Cranberry Pumpkin Pie Loaf

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Cranberry Pumpkin Pie Loaf is like a Pumpkin Pie with swirls of cranberry sauce baked into a “slice-able” dessert!

The other weekend I went out to eat with my BFF ,Nikki, and my god-daughters, Alyssa and Kendra, to the local Pizza Buffet. The restaurant was pretty busy and there were a few tables that hadn’t been cleaned off yet and were stacked high with plates and food.

While we were eating Alyssa and I started talking about all of these tables that were there with food left behind by recent customers. “It’s crazy, all of this food that’s just being wasted”, Alyssa said. And she was right, it was crazy. There is no telling how much food they toss away each day.

What does that have to do with this Cranberry Pumpkin Pie Loaf though? Well, it happens to have something to do with the ingredients that helped make that Cranberry Pumpkin Pie Loaf. When I was contacted to try out the Pacific items that you see in the photo below the conversation with Alyssa was fresh on my mind. When I was reading about the Pacific brand items and their Tetra Pak® cartons, I came across these facts: Tetra Pak® cartons are made of 70% paper, a renewable resource, from selectively harvested, re-grown trees that are FSC-certified (Forest Stewardship Council) and these cartons use 1/3 of the packaging compared to cans (or even eggs!)

Just think of the thousands and thousands of cans and cartons that get tossed into land fields everyday. These Tetra Pak® cartons are recyclable and result in 60% less landfill waste than cans! On a day that I was reminded of so much waste it was nice to check out a product that works towards reducing it!

I also have to say that I just love the cartons because they’re easier to stack in my pantry than cans. My house was built in probably the 40’s or 50’s and for some reason they didn’t think that anyone would ever need cabinet space. So I’m always “playing tetras” with my food to get it to fit. It’s much easier to stack boxes like this haha.

In order to give these a try, I chose the Pacific Foods Organic Pumpkin Puree and the Pacific Foods Organic Pumpkin Puree. After all, Thanksgiving is almost here and don’t those two scream “THANKSGIVING”?! Of course they do 🙂

What you’ll need:

2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking powder
1 stick of butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Box Pacific Organic Pumpkin Puree (16 oz)
1 Box Pacific Organic Jellied Cranberry Sauce (15 oz)

Cool Whip or Whipped Cream**optional

What to do:

Pre-heat oven to 350F.

In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar. Add in the eggs and the vanilla.

In another bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder.

Slowly add the flour mixture to the egg, sugar and butter mixture. Mix to combine. Add in the pumpkin puree. Mix well until combined.

Pour half of pumpkin batter into a loaf pan.

Add spoonfuls of Jellied Cranberry Sauce ontop of the pumpkin batter. Swirl with a knife.

Add the remaining pumpkin batter to the loaf pan. Add spoonfuls of Jellied Cranberry Sauce on top of the pumpkin batter. Swirl with a knife.

Bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until done.

(Consistency will be more like pie than bread!)

**Top with Cool Whip or Whipped Cream!

(Printable Recipe Here)

Cranberry Pumpkin Pie Loaf

Ingredients

2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 stick of butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Box Pacific Organic Pumpkin Puree (16 oz)
1 Box Pacific Organic Jellied Cranberry Sauce (15 oz)

Cool Whip or Whipped Cream**optional

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350F.

In a mixing bowl, cream together the butter and the sugar.

Add in the eggs and the vanilla.

In another bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder.

Slowly add the flour mixture to the egg, sugar and butter mixture.

Mix to combine. Add in the pumpkin puree.

Mix well until combined.

Pour half of pumpkin batter into a loaf pan.

Add spoonfuls of Jellied Cranberry Sauce on top of the pumpkin batter.

Swirl with a knife. Add the remaining pumpkin batter to the loaf pan.

Add spoonfuls of Jellied Cranberry Sauce on top of the pumpkin batter.

Swirl with a knife. Bake for 1 hour and 45 minutes or until done.

(Consistency will be more like pie than bread!)

**Top with Cool Whip or Whipped Cream!

Yields: 1 loaf

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