Earth Bread

loof's Note:

A wonderful full-flavored bread - great with honey- or cinnamon-butter!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Yield: 2 loaves

• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups whole wheat flour
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup finely grated zucchini
• 1/2 cup finely grated carrot
• 1/2 cup mashed ripe banana
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans or 1/2 cup walnuts

Directions:

1. Combine the sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla in a large bowl.
2. Sift the whole wheat flour, all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and cinnamon in a medium bowl and mix well.
3. Add flour mixture to oil mixture, stirring until blended. Stir in the zucchini, carrots, banana, and nuts.
4. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 5x9 loaf pans. Bake at 375 degrees for 55-60 minutes. Invert onto a wire rack to cool.

Reviews

[Katzen]

Fantastic bread - I love the combination of all of the different good for you stuff, plus whole wheat flour, too. Very versitisle, too, as I only grated up 1/2 cup zucchini and when I realized it, I had already put the grater away, so I substituted an extra 1/2 cup banana, which worked perfect. I also took another reviewer's suggestion and subbed out half the oil with applesauce. I took this to a meeting this morning and it got wonderful reviews! Served it with Cinnamon Honey Butter. Thanks, loof, for the excellent recipe! Made for Zaar Stars.

[Happy Harry #2]

Don't know where my head was but I though I had already reviewed this wonderful recipe...well here goes! My favorite thing about this bread was that it was not as heavy as I though it was going to be. Things I make with whole wheat seem that way to me. I made two loaves, cutting my oil in half and replacing it with applesauce. The only thing different was to replace the pumpkin spice with Chinese Five Spice Blend. I interchange them in many recipes. Will be making this again!

[pammyowl]

This was very good! I cut the recipe in half to make only one loaf and used two eggs, rather than one and a half! I also changed the sugar. I used 1/2 cup brown sugar and 1/4 cup white,so I cut the amount down by 1/4. For the nuts I used Macadamia. Thanks for sharing, loof!