Healthy Pumpkin Bread

Perfect for Fall or with a cup of coffee anytime

No guilt. No added sugar.  Apple sauce instead of butter.

Breakfast.  Snack. Dessert.

Ingredients:

1/2 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
2 eggs (or 1 mashed ripe banana or 1 cup yogurt)
1/4 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
1/3 cup water
1/2 cup stevia
1-3/4 cups wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup golden raisins

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Apply non stick spray on pumpkin shaped pan or loaf pan
   
2. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, apple sauce, vanilla, water and stevia until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pan.
3. Bake for about 45 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

Serving Suggestion:

I love to serve this with a protein rich Greek Yogurt or little 10 calorie whipped cream on top or a side of apple sauce sprinkled with cinnamon.  Fresh raspberries are a juicy treat on top, too!

I made this bread for my kids for Halloween and they loved it!

She looks so cute in the green wig! Love it! She and her friends went as a pack of M&Ms.

My youngest daughter the cutest bumble bee ever. She is with My beloved 120 lb. dog and BFF Crunch. Rescued him from the shelter when he was a puppy. Sigh. Had to let him go to Heaven last year. He was 14. It makes my heart so heavy to look at him in this photo 🙁

Bumble Bee and Green M&M