Pumpkin Bread

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Prep Time:
18 mins
Total Time:
1 hrs 20 mins
Yield:
Makes two 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch or four 6-by-3-inch loaves

This quick bread is the ultimate fall treat that works morning, noon, and night: You'll enjoy it with a cup of coffee before school drop-off and your kids will gobble it up once they return home. The pumpkin bread recipe starts with canned pumpkin purée and uses two different types of sugar—granulated and dark brown. The latter adds a touch of molasses flavor and chewy texture. We amped up the autumnal flavor, too, with cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. And since the recipe makes two loaves, there's plenty to share.

Ingredients

  • Unsalted butter, room temperature, for pans

  • 3 ¼ cups all-purpose flour

  • 3 teaspoons baking powder

  • ½ teaspoon baking soda

  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

  • ½ teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

  • ¼ teaspoon ground allspice

  • ¾ teaspoon coarse salt

  • 1 15-ounce can pure pumpkin

  • 1 cup granulated sugar

  • 1 cup packed dark-brown sugar

  • 4 large eggs

  • 12 tablespoons (1 ½ sticks) unsalted butter, melted

  • ½ cup low-fat buttermilk

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 8 1/2-by-4 1/2-inch loaf pans. In a large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and salt.

  2. Combine pumpkin puree and sugars in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric mixer until combined, 2 to 3 minutes. Add eggs and melted butter and beat to combine, scraping down sides of bowl as needed. With mixer on low, add flour mixture in two batches, alternating with the buttermilk and beginning and ending with the flour; beat to combine.

  3. Divide batter between prepared pans; smooth tops. Bake, rotating once, until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean, 70 to 80 minutes for large loaves, 45 minutes for small. Transfer to wire rack to cool 10 minutes. Turn out of pans, re-invert onto wire rack, and cool completely.

    Pumpkin Bread
    Bryan Gardner
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