Bread- Pumpkin Bread...yummy all year!!

This is very similar to the Pumpkin Bread you can get at Starbucks and a heck of a lot cheaper than 3.50 a slice everytime you go! When my babies won't eat anything else I can count on them eating this and yes....it has quite a bit of sugar but I justify that with the whole wheat flour...hehe
I sometimes cut the sugar by a cup and it still comes out tasting Yummy...We just had some for breakfast!

Yummy Pumpkin Bread!!

• 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup canola oil
• 2/3 cup water
• 3 cups white sugar
• 3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
  
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour three 7x3 inch loaf pans.
2. In a large bowl, mix together pumpkin puree, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger. Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just blended. Pour into the prepared pans.
3. Bake for about 60 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. (time can vary...sometime it takes 70 minutes to be done...I have a gas oven)