This Easy Pumpkin Bread is a quick bread recipe made with convenient canned pumpkin. Super moist and flavored with delicious spices, it’s perfect for breakfast, a snack, or even dessert!
An easy pumpkin bread recipe
One of my favorite quick bread recipes is this easy pumpkin bread. It’s made with canned pumpkin, so it takes no time at all to whip up the batter and bake.
In just over an hour, you can be sitting down and enjoying warm, fresh pumpkin bread with a cup of coffee, tea, or milk!
How to make a super moist pumpkin bread
Pumpkin bread was a staple of my diet in college. Rafters, a basement cafe in the student center at the University of Tennessee (GO VOLS!), served the best pumpkin bread ever.
It was the super moist, perfect blend of pumpkin and spices and I ate it every day (with popcorn) for lunch. I’m not exaggerating. It was a great lunch, plus I was eating two vegetables in one sitting, corn and pumpkin.
What more could a poor college student wish for? After I graduated, I came across a pumpkin bread recipe that tasted very similar to UT’s and I’ve been using it ever since.
Enjoy a cup of Irish Coffee with your little loaf of pumpkin bread. For an extra special treat, use some of the coffee’s whipped cream to dollop on top of the bread. So delish!
Easy Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 cup plain pureed pumpkin, canned
- 1/2 cup oil
- 1/2 cup water
- 2 whole eggs
- 1 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg, fresh grated
- 1/4 teaspoon cloves
optional: 1/2 cup each of chopped nuts & raisins
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/176C degrees.
- In a large bowl, combine sugar, pumpkin, oil, water, and eggs and mix well.
- In separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients and stir well. Gradually add the dry mixture to the pumpkin mixture and mix well. Stir in optional nuts and raisins, if desired.
- Pour into greased loaf pan and bake 50-60 minutes. Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Remove loaves and place on wire rack to finish cooling.
Recipe Notes & Tips:
- Can also make into mini-loaves or muffins! Just bake in a mini loaf pan or muffin pan and adjust the cooking time to 18-23 minutes
- Wrap leftover bread tightly in plastic wrap and place in a plastic bag at room temperature for up to 2 days or in the refrigerator for up to 5 days
- Can freeze bread for up to 3 months in a freezer proof bag
TJ OReilly says
Eating this all day… Brought this into work and all my coworkers have been commenting how good it is. Thanks for the great recipe.
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Thank you TJ for trying the recipe. So happy everyone enjoyed it!