Simple Pumpkin Bread
Don't be fooled, dear non-American readers! This is really a cake.(Mmm... cake.)
Ingredients:
3 cups (350 grams) flour
1/2 cup (60 grams) ground hazelnuts
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon each: nutmeg, cloves, ginger
1.5 teaspoons cinnamon (of course, I personally can't get enough cinnamon, and therefore use something like two teaspoons)
1 cup (200 grams) white sugar
1 cup (200 grams) brown sugar
1 cup (240 grams) melted butter
2 cups (about 450 grams) pumpkin puree
4 eggs
Instructions:
Preheat the oven to 350 F (180 C).
In a large bowl, mix the dry stuff: flour, hazelnuts, baking powder, salt, spices. Then mix in the sugars.
Mix in the melted butter, stirring well, then the pumpkin puree.
Add the eggs one at a time, blending thoroughly after each one.
Pour the batter into two buttered & floured loaf pans (each roughly 9 inches x 5 inches).
Bake for 50-60 minutes, until a stick inserted into the middle of one comes out clean.
Then just try to wait until they cool before you take a bite!
(Of course, like any spice cake, these are even better after 1-2 days wrapped in plastic.)
