Spiced Pumkin Bread w/ orange cream cheese

Posted by Pat

• 1/3 C. butter, softened 1 1/4 C. sugar
• 1 C. solid pack pumpkin 1 egg
• 1 3/4 C. flour 1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 C. dried currants 1/2 C. chopped pecans

Beat butter and sugar until light, add pumpkin and egg,mixing well. In medium bowl combine flour, pumpkin, pie spice, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and baking powder; gradually add to butter mixture, mixing until well blended. Stir in currans and pecans.

Pour into greassed loaf pan and bake at 350 for 1 to 1 hour and 15 min. or until wooden pick come out clean. Cool in pan on wire rack for 15 min. then remove from pan and cool completely.

Serve with orange cream cheese.


Orange Cream Cheese

In medium bowl combine 1 8oz. pkg. softened cream cheese, 3 T. sugar, 2 tsp. vanilla and 1 tsp. dried orange peel; stir until smooth. Stir in 1 to 1 tsp milk to make spreading consistency.
I like to let the orange cream cheese set a while so the dried orange peel isn't so hard.