Pumpkin Spice Bread with Brown Sugar Glaze

Throughout the holiday season, I always enjoy my Pumpkin Spice Bread Muffins and so this year for Thanksgiving I decided to make a loaf instead of muffins.

I mentioned in the muffin recipe post that I enjoy these so much with walnuts and raisins, so I decided to include those in the loaf as well. To dress it up a bit, I also decided to do a glaze over the bread loaf, and a brown sugar glaze seemed like the perfect way to go. It took an already delicious base to extraordinary.

My husband couldn't get enough, and he's not particularly partial to pumpkin at all, but it was that good! I served it for breakfast with my Quiche recipe, and this would even be great for Christmas morning!



Pumpkin Bread Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup unsalted butter or margarine, softened to room temperature
• 3/4 cup white sugar
• 3/4 cup brown sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1-1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1/2 tablespoon baking powder
• 3/4 tablespoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 can pumpkin (1 cup)
• 1/2 cup raisins
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Brown Sugar Glaze Ingredients:

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or margarine, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Soak raisins in a bowl just covered with orange juice to wake them up.
In a mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugars. Add eggs and mix until blended well.
In a separate bowl combine the dry ingredients (flour, baking soda, baking powder, spices). Once combined add the dry mixture into the butter/sugar mixture. Mix until barely combined, then fold in the pumpkin. Fold in the walnuts, then squeeze all the juice out of the raisins and fold those in.
Lightly spray or grease a standard size loaf pan, and pour mixture in. It should come to about 3/4 of the way up that pan, you can make muffins with the remaining mixture if there's any left.
Bake for 50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

While the loaf is beginning to cool, combine melted butter, vanilla extract, milk, brown sugar and powdered sugar.

Mix until well combined. Work fast, it will solidify quickly!

Remove the loaf from the pan, and place on parchment paper while still warm.

Drizzle the glaze over the bread liberally.

Sweet, delicious goodness!

Once cooled slice and serve. Be sure to use a serrated knife for a nice, clean cut that won't tear the bread and glaze up too much.

Enjoy!