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pumpkin bread

Pumpkin Bread with Caramel Icing

September 26, 2014 by sblades Leave a Comment

 
I’m jumping on the Great Autumn Pumpkin Bandwagon (that’s what I call it anyway) and posting the best pumpkin recipe ever.  Ever.  I’ve made this pumpkin bread for years because it’s so very good and moist.  Nothing worse than a dry quick bread.

This year the recipe is even better with the addition of caramel icing.

We never ate pumpkin when I was a kid. My Mom made everything with sweet potatoes (including an incredible sweet potato pie). To this day, I don’t really like pumpkin pie, but I do love this pumpkin bread!

Pumpkin Bread with Caramel Icing
This icing originally came from a Pumpkin Cookie with Icing recipe, but I made a mess out of the cookies and ended up using the icing on my tried-and-true pumpkin bread recipe. The result is very successful and the recipe immediately altered to include the icing in the instructions.

Bret has a general mistrust of quick breads – I promise him I don’t put onions in them, but he’s suspicious. He liked this pumpkin bread, though, and compared the icing to his grandmother’s famous banana bread caramel frosting. It’s a great compliment.

Pumpkin Bread with Caramel Icing2

This Pumpkin Bread with Caramel Icing is thick, moist and delicious. It’s just rich enough and the icing surprisingly doesn’t make it too sweet. Give me a fork and let me loose with this bread. Awesome.

Put this pumpkin bread recipe on your holiday recipe list. I promise it won’t disappoint and your friends and family (and you) will love it. It makes 2 loaves, so you can give one away and keep one for yourself!

Pumpkin Bread with Caramel Icing

Pumpkin Bread with Caramel Icing

Yield: 2 loaves

Outstanding pumpkin bread with amazing caramel icing.

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 C. pumpkin puree, about 1 full can and not pie filling
  • 1 C. oil
  • 2/3 C. water
  • 3 C. sugar
  • 3 1/2 C. flour
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 1/2 tsp. salt
  • 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. nutmeg
  • Caramel Icing:
  • 6 tbsp butter
  • 1/2 C. heavy whipping cream
  • 1 C. packed light brown sugar
  • Two pinches of salt
  • 1 1/2 to 2 C. sifted powdered sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 °.
  2. Mix wet ingredients together along with sugar until well blended.  In a separate bowl, mix together dry ingredients and gradually add to wet mixture while mixing on low.
  3. Divide mixture and pour into 2 sprayed loaf pans.  Bake for 45 min. to 1 hour, turning pans once during baking.  Cool before turning out on rack and icing.
  4. To make the icing:  In a medium saucepan, combine the butter, cream, brown sugar and salt and cook over medium heat.  Stir constantly until the mixture comes to a low boil.  Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla and 1 1/2 C. powdered sugar.  Stir well. It will thicken considerably on cooling, so don't add too much more powdered sugar.  
  5. After cooling, if it's still thinner than you want, add a little more powdered sugar and mix very well until it's the consistency you want. Let cool slightly before icing loaves.

Notes

Tips and Stuff:

I used freshly grated nutmeg because the flavor is so much better (and my bottled nutmeg is probably 10 years old).

My bread came out best when I used a glass loaf dish for baking.  My larger metal loaf pan browns the crust a little too much.

Be patient after adding the sifted powdered sugar to the icing - keep stirring until it's smooth and lump-free.

After removing the pans from the oven, while the loaves were still hot, I pressed down lightly on the tops with a pot holder to make it flatter.  That way the icing isn't thin on the top and running down the sides (even with this thick icing).

As always, put a sheet of waxed paper under the rack while you're icing the loaves.

Nutrition Information:
Yield: 24 Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 410Total Fat: 16gSaturated Fat: 4gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 44mgSodium: 318mgCarbohydrates: 66gFiber: 1gSugar: 49gProtein: 3g

Nutrition Values are Approximate

© sblades
Category: Breads/Muffins

Filed Under: All Recipes, Breads/Muffins, Cakes, Holiday Recipes Tagged With: caramel icing, pumpkin bread

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