For Pancake day, I made pumpkin bread alongside vegan pancakes with soya cream and rhubarb. My friend Natalie wanted to use up the remaining pumpkin cluttering her freezer and my taste buds were tingling for some pumpkin flesh.
I loosely followed a pumpkin bread recipe from my The 100 Best Vegan Baking Recipes book I got for Christmas. (Funny note the recipe was named Pumpkin Cinn-a-Zag Bread. Crazy huh?) It is supposed to be combination of cinnamon swirl and pumpkin bread.
This is the recipe:
Stuff yoo need to make it
. a mug and a 'alf of flour
. 3/4 mug of sugar ( make sure it is unrefined as caster is usually charred through animal bone! yikes
. 1 teaspoon then 'alf a teaspoon of baking soda/bicarbonate (same thing init)
. 2 tablespoons of cinnamon- just chuck as much as you like!
. 1 tablespoon of ginger or / and nutmeg! if you like your pumpkin bread flavoursome!
. Pinch of salt
. 1/4 mug of oil
. 3/4 mug of apple sauce (mine was from aldi and only 59p!
. 'alf a mug of soya milk
. 1/4 mug of brown sugaaaaa
. blended or canned or diced pumpkin. I left it quite chunky, which I felt added more flavour.
Preheat oven to 200C
Grease a loaf tin with greasy stuff( soy marg or oil)
In a bowl, mix flour, sugar and baking soda with wooden spoon.
Add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, spices and salt. Slowly add the pumpkin, oil, apple sauce and milk.
In a separate bowl, mix brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of cinnamon.
Pour half the batter into the loaf pan and sprinkle with brown sugar mixture. Then pour other half of batter over. Draw a knife through the loaf to make a zig zag pattern (I didn't do this and now have no pumpkin left till October to try it out :()
Bake for 30-35 minutes, poking a sharp thing in to make sure insides are doughy! It may look done on the outside but sloppy inside takes longer. I sound ded clever.
Cool on a cooling rack, and enjoy!
I did find this VERY sweet, and thought this was more a cake than bread.
I'm going to try using yeast extract and wholemeal flour instead next time and making it like proper bread! Still keeping the sweet ingredients to epitomise the wondorous contrast of the sweet and savoury magic of PUMPKIN!
