Cream Cheese-Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

• 1.5 teaspoons baking soda 
• 4 large eggs 
• 3.5 cups flour all-purpose
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg 
• 2 cups pumpkin unsweetened canned
• 0.5 teaspoon salt 
• 3 cups sugar 
• 1 cup vegetable oil 
• 0.7 cup water 

Equipment

• bowl
• frying pan
• oven
• whisk
• wire rack
• loaf pan

Directions

1. Stir together 3 1/2 cups flour, sugar, and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl.
2. Whisk together pumpkin and next 3 ingredients; add to flour mixture, whisking just until dry ingredients are moistened. Spoon 3 cups of batter into each of 2 greased and floured 9- x 5-inch loaf pans. Spoon Cream Cheese Filling evenly over batter. Spoon remaining batter evenly over Cream Cheese Filling.
3. Bake at 350 for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of bread comes out clean.
4. Let cool in pans 10 minutes.
5. Remove bread from pan, and cool completely on a wire rack.