Mom's Pumpkin Bread

3 cups sugar

4 eggs

1 cup oil

2 cups pumpkin puree

3 1/3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 Tablespoon baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons salt

1 teaspoon ground cloves

2 Tablespoons cinnamon

1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Beat sugar, eggs, oil and pumpkin in large bowl together well. In a separate bowl, combine flour, soda, salt, cloves and cinnamon with a whisk. Gently mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. Add nuts (optional).

Grease two bread loaf pans and divide batter into the two pans. Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour and 15 minutes.

For cream cheese frosting:

mix:

8 ounces cream cheese

4 Tablespoons butter, softened

1 tsp vanilla

1/2 pound powdered sugar

Add more sugar to thicken and/or milk to thin out. You want it to be pretty thick. Serve with slices of bread.