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Frosted Pumpkin Spice Bread

FROSTED PUMPKIN SPICE BREAD

Frosted Pumpkin Spice Bread is the official recipe for fall. Easy-to-make (and enjoy), this sweet, rich, moist, bread will have you asking for "one more slice". Warm and slathered in a sweet cream cheese frosting, this is a seasonal must-have!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Course bread, Breakfast, Dessert, Side Dish
Cuisine American
Servings 6

Ingredients
  

Pumpkin Spice Bread

  • 3 Large Nature's Yoke Legacy Free Range Eggs
  • 3/4 cup canola oil or vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2 cups sugar
  • 1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 3/4 tsp ginger (we used dried)
  • 1/2 tsp cloves
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/4 tsp nutmeg
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts

Frosting

  • 3 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
  • 3 tbsp butter (room temperature)
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp milk

Candied Pumpkin Seeds

  • 1/4 cup roasted pumpkin seeds
  • 1 tbsp granulated sugar
  • 1 tbsp brown sugar
  • 1/2 tbsp Nature's Yoke Legacy Free Range Egg whites
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon

Instructions
 

Pumpkin Spice Bread

  • Preheat oven to 350º F
  • Line bread pan with parchment paper, set aside. Our bread pan was 9x5x3.
  • In medium bowl add the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger.
  • In large bowl whisk in the eggs, oil, vanilla and sugar.
  • Stir in the pumpkin.
  • Add in the flour mixture and stir until just combined.
  • Fold in the walnuts.
  • Pour batter into prepared bread pan.
  • Bake 65 minutes or until tooth pick inserted into center comes out clean.
  • Let cool completely.

Frosting

  • In bowl or mixer, cream together the cream cheese and butter.
  • With mixer on low add in the powdered sugar, then add in the milk.
  • Mix well until combined.
  • Spread over the top of the bread, sprinkle with candied pumpkin seeds.
  • Store in cool, dry place.

Candied Pumpkin Seeds

  • Mix pumpkins seeds and egg whites together. 
  • Next add the sugars and cinnamon. Mix very well so pumpkin seeds are coated.
  • Pour onto a parchment lined baking sheet. Scrape out all the seeds and the sugar mixture onto baking sheet.
  • Bake for 15 minutes at 300º F. Mixture will puff up as it bakes and will turn light golden brown.
  • Let cool, mixture will deflate once it begins to cool. Then break up by hand or chop into pieces.
  • Sprinkle on top of the cream cheese frosting.
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