Is this breakfast or dessert? Both of them are! This is the season when pumpkin takes front stage in flavour characteristics. And if your kids and hubby enjoy anything with a pumpkin flavour as much as they do, you really must try this delectable handmade moist pumpkin bread recipe. It's the ideal dish to grab for a satisfying breakfast, a delightful dessert, a snack, or to offer guests. It can also be made for your colleagues. It's a fall treat that everyone will enjoy!

Pumpkin Bread, The Best Recipe

Enjoy the smells of freshly baked pumpkin bread inside your home. This recipe promises to taste great and with healthy ingredients you'll be happy to feed it to the people in your life whether you've baked before or not.

Ingredients for Pumpkin Bread

  • Flour: For this case all purpose flour is the best.
  • Baking powder and baking soda: To get that lift.
  • Spices: You'll need to add ground cloves, nutmeg and cinnamon to add taste.
  • Salt: Funnily, it overpowers the sweet, earthy flavours.
  • Unsalted butter: It should already be soft at room temperature.
  • Eggs: Everything is bound by eggs.
  • Pumpkin puree: Use completely pure pumpkin puree with no added flavor.
  • Vanilla extract: Of course balancing the sweetness.
  • Optional ingredient: Walnuts.

Easy Pumpkin Bread Recipe: Delicious and Foolproof!

Guess who has the scrumptious, cozy aroma of fresh baked pumpkin bread drifting through their home? It is simple enough as a recipe that takes 25 minutes to prep but is good enough for beginners. Don't be intimidated if you are new to baking – you can't go wrong with this one!

How to Make Pumpkin Bread:

  1. Prep: Place your oven on 325° and grease your loaf pans with nonstick spray.
  2. Mix Dry Ingredients: Put flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves in a large bowl.
  3. Mix Wet Ingredients: Also in another bowl, beat butter and sugar using an electric mixer. Beat eggs in one at a time; beat in pumpkin.
  4. Combine: Mix the wet ingredients together, add dry ingredients gradually until becoming smooth.
  5. Bake: Sprinkle chopped walnuts and pour the batter in pans, bake for 60-75min. Let cool before serving.

This easy to make, flavorful pumpkin bread is sure to be enjoyed any time of year and makes the perfect fall treat.

Professional Advice and Techniques for the Ideal Moist Pumpkin Bread All the Time

  • Store your butter and eggs at room temperature. Your moist pumpkin bread will rise more evenly and have a better texture if you do this.
  • Make pureed pumpkin. This is the cooked and pureed material; nothing else. Pumpkin pie filling is not what you want because it contains additional sugar and spices that will alter the flavour of this dish.
  • It can be made gluten-free. To make a gluten-free, nutritious pumpkin bread recipe, just replace the flour and baking powder with gluten-free ones. As it is, baking soda is gluten-free.

Frequently Asked Questions

My Pumpkin Bread is getting dry; why?

Either too little liquid or too much flour might have been supplied if your measurements were off. Dryness might also result from baking at an excessive temperature. Don't forget not to overmix the components either!

How is moist pumpkin bread maintained?

It stays wet just well thanks to the pumpkin puree. However, the longer you store it, the more it will dry up, so try to finish it before then.