This bread was very good. I made it healthier, so I can only assume the original recipe would have tasted just as good. First, I halved the recipe because I only wanted one loaf. I used about 2/3 the 15 oz can of pumpkin. I used half all purpose flour and half bread flour. I used half unsweetned applesauce, a quarter lite butter, and a quarter oil in place of the full amount of oil. I cut the sugar down by 1/3, and used half splenda and half light brown sugar. It was plenty sweet and moist enough. I also added some walnuts and topped with light butter mixed with splenda, cinnamon, and honey as a thin glaze over top. My one regular size loaf pan took an hour to cook, although it is a bit wet in the middle, so could maybe cook longer (or maybe it's the extra pumpkin in it). It smelled so good, I already cut a piece and it's great warm with a squirt of fat free whipped cream. mmmm. :)

Reviewed On: Sep. 26, 2007

1/3 cup lemon juice sounded like WAY too much to me, so I only used 2 tbsp. An entire cake mix sounded insane, so I used about 1/4 of an orange cake mix on top. I only used 1/2 stick lite butter total (1tbsp went in cantaloupe mix, the rest on top of cake mix). I used 1/3 c splenda and just a spoonful of sugar and it was plenty sweet enough. The flavor was amazingly better than I expected, and I agree that it was kind of like a peach cobbler. Disguised the cantaloupe good enough which is what I was looking for because I was tired of eating cantaloupe. The top didn't get crunchy at all though. Next time, I would add some oatmeal to the topping, maybe some nuts, and maybe a different kind of cake mix as orange was a bit too articially sweet. This was a unique recipe and could be tweaked to be really good I think.

Reviewed On: Sep. 21, 2007

Made this recipe tonight for something different.. I couldn't get the alcohol to light at all, and it ended up very strongly alcoholic. Even if it had burned off, I think it's just a bit overpoweringly sweet, and there was way too much sauce even over rice. I'm giving 3 stars because it was ok and I could see how it might appeal to others.. but beware, it probably won't light. Also, I used half the butter called for and can't imagine it would have needed more than that.

Reviewed On: Jun. 28, 2007