaves to cooling racks to cool completely.