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Fresh Cranberry and Walnut Pumpkin Bread

Posted Oct 27 2010 12:46pm

One bite into this bread and you will swoon.

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A crisp, slightly sweet crust, crunchy walnuts, and hot, fresh cranberries that explode in your mouth as you bite into them. Oh, and pumpkin. Yes please.

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Did I mention there’s no butter or oil and that this pumpkin bread is 100% whole wheat? :) Nothing but the best for you, friends.

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Fresh Cranberry and Walnut Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients:

(makes 1 loaf; about 12 slices)

Dry:

  • 1.5 C whole wheat pastry flour (NOT regular whole wheat flour)
  • 1 C oats
  • 1/2 C brown sugar
  • 1/3 C ground flaxseed
  • 1/3 C walnuts (optional)
  • 1.5 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 tsp. baking soda

Wet:

  • 1 C canned pureed pumpkin
  • 1 C fresh cranberries (leftover from my Cranberry Caramel Date Bars !)
  • 3/4 C skim milk (or dairy substitute)
  • 1/4 C applesauce
  • 1 egg (or 1 vegan flax egg )
  • 1 tsp. vanilla extract

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Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350. In two large separate bowls, mix dry, then wet, and then combine, adding wet to dry and stirring gently until the mixture is uniform-ish.

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Spoon the mixture into a non-stick or cooking sprayed bread pan – mine is 9×5. (You can also turn this into muffins by using a muffin tin instead – just bake 25 minutes).

Sprinkle some oats and about a teaspoon of brown sugar on top to make a nice crunchy crust :)

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Pop the bread the oven for an hour – fork check to make sure it’s done.

And voila!

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Cool bread on a wire rack while taking glamour shots ;)

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And then… dig in!

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Happy Wednesday :)

No more procrastinating – I‘ve got to get back to work! I’m writing a paper for my Maternal and Children’s Health class about whether television viewing increases the risk of childhood obesity. So far, based on the studies I’ve found, it looks like – yes, it does! But for reasons you might not think – television watching doesn’t seem to be linked to the amount of physical activity a child gets – but it DOES seem to lead to increased food consumption (while watching TV). Interesting!

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