Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Thank You Food Gift Part 2: Pumpkin Spice Bread

As I chronicled earlier, I was still delinquent in making a thank you gift for our neighbor Missy, who had graciously put together a delicious dinner for us on our first night in our new home.

I had initially made her a lemon tart, but that proved to be too tempting for my mother to resist and it never made it out of the house.
Not wanting the same thing to happen again, I took things in a different direction and decided to make an autumnal bread that would work for dessert, but also breakfast, toasted and slathered with butter or cream cheese.

I had just gotten a wonderful new cookbook called The Craft of Baking