World's Best Pumpkin Streusel Bread (cooking Light)

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1/4 cup chopped pecans
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons chilled butter or 1 1/2 tablespoons stick margarine, cut into small pieces
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional) or 1/2 cup dried cranberries (optional)
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 cup canned pumpkin
• 1/2 cup plain low-fat yogurt
• 1/4-1/2 cup brown sugar (depending on how sweet you want it) or 1/4-1/2 cup honey (depending on how sweet you want it)
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°. to prepare topping, combine first 4 ingredients until crumbly. set the mixture aside.
• 2 to prepare bread, lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. combine flour and the next 7 ingredients (flour through nutmeg) in a large bowl; stir well with a whisk. make a well in center of mixture. combine the pumpkin and next 5 ingredients (pumpkin through eggs) in a bowl; add to flour mixture. stir just until moist.
• 3 spoon batter into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle with topping.
• 4 bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. cool completely on wire rack.