The holiday season is upon us and that means I will be baking my mother’s pumpkin bread recipe for gifting this season. I love to bake homemade gifts for our friends and that often means hours in the kitchen. I usually set a couple of days aside and just bake everything at once. Then I can create an assembly line for packaging up all the goodies and get them ready to deliver all at one time.
My mom wrote out the recipe for me years ago on a piece of paper. I keep it in a box of baking supplies in my pantry and every year, I pull it out to follow her recipe. I will share it below.
This recipe makes 2 large loaf pans or several mini loaf pans. I use aluminum mini loaf pans for gifting to my son’s teachers but for my neighbors and close friends, I found cute ceramic mini loaf dishes. They even came with a bread knife!
After they baked, I let them cool completely. To package them up, I wrapped patterned cellophane and tied it with candy cane stripe ribbon. I tied the bread knife to the outside of the package and finished it off with my free printable gift tag. So cute!
By the way, these loafs freeze really well so you can bake as many as you want and after they cool, just wrap them up and store in a freezer safe bag until you are ready to give them away. Just let them thaw on the counter until they are room temperature before wrapping them up. I like to keep a few on hand in the freezer and pull them out for hostess gifts a day before attending a party.
Merry Christmas, friends!
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Nicole Elliott ~ Client says
I love the idea of picking up a delicious, easy dinner to save time for holiday baking. That’s definitely right up my alley!
Lisa says
Where are those adorable loaf pans with a knife from? So cute!!
Amy Croushorn says
Hi Lisa! Thanks for asking. I got them from Swoozies 😉 Here is a link for you: http://shrsl.com/p0uj Hope that helps!