I'm Not a Pumpkin Bread Mom!

*Cough, wheeze, ahh-choo*
I can be a little crazy at times!!  You may say “Sometimes?!”  Ha!  Well, I, along with Brennan & Reegan, have been sick with some kind of cold.  I guess we are having to get use to them being in school and exposed to Spain’s strain of viruses.  So what do I decide to do on a sicky day?  Bake some pumpkin bread, of course!

I blame it on the pumpkin spice creamer that I put in my coffee each morning.  I got a nice whiff of pumpkin spice and could not resist making some bread.  I tried not to breath, sneeze or cough while making said bread.  Oh well, even if I did, any germs will be killed in the baking process, right?!  Ha!!

However, in recent years I've not been doing so well in the sweet bread department.  I had decided that I would just stick to muffins, but today I decided to try my hand at bread again.  I have this problem of it getting too done on the outside, becoming dry.  Then kinda gooey on the inside.  I sometimes cover the loaves with foil to keep the tops from browning too fast, but it's still a bit dry on the outside.  What am I doing wrong??  Could it be the glass bread pans I'm using??

 Sometimes I use baking paper, but it is hard to get all the crinkles and bumps out of the paper, leaving the edges of the bread bumpy.  So this time I greased the pan.  

It tastes pretty good, but I can't say that it's my favorite.  One of my pet peeves about pumpkin bread is so many of them call for oil.  I don't like the fact that it leaves a big oil mark behind.  So I tend to look for recipes using butter.  Maybe that's the problem.  However, the picture on the website where I got the recipe looks like this, using butter.

It's so pretty and looks so moist and baked just right.  Now why can't I do that?!
I can make muffins, cakes and cookies just fine!  So what's wrong with me?!
Any sweet bread tips out there for me?!
So, I do not seem to be a sweet bread making mama!  Oh well!