Spiced Maple Pecan Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Icing
Ingredients
¾ cup
Organic Valley Butter, divided
1 cup
pure maple syrup
2
Organic Valley Eggs
1 ¼ cups
canned pumpkin
2 tsp.
pure vanilla extract, divided
1 ½ cups
whole-wheat pastry flour
1 tsp.
baking soda
1 ½ tsp.
pumpkin pie spice
½ tsp.
ground cinnamon
¼ tsp.
sea salt
½ cup
chopped pecans
16 oz.
Organic Valley Cream Cheese
½ cup
agave nectar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350°.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream ½ cup butter, syrup, eggs, pumpkin and 1 tsp. vanilla.
- In a separate mixing bowl, mix together flour, soda, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and salt; stir in pecans.
- Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients until just fully incorporated (do not overmix).
- Spoon batter into a well-greased loaf pan; bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (about 1 hr.).
- Cream together cheese, agave nectar, and remaining vanilla and butter until completely combined; instead of frosting the entire loaf, cut loaf into 8 slices and frost individual slices.
Find It!
- Find agave nectar in the baking aisle near the sugar.
A 2008 Celebrate Organic Holiday Recipe Contest Winner submitted by Carol Wasserman of Chappaqua, NY.
