This bread is super moist, but read the notes at the bottom of the recipe for some possible modifications.
Quick and Easy Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups flour
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/8 tsp ground allspice
- 1/8 tsp ground nutmeg (see note 1)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil and/or 1/4 cup fat-free greek yogurt (see note 2)
- 1 egg
Instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x5 inch loaf pan,
or line with parchment paper for easier removal! - Mix together dry ingredients in bowl. Add pumpkin, oil/yogurt and eggs; mix until fully incorporated (you can do this by hand, no need for a mixer).
- Bake for 1 hour or until inserted toothpick comes out clean.
Voila!
Notes:
1. This recipe is very conservative on the pumpkin pie spice. You might want to double the cinnamon, ginger, allspice, and nutmeg if you like a lot of that spice profile. Also, you can substitute 1-2 tsp pumpkin pie spice if you have that instead.
2. This bread is VERY moist!!!! I used both oil and greek yogurt, but I'm thinking that next time I might just try to omit the oil. I think the pumpkin and yogurt do quite a sufficient job.
3. You could also sprinkle the top with a cinnamon sugar mixture before baking.
4. Of course, feel free to play with any mix-ins such as chocolate chips or nuts!
What would you mix in?
Mmm, that looks super yummy. I will need to hunt down any pureed pumpkin i can find in Oslo to make this tomorrow. I will probably double the spices, like you suggested, and I might add some nuts.
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Well, if you can get a real pumpkin, you can roast that in the oven and then puree it... I've done that before to make this bread, when I was feeling ambitious. Not at 10pm at night when trying to appease someone at the last minute. :)
ReplyDeleteI just completed this recipe and it's in the oven. I will let you know how it comes out. I do have 2 pumpkins currently in the house. But I have no desire to attempt to roast them.
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I baked this bread.
ReplyDeleteI made some alterations based on what I had in the kitchen. I used regular yogurt instead of Greek, and no oil. I felt the bread was still moist. I added about a cup of crushed Walnuts (might have over done it there). I sprinkled some Cinn&Sugar on top prior to baking, along with Sea Salt. Enjoyed it, it made like a crystalized topping like a DD Muffin. Yum!