I have this fabulous pumpkin bread recipe. It makes 2 loaves, but it has 2 cups of sugar. I would like to replace the sugar with maybe honey. I definitely don't want to put 2 cups of honey in this recipe. Any thoughts on how much to use? Or other ideas would be great too.
Here's the recipe from Whole Foods for the Whole Family.
1 C. cooked mashed pumpkin 1/2 C. oil 1/2 C. honey 2 eggs 1 3/4 C. whole wheat flour or 1 C. whole wheat and 3/4 C. unbleached flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 to 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/3 C. water 1/2 C. chopped nuts (optional) Oil or butter for greasing Cream cheese (optional) Honey (optional)
1. Beat oil and honey together in bowl; mix well. 2. Combine dry ingredients in another bowl. 3. Add dry ingredients and water to honey mixture. 4. Mix in pumpkin and nuts. 5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. {Should be step #1} 6. Grease loaf pan with oil or butter or put cupcake liners into muffin pans. 7. Spoon in batter. 8. Bake for 1 hour for loaf, or 20 to 25 minutes for cupcakes. 9. Remove pumpkin bread from oven using potholders; put on cooling rack; cool loaf for 15 minutes before inverting to take it out of pan. 10. If you like, ice with cream cheese thinned with honey or try peanut butter frosting.
You know what's funny, I was SURE that I had made a recipe from Whole Foods for the Whole Family, but when I looked at the index in the back of the book, I couldn't find the recipe, so I posted the other recipe that I use which is from Rodale's Basic Natural Foods Cookbook.
Blessings,
Lori
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Originally posted by schoolmom: I have this fabulous pumpkin bread recipe. It makes 2 loaves, but it has 2 cups of sugar. I would like to replace the sugar with maybe honey. I definitely don't want to put 2 cups of honey in this recipe. Any thoughts on how much to use? Or other ideas would be great too.
Thanks, Kathy
Here's the recipe from Whole Foods for the Whole Family.
1 C. cooked mashed pumpkin 1/2 C. oil 1/2 C. honey 2 eggs 1 3/4 C. whole wheat flour or 1 C. whole wheat and 3/4 C. unbleached flour 1 tsp. baking soda 1 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 to 1 tsp. cinnamon 1/4 to 1/2 tsp. nutmeg 1/3 C. water 1/2 C. chopped nuts (optional) Oil or butter for greasing Cream cheese (optional) Honey (optional)
1. Beat oil and honey together in bowl; mix well. 2. Combine dry ingredients in another bowl. 3. Add dry ingredients and water to honey mixture. 4. Mix in pumpkin and nuts. 5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. {Should be step #1} 6. Grease loaf pan with oil or butter or put cupcake liners into muffin pans. 7. Spoon in batter. 8. Bake for 1 hour for loaf, or 20 to 25 minutes for cupcakes. 9. Remove pumpkin bread from oven using potholders; put on cooling rack; cool loaf for 15 minutes before inverting to take it out of pan. 10. If you like, ice with cream cheese thinned with honey or try peanut butter frosting.
The Atlanta Journal has started having a section called "Better Health" every wednesday. Today they had an article about sugar vs sugar alternatives. Here is what they had to say about honey: "A bit sweeter than sugar, so you can use a little less. It has 22 calories per teaspoon compared to sugar's 15. But honey, especially dark honey, provides the same antioxidant punch as many fruits and vegetables."
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Originally posted by schoolmom: Thanks all! I'm not really looking to lower the calories so much. I'm just trying to move towards less processed foods.
Kathy
Kathy,
I know that this is your goal....I would start with 1 cup of honey. When I've changed recipes from using sugar or brown sugar to honey, I always start with half the amount of honey to the sugar/brown sugar. This formula works well for me....you may find that you'll need to cut back on the milk a bit with using a liquid sweetener.
Blessings,
Lori
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Originally posted by schoolmom: Thanks all! I'm not really looking to lower the calories so much. I'm just trying to move towards less processed foods.
Kathy
You can use unprocessed, unrefined cane sugar in your recipe.
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I agree with Denise about not using honey because it's just as caloric and may mess up the consistency. I too would play with reducing the amount of sugar by 25% and seeing how it goes from there. You could also do a sugar/splenda blend.
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Originally posted by schoolmom: I have this fabulous pumpkin bread recipe. It makes 2 loaves, but it has 2 cups of sugar. I would like to replace the sugar with maybe honey.
Honey will NOT make it lower in cals... and might throw off the dry to wet ratio.
I've found that I can reduce sugar (and oil/fat) by about 25% and not really compromise the recipe. (I saw KD recomend that some place.)
Try it with 1.5 cups of sugar and see how you like the recipe.
Sometimes it is also better to just leave a fabulous family recipe alone and make it once a year.
Denise
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