Yummmm!

After a stressful day at work, baking pumpkin spice loaf and banana bread was just the thing I needed to strip away the lingering apprehensions.  I found these cute little ceramic loaf pans at Michael's--a fun way to give a gift of bread to a friend, don't you think?  Two wonderful ladies from work will be receiving a small pumpkin loaf this morning. :)
For anyone who likes Starbuck's pumpkin bread, you'll love this recipe...it's moist, but firm pumpkin bread that has just about the same amount of spice.  I think I'd kick in a bit more cloves next time...
Here's the recipe!

PUMPKIN SPICE LOAF
Prep: 15 min.   Cook:  50 min.

Ingredients:
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
-4 eggs
-1 cup vegetable oil
-2/3 cup water
-3 cup white sugar
-3 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
-2 tsp baking soda
-1 1/2 tsp salt
-1 tsp ground cinnamon
-1 tsp ground nutmeg
-1/2 tsp ground cloves
-1/4 tsp ground ginger

Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water, and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
3. Bake for about 50 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

ENJOY!