Double Decker Pumpkin Bread

I love all things pumpkin and I love to make it all year long, not only in the fall.  This bread is a great way to get my pumpkin fix!  The bread is filled with spicy pumpkin flavor and the cream cheese is a nice creamy filling that complements the pumpkin.   It fills the house with delicious pumpkin smells and making these in a mini loaf pan makes this easy to share!  Even if you don't have mini loaf pans you can make this in a regular sized pan - just increase the cook time.

Double Decker Pumpkin Bread

Recipe from How Sweet It Is

1 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 cup canned pumpkin

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 teaspoon vanilla

3/4 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven 350 degrees.

Mix together pumpkin and sugars together until fluffy.  Add eggs one at a time, then mix in vanilla and oil.  Combine dry ingredients in a bowl.  Alternately add in dry ingredients and buttermilk, starting and ending with dry ingredients.  Pour into mini loaf pans halfway to the top.  Spread a third of the cream cheese mixture over the batter and cover with more pumpkin batter until it reaches about a 1/2 inch to the top.  

Bake 35 - 40 minutes.  Cool 15 minutes in pan before turning out onto rack.

Cream Cheese Mixture

8 ounces softened cream cheese

2 Tablespoons sugar

1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

Mix together all ingredients until well combined.

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Ben & Jerry's Pumpkin Ice Cream

They say that ice cream sales go up in the winter, not sure they are but that's what my mother in law told me the other when we sitting outside of Golden Spoon bundled up in our coats! This isn't exactly the case in our house where my husband hasn't met a quart of Ben and Jerry's that he hasn't liked - and devoured in one sitting! Pumpkin is one of my favorite flavors year round so when I saw this recipe for Pumpkin Ice Cream I knew that I would be making it soon.

Ben & Jerry's Pumpkin Ice Cream
Makes 1 Quart

2 eggs

3/4 cup sugar

2 cups heavy cream

1 cup milk

1 cup pureed pumpkin

2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice

(I added about a 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon because I always feel like you can't have enough!)

Whisk the eggs until light and fluffy, about two minutes. Gradually whisk in the sugar until completely blended. Add in cream and milk and whisk.

Put about 1/2 of the milk mixture into a bowl and whisk in the pumpkin and spices. Add back to the pumpkin and mix until combined. Transfer to ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. This filled up my ice cream maker almost to overflowing which meant I needed to run it a little longer.

I also added some mini chocolate chips to half of the ice cream just to try it out and loved it!

I made this today and it totally made me forget the 2 1/2 hours at the Dentist!