“Delicious Pumpkin Bread” recipe lacks depth of flavor

By Connor Kropschot

Staff Writer

 

The “Delicious Pumpkin Bread” on allrecipes.com is an uncomplicated and delicious Halloween treat.

With a quick prep time and easy baking instructions, this pumpkin bread recipe differentiates itself from other traditional recipes. Although the recipe tastes a little too sweet due to its slight lack of spices, it produces a flavorful, moist pumpkin bread. The recipe has an easy to follow step-by-step instructions with options for the baker to add raisins or walnuts to enhance the fall flavor.

The “Delicious Pumpkin Bread” recipe can be found on allrecipes.com. It is highly recommended, boasting five-star ratings, and it is featured on the website as a go-to Halloween recipe. Allrecipies.com is a renound cooking website where amateur and professional chefs alike can post their recipies for all to enjoy.

The recipe calls for three and one-fourth cups all purpose flour, three cups white sugar, two teaspoons baking soda, one and a half teaspoons salt, one teaspoon ground cinnamon, two cups pumpkin puree, two thirds of a cup of water, one cup vegetable oil, four eggs, and an optional one-half cup chopped walnuts or raisins.

This bread is easily  accessible to make for anyone, as it lists many household items for ingredients for convenient use. The recipe also isn’t overly extensive, and provides the perfect amount of basic ingredients so the bread coming out moist and delicious.

If the ingredients aren’t readily accessible try this other OnceuponaChef’s recipe for Pumpkin Bread.

Although the ingredient list may be simple, this is overall detrimental to the dynamics of the bread’s flavors. Since the recipe uses such bland household products, spices tend to lack and cause the recipe to be monotonous. Though it has cinnamon, the sugar overpowers any other flavor. Overall, the bread could have incorporated cloves or allspice to help retract from the sugary flavor.

Another fault in the recipe itself is the use of oil. The large amounts of oil required help retain the bread’s moisture texture, but can create a greasy consistency.  Even though the bread doesn’t loose any sponginess from the minute it comes out of the oven to days later, the same result could have been found with a lighter measurement of oil.

Photos of the delicious pumpkin bread can be found here.

The recipe could also be literally restructured in an order to ease the cooking process and make the recipe flow more. The instructions seem to fall out of place and can be hard to follow, making the baking process tougher than needed. If the goal of the making of this bread is to be simple and procedural, the list needs to be constructed differently.  

Overall, with some add ons to the recipe this is a delicious Pumpkin bread, that’s delectable and quick to make.

The Delicious Pumpkin Bread recipe can be found on allrecipes.com for free.