Coffee Can Pumpkin Bread!

As it turns out, a perfectly acceptable way to bake a delicious fruit/vegetable-infused bread, a.k.a. a cake that looks like bread, is in a metal coffee can. Now I don't know about you, heck, I hardly know you, but for a while now I have been getting my coffee from bags. That isn't going to cut it. That behavior must stop right this instant because Coffee Can Pumpkin Bread seems like the cheapest way to package a fairly nice and extremely inexpensive Christmas/Chanukah/Kwanzaa/Thanksgiving/Oktoberfest kind of present for your aunts. Do you usually buy your aunts presents? Well now is a good time to start. Just my opinion, but it's true.
From this dainty website, here: http://www.squidoo.com/coffee-can-pumpkin-bread comes a recipe that is bound to make pretty much anyone who enjoys pumpkin bread smile. Plus it's presliced. Or it looks like it tells you where to slice. Either way.

Ingredients

2 Cups of cooked prepared pumpkin (or 1 can works too)
or 1 large can pumpkin, drained
3 cups Sugar
1 cup canola or rapeseed
or extra light virgin olive oil
3 eggs
3 cups flour
1 cup raisins
1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
1 tsp each of
cloves
allspice
salt
baking powder
baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
 3 empty METAL coffee cans
(don't make the mistake of anything plastic. Toxic, toxic.)

Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour three (13 oz.) coffee cans (or two standard bread pans).
In a large bowl, mix sugar and oil and add eggs one at a time. Set this mixture aside.
Sift flour and all spices together.
Add flour mixture and pumpkin alternately to the sugar/oil mixture. Mix just enough to moisten all the dry ingredients; It's better if you don't overbeat. Lastly, add raisins and/or walnuts and/or pecans.
Pour mixture into the 3 coffee cans. Stir a bit when mixture is in the cans to avoid air bubbles.
Cover loosely with foil.
Bake at 350 degrees for 70-80 minutes.
Cool for 10 minutes before loosening from cans or pans.

Serve with Coffee and/or Ice Cream or whipped cream. Or okay, whatever the hell you want to serve it with. Makes about 24 slices.

The idea has apparently been around for ages, and works with banana bread, zucchini bread, sandwich bread ... mmmmmmmmmm.

 Enjoy!