Pumpkin is one of my favorite ingredient to use in bread baking. And i´m proud to announce that i´m among ten classified baker´s to a national brazilian magazine called Padaria 2000 Baking Top Contest. I joined the contest last June exactly with my version of Cinnamon Raisin Pumpkin Bread and it was choosed to represent my name beside 9 other bakers from whole Brazil. It´s sweet dough leavened with instant yeast and baking pwder, flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg, filled with fresh whole mashed pumpkin and some walnut and raisins! At Brazil, pumpkin was always a historical ingredient so it was consumed by indigens since before Portuguese colonization started here at 1500´s. So we brazilians love a lot ABÓBORAS the name we know pumpkins here.I´m ready to represent my city Petrópolis at the contest next october 27th at São Paulo. I love all these amazing recipes with pumpkin you´ve always published at this blog. Here is a link to my classification at Bakery (Panificação ): Wish one day i could share my recipe of pumpkin bread with you !!! That is great news Ricardo! Congratulations to you. Very impressive and you must be so proud for profiling pumpkin, obviously a pretty important crop for Brazil! Good luck to you and we are pleased you are so inspired by our pumpkin recipes too. Elisabeth@KAF

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