This yummy family tradition started when buying the kids their pumpkins. Each of the kids got one to make their jack-o'-lantern. Mama got one to cook! Friends and family usually enjoy this treat. Tweak it to fit your family as I do mine. Enjoy with confectioners' sugar on top or cream cheese frosting.
Ingredients
- white sugar: 2 cups
- ½ cups applesauce: 1 piece
- pumpkin puree: 2 cups
- eggs: 4 piece (beaten)
- baking powder: 2 tsp
- baking soda: 2 tsp
- ground cinnamon: 2 tsp
- salt: 1 tsp
- ground ginger: 0.5 tsp
- ground cloves: 0.5 tsp
- ground mace: 0.25 tsp
- walnuts: 0.5 cup (chopped, optional)
- semisweet chocolate chips: 0.5 cup (optional)
- all-purpose flour: 3 cups
- confectioners' sugar: 0.25 cup
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
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Mix white sugar and applesauce together in a large bowl; stir pumpkin puree and eggs into sugar mixture until smooth. Mix baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, ginger, cloves, and mace into pumpkin mixture; fold in walnuts and chocolate chips. Stir flour into pumpkin mixture until fully incorporated. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pans.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of each loaf comes out clean, 1 hour. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack. Sprinkle each loaf with confectioners' sugar.
