One of the coolest presents that I received this Christmas was the Ninja Mega Kitchen System:

My mother knows how much I love to cook and that my cooking gadgets are antiques! Today I opened up the Ninja, read a few instructions and put it to work!

I wanted to make this gluten-free pumpkin bread to share with my friends at book club. I’ve never made this particular brand before, found at the discount grocery store. Hopefully I can find it again because it did turn out moist and delicious!

This particular Ninja set can be used for so many different things! First, I tested it’s chopping abilities with a 1/2 cup of pecans. Next, I changed the metal blade to the plastic bread mixing one. I dumped all of the ingredients into the mixer and held my breath while I pushed the “Dough” button.

Everything mixed together perfectly! But now I had to get it out of the mixer and into the bread pan. This proved to be much harder because the dough was thick.

Here I’ve removed the blade and tried to get all of the dough scraped off:

While the bread was baking, I made myself a smoothie to test the single serve option. I didn’t have much to work with but it turned out yummy! This is so easy with very little clean up. I feel so lucky have have these fun gadgets to play with now!