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Cathy’s Pumpkin Bread
1 cup all purpose flour
1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
2 tsp. baking soda
2 tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
¾ cup canola oil
¼ cup + 2 Tbsps Lighter Bake (fat replacement by Sunsweet)
1 ¾ cup sugar
2 eggs (preferably omega 3 fortified)
½ cup egg substitute
2 ¼ cups canned pumpkin
¾ cup raisins
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift dry ingredients several times together. In separate bowl, combine sugar, Lighter Bake, and oil and mix well. Mix dry ingredients into oil-sugar mixture. Add eggs, pumpkin and raisins. Pour into greased loaf pans; bake at 350 degrees for 55 minutes or until cake tester inserted in center of loaves comes out clean. Makes two loaves.