Tried a new recipe today, spiced pumpkin loaf. I was going to halve it but since I had lots of pumpkin to use up (I had opened a can a week ago and wanted to finish it) decided to make the full recipe keeping one loaf for myself and giving one loaf away.

Sorry, person who I was going to share my baking with. Won't be happening. I pulled it out of the oven twenty minutes early because it was getting that "too cooked" smell. Did the press-touch test and it wasn't too far off from fully cooked, so turned the oven off and left the loaves inside to cook just a little bit longer.

Just opened the oven, now, to check on them and they have totally fallen flat! The bottoms are over cooked and the inside is undercooked! What the what?

Maybe the recipe had the oven temperature wrong? Aren't most breads cooked at 350?


Nothing like a huge fail to make you feel like a 10 year old novice again...