Recipe: Pumpkin Bread (like Bob Evan's Restaurants) (recipe correction - 12-12-09)

I found this recipe, and am planning to try it for the upcoming holidays. I have not yet tried it personally.

PUMPKIN BREAD (LIKE BOB EVANS)

"I made this earlier today and it was absolutely fabulous!! It's virtually identical to the pumpkin bread that Bob Evans Restaurants sell and nicely moist and slices easily. Half of it was gone before it even cooled!! My husband said it was identical to the expensive restaurant bread. I will make this again!!"

3 1/2 cups (one 29 ounce can) pumpkin puree (not sweetened pie filling)
2 2/3 cups white granulated sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
3 cups plus 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F Grease and flour two (9x5 inch) loaf pans.*

In a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin, sugar, oil, and eggs; set aside.

Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and cloves; stir into the pumpkin mixture until well blended. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans.

Bake in preheated 350 degree F oven for 55 to 60 minutes. The top of the loaf should spring back when lightly pressed and a toothpick inserted in the middle should come out clean.

*I use silicone loaf pans which I highly recommend. I still spray them with Pam because I'm paranoid but everything I bake FALLS right out of the pan. I've been using them since 2006 when I got my first silicone bundt pan and it worked so well that I threw away ALL my other baking pans and bought all silicone--including the mats to bake cookies on. I can't recommend them highly enough--THEY TOTALLY ROCK!

Makes 2 loaves
Source: LimoBarbie, Recipezaar, December 23, 2008