Pumpkin Bread

Method and recipe adapted by Joy of Baking. 

(I'd tweaked the recipe's ingredients to one loaf and omitted the cream cheese filling.)

• 225 grams all purpose flour 
• ½ teaspoon baking powder 
• ½ teaspoon baking soda 
• ¼ teaspoon salt 
• 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• ¼ teaspoon ground ginger 
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves (optional) 
• ½ cup (120 ml) chopped nuts (pecans or walnuts) 
• ½ cup (120 ml) chocolate chips 
• 2 large eggs, room temperature 
• 1 cup (200 grams) granulated white sugar (I added 100g of sugar instead of 200g)
• ½ cup (113 grams) unsalted butter, melted and cooled to room temperature 
• 213 grams of pure pumpkin puree 
• 60 ml of water 
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 

Method:

• In a large bowl, sift or whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and ground spices. 
• Stir in the chopped nuts and chocolate chips. In another large bowl, whisk the eggs until lightly beaten. 
• Add the sugar and melted butter and whisk to combine. Whisk or stir in the pumpkin, water, and vanilla extract. 
• Add the pumpkin mixture to the flour mixture and stir just until the ingredients are combined and moistened. Do not over mix as it will make the bread tough. 
• Bake the breads for about 55 - 65 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean (a few moist crumbs is okay). 
• Place pans on a wire rack and let cool for about 10 minutes before removing breads from pans. Can serve warm, cold, or at room temperature. Store leftovers in the refrigerator or else freeze for later use. 

Fresh ingredient: Pumpkin

Steam the pumpkin for few min and let it cool before we mash it.

Nice pumpkin puree

Ready to bake!

End product

Close up shot of the texture (The bread contains chopped walnuts and chocolate chips)

I've omitted out the cream cheese filling. This recipe is good for pumpkin lover. :)

Recipe at Joy of Baking - Pumpkin Bread.

Tea caramel muffins

Wanted to try out Laura Vitale's Chai Tea muffin but unfortunately I couldn't find any Chai in any supermarkets. (While typing, I just remembered that I actually could try my luck at Mustafa, haha!) Chai is simply the word for “tea” in Hindi.

Anyways, everything is still the same except I'd tweaked the recipe by just substituting the Chai to caramel tea and pumpkin spice to mixed spice.

Caramel tea

It can be used in all cakes, muffins, puddings.

Recipe and method adapted by Laura Vitale

12 servings

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of All Purpose Flour 
• 2 tsp of Baking Powder 
• ½ tsp of Baking Soda 
• ½ tsp of Salt 
• ¾ cup of Granulated Sugar (I put ½ cup instead of ¾)
• 1 tsp of Mixed Spice 
• ¼ cup of Vegetable Oil 
• 1 Tsp of Vanilla Extract 
• 1 ¼ cup of Milk 
• 4 Caramel Tea Bags 
• 2 Eggs 
• ¾ cup of Chopped Walnuts, toasted

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 175°C, line 2 muffin tin with 18 liners and set aside. 
• In a small saucepan, add the milk and bring it to a simmer, turn the heat off and add the tea bags, allow it to steep for 5 minutes. 
• Squeeze out the tea bags and discard. 
• In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and mixed spice, set aside. 
• In a small bowl, add the walnuts and ½ cup of the dry ingredients, toss the walnuts around to make sure they are all coated in the dry mixture. 
• In another large bowl, using a hand held electric mixer, whisk together the sugar, eggs, vegetable oil and vanilla extract. 
• Pour the wet ingredients into the dry and continue to mix with your mixer wile streaming in the caramel tea milk mixture. Fold in the walnuts and mix through just until they are evenly distributed. 
• Divide the batter evenly among-st the lined muffin tins and bake for about 20 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center. Cool completely on a wire rack.

add the tea bags into the simmering milk and allow it to steep for about 5 min

some toasted walnuts to be mix into the batter, to have the crunchy bite.

Oops! Just a peek. :P

Tea caramel muffins

Overall verdict of this slightly tweaked recipe, it tasted quite nice. A little caramel, a little sweet and I love the walnuts hiding inside. <3

Enjoy!