Pumpkin Bread (GAPS, LOD)

It’s a great time of year for pumpkin bread!  

I have been playing with using some of my Be Young Essential Oils to cook with to reduce the oxalate content in my foods.  Spices can pack quite a punch when it comes to oxalate content.  The ground spices alone add nearly 80 mg of oxalate to this loaf of bread. Using essential oils however eliminates those oxalates and allows me to flavor my foods with otherwise off limits spices.

Of course you must use caution and only use essential oils that are safe for internal use like the ones produced by Be Young. Also many essential oils are diluted but sold as pure (this is legal to do) and will not preform the same in this recipe. Be Young makes it very easy to get their oils at a discount.  See this page for more details if you want to order them. Be Young Essential Oils.  

• 1/2 cup cooked plain pumpkin or winter squash (I use frozen butternut squash, it tastes the same as pumpkin!)
• 1/2 cup butter or Coconut Oil, melted
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 TBSP Vanilla Extract
• 1-2 drops Be Young Cinnamon Essential Oil or 1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
• 1 drop Be Young Clove Essential Oil or 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 8 eggs
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 3/4 cup Coconut Flour
• 1/4 tsp Baking Soda
• 1/2 cup crispy nuts or chocolate chips (optional not LOD)

Preheat Oven to 325

Using a blender or hand mixer blend together the pumpkin, melted butter, honey, vanilla extract, essential oils and eggs.  Once those are well blended sift in the coconut flour, baking soda and salt.  Mix thoroughly. If adding nuts or chocolate chips stir them in at this point.

Vitamix Instructions: For those who have a Vitamix. I put the frozen squash, stick of butter (not melted), honey, and vanilla  into the vitamix and let it go until the machine has thawed the frozen squash and melted the butter.  This takes 5 minutes or longer.  I have even done it with frozen butter.  Then add the rest of the ingredients in the order listed blending after each one.  I you pour it quickly into the bread pan before the coconut flour has a chance to thicken it will clean up more easily.  

Pour into a greased 9x5x3 in loaf pan.  I like to put a small piece of Parchment Paperlining the bottom of the pan and grease both sides of it.  That seems to make a big difference in getting the bread out intact at the end of baking.   

Bake for 50-60 min.  It is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Turn out of the pan and cool on a rack before slicing.  

Serve slathered with lots of good grassfed butter.  Yummy!

Shared at The Liberated Kitchen’s GAPS Friendly Fridays #15

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