Top LA Designer’s Favorite Holiday Recipes

One week till Halloween! Where has the time gone? It seems that we just enjoyed July fourth and now we are getting ready for the holidays.

Starting this week I will be sharing a series of my favorite fall recipes.

I recommend this great holiday recipe as one to make early and often. The small loaves of bread, sweet and moist, freeze beautifully and can be stored and used for entertaining and gift giving. Be certain to make extras as you will nibble your way through a loaf or two before you know it.

Pumpkin Bread

1 Cup Vegetable Oil
4 Cups Sugar
1 Large Can Pumpkin
4 Cups Flour
4 Teaspoons Soda
2 Teaspoons Cinamon
¾ Teaspoon Salt
2 Teaspoons Vanilla
8 oz. cut dates
8 oz. chopped walnuts

Mix oil, sugar, pumpkin and vanilla thoroughly. Add flour, salt, soda and cinnamon. Mix very well. Add dates and nuts and mix again.

Grease and flour 6 small loaf pans. Fill evenly.

Bake about one hour at 350 degrees or until toothpick comes out clean when inserted into the center of a loaf.

Cool and turn out of pans. Wrap in foil for storage or freezing.