Still using up my pumpkins...try this for Thanksgiving day dessert.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees- serves 8
This is a dessert so do not consider it a daily event- if you want it to be a mildly sweet bread, use the loaf pan, a little more flour and less sweetener. Allow the bread to cool completely before serving it cut into thick slices or it will be a crumbly mess- still tasty though!
dry ingredients:
1 ¼ cups mixed non-gluten flours
(a mix of rice, buckwheat, oat, millet, quinoa, chestnut, coconut, and/or sorghum can be used)
3 teaspoons Egg Replacer or two Tablespoons ground flax seeds with 6 Tablespoons water soaked for 10 minutes until thick
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
or, 2 teaspoons ground allspice- don't use cinnamon if you are reactive to it!
optional: ½ cup broken pecans or walnuts
wet ingredients:
3 cups mashed or blended cooked pumpkin or other winter squash
¼ cup sunflower or other allowable oil
1 teaspoon orange extract (or vanilla if you don’t have it and use ¼ teaspoon orange zest)
3-5 Tablespoons of orange juice if you have it – or cider or other fruit juice
1/3 cup dark or regular agave nectar (or ½ cup xylitol, or use stevia to taste)
1 teaspoon oil for greasing pan
In large bowl stir all dry ingredients until uniform in color. Mix wet ingredients in separate bowl. Blend wet ingredients into dry until thoroughly mixed. It should be gloppy not runny in texture. If it is too dry add a little more fruit juice, if too wet, add a little more flour at a time until it is thick enough. Not all cooked pumpkin is the same wetness! Turn into 9 inch loaf pan or a casserole dish- it won’t expand much beyond the batter volume.
Bake in oven for 35- 50 minutes (use a longer time in loaf pan) or until toothpick comes out clean and edges pull away from the sides of the pan. The finished cake/bread should be soft in the middle, but not gooey. It is almost like a pumpkin pie filling without the crust.