Pumpkin Ribbon Bread

By Addie

A pretty pumpkin bread with a ribbon of cream cheese inside.

Ingredients

• Filling:
• 2 pkgs. (3 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1 Tblsp. flour
• 1 egg
• 2 tsp. grated orange peel
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• Bread:
• 1 cup cooked pumpkin
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 2 eggs
• 1-1/2 cups sugar
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cloves
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1-2/3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 cup chopped pecans

Preparation

Step 1

For filling, beat cream cheese, sugar, and flour together in a small bowl. Add egg; mix to blend. Stir in orange peel; set aside.

Make bread by combining pumpkin, oil and eggs in large bowl. Add sugar, salt, cloves, cinnamon, flour, baking soda and pecans; mix to blend. Pour one quarter of batter into two greased and floured 7-1/2 x 3-1/2 x 3 inch loaf pans. Carefully spread the cream cheese mixture over the batter. Add remaining batter, covering filling. Bake at 325 for 1-1/2 hours or until bread tests done with a wooden pick. Cool 10 minutes before removing from pans. Store in refrigerator.

This was the grand prize winner in the Quick Breads Contest in Country Woman, Nov./Dec., 1987. The cook, Cathy Van Sickle, from Kokomo, Indiana, says that you don't have to worry about keeping the cream cheese layer away from the edges of the pan -- the flour and egg that are added help it bake up and handle beautifully.