Pumpkin Combo!! – Pillsbury Pumpkin Bread w/Dickinson’s Pumpkin Butter

Starring Roles: Pillsbury Pumpkin Quick Bread, Dickinson’s Country Pumpkin Butter
Motivation: bread meets butter – it just seemed like magic
Flavor Combo: LOTS of pumpkin!  Said pumpkin butter actually more closely resembles some sort of pumpkin jam or preserves, for whatever that’s worth…
Combo Verdict: Better, but still not awesomely amazing.  Instead of truly melding their two flavors, I think the butter did more to merely remind me just how not moist the bread actually turned out.  And frankly, I’m not really sure what else could’ve been done to make the by the box recipe any differently, aside from possibly using jumbo instead of large eggs or maybe a different, higher-quality brand of oil.  That said, while the bread didn’t really deliver, the butter has to take some of the blame as well for this combo failure because it’s still running at less than spectacular also…

Pumpkin Bread-Maker Call-Out: Have you made truly spectacular pumpkin bread with your own bare hands?!  Something that just screams moist, delicious pumpkin with every bite?  If so, do help a fellow pumpkin aficionado out and drop me a line with the recipe so I can give it a truly for myself!  Please don’t let me go through this entire season without enjoying a truly great pumpkin bread…