Today we have Caris Roane on talking about her awesome Winter Blog Tour Giveaway and sharing a holiday recipe.
Hi, everyone! I want to thank THE BOOK READING GALS for having me here today on the ANNUAL HOLIDAY RECIPE & TRADITION EXCHANGE. In addition to sharing one of my favorite holiday recipes, I’m also sharing about my soon-to-be-released vampire romance novel, GATES OF RAPTURE, as part of my WARM UP YOUR WINTER BLOG TOUR. As the sixth installment of my Guardians of Ascension series, I’m super excited about introducing you to my most beloved winged vampire warriors, and there will be a few tid-bits following the recipe I’ve included here today. I also have goodies for you to win, including a Grand Prize Nook with Glowlight, details to follow!
I have wonderful holiday memories, mostly focused on our family’s Christmas Day celebrations – the exchange of gifts, going to the movies to see the December 25th latest blockbuster release, and of course food and more food!
The recipe I decided to share here today is part of the brunch I prepare for my family before the presents get opened. We’ve had this as a tradition for a couple of decades now and my family loves it. The brunch menu is as follows: a tater tot casserole, yogurt fruit salad, homemade pumpkin bread, and crispy bacon.
For today’s Holiday Recipe Exchange, I’m sharing my super-moist, pumpkin bread recipe!
Pumpkin Bread (very moist)
Preparations and baking time:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Bake time: 1 hour and 15 minutes approximately
Lightly butter and flour a glass loaf pan (for metal, figure time and heat conversion)
Makes 1 loaf – double the recipe for two…
1 ½ Cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon cloves
2 teaspoons cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
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1 ½ Cups sugar
½ Cup vegetable oil
1 ½ eggs, beaten
8 oz. canned pumpkin
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½ Cup raisins, steeped in warm water
½ Cup chopped walnuts
In smaller bowl, sift dry ingredients together. In a separate, larger bowl, blend sugar, oil and eggs. Alternately, in small batches each time, add pumpkin and dry ingredients, blending thoroughly between. Fold in nuts and raisins.
Pour batter into the loaf pan. Bake for allotted time but test toward the end until a thin knife inserted deep into the middle of the loaf comes out clean. Remove from oven. Let cool in the pan, on a rack, for 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, turn the loaf out onto the rack. Let it cool at least a little bit before diving in! This is a wonderful, rich, and very moist recipe that my family has loved for years. Here’s a trick: The key to raisins in just about any baked goods recipe is steeping them in warm water so that they plump up before putting them in any kind of batter.
Enjoy!
My current release, GATES OF RAPTURE (12/24), is the sixth installment of Guardians of Ascension and features Warrior Leto, a famous, ancient Warrior of the Blood, six-six, long straight black hair, piercing blue eyes, and built to battle death vampires for centuries, not to mention drive the ladies crazy! So yummy! Romantic Times Magazine gave GATES OF RAPTURE a 4 ½ Star, TOP PICK review! I couldn’t be happier!
To Learn More about Gates of Rapture and to read the opening chapter: CLICK HERE!!!
To Pre-Order GATES OF RAPTURE Amazon Barnes & Noble iTunes
Here are the giveaway details (all international with appropriate compensatory prizes as needed): On each stop of the tour, I’ll be giving away the same awesome collection of prizes as listed on the Rafflecopter form, so be sure to stop by each blog on the tour for a chance to win at each blog. Be careful to follow the directions on the Rafflecopter form at each site. And be very careful of the dates! The contest at each site will last 3 days only, and those dates will be listed on the Rafflecopter form as well!!!
For links to all the other blogs on the tour: CLICK HERE!!!
The Grand Prize Drawing – VERY IMPORTANT: to be eligible for the Grand Prize drawing of the Nook with Glowlight, you must leave a comment at the bottom of this blog (as well as at all the sites on the tour if you want to go to every site and enter that many times—totally up to you! But comments must be left!) The grand prize drawing will be selected by random.org in the following manner. On January 18th, three days after the tour ends, I will enter the number of blogsites into the random number generator, which will deliver up the winning site. I will then go to the winning site, count up the comments one by one, and enter that number into random.org. Random.org will then provide the Grand Prize winning number matched to the comments on the winning blogsite. This means, that if you travel to all the blogs on this tour, you can enter the GRAND PRIZE contest on every single blog you visit by leaving a comment at each blogsite! Good luck to all!
The Goodies as listed on the Rafflecopter form are : a $10 gift card to Barnes & Noble (or similar for International), a replica, antique typewriter key bracelet that spells ‘dream’, a signed copy of ASCENSION (the first novel in the Guardians of Ascension series), Romance Trading Cards and bookmarks.
The Grand Prize drawing for a Nook with Glowlight, will take place on January 18th, three days after the tour officially ends! Good luck!
For links to all the other blogs on the tour: CLICK HERE!!!
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TO FIND CARIS ROANE ON THE WEB…
Website Home Page: www.carisroane.com
Twitter handle: @carisroane
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/caris.roane
Email: carisroane@gmail.com
Again, to be eligible for the Nook with Glowlight, leave a comment below like this: carisroane at gmail dot com! Good luck to all!
a Rafflecopter giveaway
Hi, Everyone!
I’m so happy to be here at the Book Reading Gals blogsite! Holiday recipes, yum! I’ll be here throughout the day, checking in to see how you’re all doing!
Have a wonderful day!
Caris
Thanks for this wonderful recipe, I have your books on my wishlist, and hope to get to them next year. Good luck with the rest of the tour!
auriansbooks at gmail dot com
This Pumpkin Bread must be yummy! I could live only with bread.
Thank you for the giveaway!
Winged vampire heroes sounds perfect to have for the holidays!
I like the chopped walnuts in your pumking bread recipe. Nuts are yummy in breads and cakes.
Cambonified(at)yahoo(dot)com
Hi, again, everyone!
This is the best pumpkin bread recipe! You’ll love it!
And my winged vampire warriors have my heart! I hope they steal yours as well!
Hugs,
Caris
Hi, Caris! Congratulations on your new release! Whoo-hoo! Thank you for sharing that tummy recipe!
Thanks, Chelsea!
Hope you enjoy my winged vampire warriors, or at the very least my pumpkin bread, lol!
Happy holidays, Everyone!
Hugs,
Caris
The recipe sounds tasty.
bn100candg(at)hotmail(dot)com
would Love to win & read! LOVE your work! PICK ME!!
Love the warriors! So, glad a friend introduced me to this wonderful series!
paranormalbookreviews (at) gmail (dot) com
Thank you for the pumpkin bread recipe.
bituin76 at hotmail dot com
And now I’m hungry! I absolutely love anything pumpkin. Pie, cookies, bread, pastries, coffee…anything.
AquarianDancer at gmail dot com
Hey,
I love the Pumpkin bread recipe. When my family gets together on Christmas Eve to open presents, we have what we call cold plates, small squares of bread, different sandwhich fixings and deserts.
Hi, everyone! We have a Rafflecopter winner for the goodies as listed in the Rafflecopter form! Congratulations: ARTEMIS!
I’ve sent you an email and we’ll get things set up to get your goodies in the mail!
Remember to keep working this tour backwards for the Nook drawing and forwards for more Rafflecopter goodies as well as more chances to enter for the Nook!
Happy holidays!
Hugs all around!
Caris
Happy Holidays,the pumpkin bread looks delicious.Thanks for the giveaway.
dragonkeep62@gmail.com
I love pumpkin bread! I actually enjoy baking.. cooking, yeah that I can do without but baking? There is just something soothing about it.
Shauni
swimmom_2@yahoo.com
Love the series need to try that Pumpkin bread sounds real good!! cano.melissa01@gmail.com
Can’t wait til the 24th!! cano dot melissa01 at gmail dot com
Can’t wait for the release day! Awesome series!
Forgot include my email address.
lizsemkiu at gmail dot com
Congrats to the rafflecopter winner. Count me in for the grand prize, please. I’m enjoying backtracking through the tour.
catherinelee100 at gmail dot com
I love pumpkin bread, so I’ll have to try your recipe.
jmcgaugh at semo dot edu
Love this series. I started reading it when the very first one was released and have waiting impatiently for each new book. A wonderful new, unique world for the vampire genre.
Thanks for the chance to win!
Sounds like an awesome series!
natasha_donohoo_8 at hotmail dot com
Sexy, winged vampire warriors…..that is all
Thanks for the awesome contest!
Sounds like a great series!
thompsonem3 at aol dot com
Vampires and wings and passion and drama
alinutza4u2004[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk