One Bowl Boozy Pumpkin Bread

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.

2. In a large mixing bowl, combine the pumpkin puree and melted butter.

3. Add the brown sugar, egg, vanilla, and bourbon (if you find 2 tablespoons is not an adequate amount, feel free to add more), then add the pumpkin pie spice.

4. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Then add the all-purpose flour and whole wheat flour and mix until just combined. Don’t over-mix your flours! As Alton Brown says, just walk away.

5. Pour mixture into a buttered or baking-sprayed 4×8-inch loaf pan.

6. Bake for 35 to 50 minutes, or until a tester comes out clean (at 40 minutes, mine was perfectly done—the tester was clean but the cake was moist, and my oven runs a little on the hot side, so definitely err on the side of caution). Cool on a rack. Remove from the pan and slice to serve.