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Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Filling

pumpkin spice dessert recipe
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Thank you The Spruce Eats for the recipe!

Ingredients

Cream Cheese Filling: 

  • 1 package cream cheese (room temperature)

  • ½ cup granulated sugar

  • 1 Tbsp all-purpose flour

  • 1 large egg 

  • 1 Tbsp finely grated orange zest

Cake: 

  • 1 + ⅔ cups all-purpose flour

  • 1 tsp baking soda

  • ½ tsp salt

  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon 

  • ¼ tsp ginger

  • ¼ tsp ground nutmeg

  • 1 cup pumpkin purée

  • ½ cup vegetable oil 

  • 2 large eggs

  • 1 + ½ cups granulated sugar

  • Dash ground cloves

  • 1 cup pecans or walnuts (chopped)

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 325°F and lightly grease and flour two 8 x 4 x 3-inch loaf pans. 

  2. In a medium mixing bowl, combine the cream cheese, granulated sugar, flour, egg, and orange zest. Beat until everything is well-blended and creamy. Set the mixture aside. 

  3. In another bowl, sift the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, and nutmeg. Set aside. 

  4. Put the pumpkin purée, vegetable oil, eggs, and granulated sugar in a large mixing bowl. Beat well. 

  5. Add the pumpkin mixture to the flour mixture, stirring until just combined. Fold in the walnuts or pecans. 

  6. Spread half of the pumpkin bread batter evenly into the loaf pans. 

  7. Spoon the cream cheese mixture on top of the pumpkin batter layer, then spoon the remaining pumpkin batter evenly over the cream cheese layer in each pan. Gently spread the batter over the cream cheese layer. 

  8. Bake the loaves for 60-70 minutes.

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