Harvest Festival

We celebrated Harvest Festival this week by painting our pumpkins using watercolours...

and baking Spiced Pumpkin Bread.

Find our paintings and work on our individual Blog posts.

Then we got to eat it. Delicious!

Try our Bread recipe at home. 
Tell us if you like it!

Pumpkin Spiced Bread Recipe

Ingredients

1¾ cups flour

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

½ tsp ground cinnamon

¼ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp ginger

2 eggs beaten

1 cup pumpkin puree

50 g butter

¼ cup vegetable oil

1½ cups brown sugar

2/3 cup water

Directions

1.    Preheat oven to 160 deg C on fan bake. Lightly grease one 23 x 13cm loaf pan.

2.  Combine 1¾ cups of flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger in a large bowl and set aside.

3.  Beat the pumpkin puree, eggs, butter, vegetable oil, 1½ cups brown sugar and 2/3 cup water until well blended.

4.  Gently combine the flour mixture with the pumpkin mixture.

5.  Pour into the prepared pan and bake for 45 to 50 minutes.

6.  Allow to cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then transfer to wire rack to cool completely.