Addendum: Changed to 2 tsp of soda and this worked perfectly, no sunken middles. Also in one loaf I added 1 cup of chopped pecans and about 3/4 cup dried cranberries. It's OH SO Purdy. And the house smells divine. Although the other ones turned out sunken, they tasted great.------------------------------------------- I'm not sure why this works for some and not for others, but mine sunk in the middle and it was extremely disappointing after reading all the great reviews. I looked at other pumpkin bread recipes here and NO one uses 1 TABLESPOON of baking soda. I think that's a typo. Another popular pumpkin bread recipe makes 3 - 9x5 batches and only uses "1 tsp of soda". Kudos to those of you who got it to work without tweaking anything. :) I might try it again with less soda. It probably raised too fast without having enough substance to hold it up per the 1 TBLE of soda. Less might work better.

Reviewed On: Dec. 16, 2008

These are amazing! My first time making them and they turned out *perfect*. I decided to double the batch because they looked so cute. I added 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips to the 2nd half of the batch. Mmm mmm delicious. What a great idea. You don't need to add any extra peppermint - the crushed candy is just right - seems like adding any would make it too overpowered with mint. Someone mentioned they left their egg whites out at room temperature. You don't want to do that. Egg whites always have to be cold. And make sure you don't get any Yolk in the whites or they won't whip up like they're supposed to. I let them sit in the oven with the door ajar when they were done, for 90 minutes. I used parchment paper instead of foil and they came right up. While putting them away I kept popping "just one more" in my mouth. haha 5 Stars. :)

Reviewed On: Dec. 14, 2008

This cake is absolutely amazing! I had my doubts while mixing the ingredients because after adding the yolks it stayed quite dry. Next up were the egg whites and THEN it all made sense. It began to stick together. I didn't press it all together or pat it down in the pan but I think I'll do so next time. I followed the recipe exactly and didn't change anything. This is such a simple recipe but wonderful and old fashioned-ish.

Reviewed On: Dec. 6, 2008