Butternut Squash Bread

This deliciously moist butternut squash bread flavored with cinnamon and cloves has chopped walnuts and raisins in every bite.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins
• Calories: 254 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 cups pureed cooked butternut squash
• 1.5 teaspoons salt
• 0.66666668653488 cup water
• 0.66666668653488 cup shortening
• 2.6666667461395 cups white sugar
• 0.66666668653488 cup chopped walnuts
• 0.66666668653488 cup raisins
• 3.3333332538605 cups all-purpose flour

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.

Step 2

Beat sugar and butter together in a bowl until fluffy. Stir butternut squash, eggs, and water into sugar mixture.

Step 3

Mix flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, and ground cloves in another bowl; stir into sugar mixture. Add walnuts and raisins; stir until batter is just blended. Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.

Step 4

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour. Cool in the pans briefly before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.