Best Pumpkin Bread you ever ate!

Pumpkin Bread

(with cream cheese ribbon in center)

YUMMMMMMMMY!

I started looking for recipes to match the Starbuck's Pumpkin loaf that we served our guests at the cottages a couple of years ago.

I found this amazing recipe that outshines them all!

It just gets moister and better each day... believe me... you'll have it gone way before it could spoil! ENJOY!

1 LARGE loaf (or bundt pan)

Filling

1 8oz pack of cream cheese

1/3C sugar

1 egg

1 Tbsp. flour

2 tsp. grated orange peel

Batter:

1 1/2C canned pumpkin

1/2 C vegetable oil

1 1/2 C sugar

2 eggs

1/2 tsp. ground cloves

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 2/3 C flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 C. chopped nuts (as desired)

Directions for filling:

Beat together cream cheese, sugar and flour. Add egg and orange peel. set aside.

Batter directions:

Combine pumpkin, oil and eggs. Stir in sugar, salt, cloves and cinnamon. Mix well. Stir in flour and baking soda. Blend in pecans.

Pour 1/2 batter in a greased and floured large loaf pan.

Carefully spread cream cheese mixture over the 1/2 pumpkin mixture.

Cover with the remaining pumpkin batter.

Bake 1 1/2 hours at 325 degrees until tooth pick in the center comes out clean.

cool on wire rack