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<\/a>Libby’s Pumpkin Is Okay.<\/p><\/div>\n
Pumpkin bread is tricky because it can turn out dry, over spiced or just plain tasteless. Adding in the complication of making it FODMAP friendly and gluten free and it’s a serious recipe for disaster. My Mom and I decided to tackle pumpkin bread this past weekend and we were incredibly happy with the results. Mr. MVP was also pleased.<\/p>\n
To start with you will need ingredients:<\/p>\n
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- 1 cup applesauce<\/li>\n
- 2 cups granulated sugar<\/li>\n
- 4 large eggs<\/li>\n
- 2 cups pumpkin (not pumpkin pie filling)<\/li>\n
- 2\/3 cup water<\/li>\n
- 3 1\/3 cups gluten free flour mix (I love King Arthur Flour GF flour)
\n<\/a><\/li>\n- 1\/2 teaspoon baking powder<\/li>\n
- 2 teaspoons baking soda<\/li>\n
- 1 teaspoons salt<\/li>\n
- 1\/4 teaspoon cinnamon<\/li>\n
- 1\/4 teaspoon nutmeg<\/li>\n
- 1\/4 teaspoon cloves<\/li>\n
- 1 teaspoon vanilla<\/li>\n
- 1 cup chocolate chips, optional (I use vegan chocolate chips)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Now, this pumpkin bread is truly nothing fancy. We used a mixer, but honestly you really probably don’t even need that. If you want to make it full of gluten, just use regular flour in place of the gluten free flour. These recipes work both ways. It’s like baking magic. The first thing you need to do is preheat your oven to 350 degrees. On your way back from the oven grab two bread tins and the vegetable oil.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nTake your tins and lightly grease them with the oil. I have no idea what my Mom and I are doing right here, but prepping the pans is really simple. Just take a paper towel and rub oil all over the inside of the pan.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nNow that your pans are taken care of, in a large bowl measure out the applesauce, sugar, eggs, pumpkin and water.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThen using your preferred method, mix everything together. I used a mixer and ended up with pumpkin on my face.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nI had pumpkin everywhere. It was orange fun.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nNow comes the dry ingredients. Measure out the gluten free flour mix, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and vanilla.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nObviously, the next step is mixing in the dry ingredients. Using a mixer was a little overkill on my part. I recommend a spatula or a wooden spoon.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThe batter will be loose, but don’t worry. Scrape down the sides of your bowl and keep moving forward because this bread is so incredibly delicious.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nWe took a vote and decided to put vegan chocolate in one loaf and keep one loaf plain. I have no idea why they let me measure out the batter for the first loaf because I am terrible at estimation, but I was in charge, so I put what I thought was half in the first pan.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThen I measured the chocolate into the remaining batter and quickly discovered I had mis-measured. O well. I stirred the chocolate in anyway.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nThen I put the rest of the pumpkin batter in the other pan. To solve the uneven problem my Mom put some of the chocolate chip pumpkin batter in the very end of the unequal pan.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nProblem solved!<\/p>\n