Easy Pumpkin Spice Bread
A soft, tender loaf with pumpkin puree, brown sugar and warm spice. Add chocolate chips for pumpkin chocolate chip bread.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 1 hr
- Total
- 1 hr 10 min
- Makes
- 1 (9x5-inch) loaf, about 10 slices
Pumpkin bread is the first thing many of us bake when the weather turns. This version is soft, gently spiced and made with oil, which keeps it moist for days.
Pumpkin puree, not pie filling
Use plain canned pumpkin puree. Pumpkin pie filling is already sweetened and spiced and will throw off the recipe. This loaf uses about half a 15-ounce can; the rest goes into a pumpkin pie smoothie or freezes in ice cube trays.
A quick bread is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs, and the center reads about 200°F on an instant-read thermometer. If the top browns before the middle is done, tent it loosely with foil.
Easy Pumpkin Spice Bread
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 1 hr
- Total
- 1 hr 10 min
- Makes
- 1 (9x5-inch) loaf, about 10 slices
Ingredients
Method
Heat the oven to 350°F and grease or line a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt and spice in a bowl.
In a large bowl, whisk the pumpkin, oil, both sugars, eggs and milk until smooth.
Fold the dry ingredients into the wet until just combined. Fold in the chocolate chips, if using.
Bake for 55 to 65 minutes, until a toothpick in the center comes out clean.
Cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out and cool completely before slicing.
A new recipe from our editors: times are estimates and have not yet been confirmed in our own test kitchen. Use the doneness cues and temperatures above.
Storage
Wrap the cooled loaf and keep it at room temperature for up to 3 days, or refrigerate for up to a week. To freeze, wrap well and freeze for up to 3 months; slices thaw in about 30 minutes.
Questions, answered
Can I use pumpkin pie filling instead of pumpkin puree?
Not in this recipe. Pie filling is already sweetened and spiced, so the bread would be too sweet and the texture would change.
