Pumpkin Bread Recipe
If you are looking for the perfect pumpkin bread recipe – you’ve found it! Simple ingredients and super easy to make this delicious pumpkin cake!
How to make Pumpkin Bread
This pumpkin bread recipe is super simple to prepare! You’ll only need a few simple ingredients and one bowl.
- Combine the ingredients – Mix granulated sugar, maple sugar, mashed pumpkin, eggs, oil, vanilla, sifted flour, baking soda, spices, and salt in a large mixing bowl with a whisk or an electric hand mixer.
- Pour into loaf pans – Pour the batter evenly into two (9×5-inch) loaf pans lined with paper liners.
- Bake – Bake in a preheated 350 degree F oven for 60 minutes. Test with a toothpick when inserted comes out clean.
- Let cool – Let the loaves of pumpkin bread cool completely before dusting with powdered sugar or adding cream cheese frosting.
- Make cream cheese frosting (if desired) – Make cream cheese frosting. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside as the pumpkin bread cools. Or simply dust with powdered sugar.
Loaf pan liners are a life-saver! I keep them in stock all the time for any loaf cakes and banana bread come out like a breeze with these babies!
Paper pan liners help get cakes out of loaf pans easily.
Tips for Baking
- Remember each oven is different. It’s a good idea to use an oven thermometer to monitor the temperature.
- Place the loaf pans on a half sheet pan lined with parchment paper. Should any cake batter fall on the sheet pan, clean up is easy.
- Carefully turn the cakes half way through the baking process. Be very careful not to move the pans too much or you chance the cakes falling.
- Let cakes cool completely before removing them from the loaf pans. Loaf pan liners are a life-saver.
This Pumpkin bread is deliciously moist with just the right flavors of pumpkin spice. It’s the kind of cake that gets even more moist the second day.
Recipe FAQs
Check the middle of the loaf with a toothpick. A toothpick when inserted comes out clean. Pumpkin bread typically develops a crack in the top of the loaves. That’s where you can insert the toothpick to check doneness.
Yes! Wrap the entire loaf in a twist tie bag and plop in the freezer. Or, wrap slices individually well with plastic wrap and freeze. It will last in the freezer for up to 2 months.
Thaw a loaf of pumpkin bread by removing it from the freezer and simply placing it on a clean dry kitchen cloth or paper towels on your kitchen counter. There is no need to remove it from the plastic bag. It should thaw completely in a few hours.
Pumpkin cake topped with cream cheese frosting or simply dusted with powdered sugar is the perfect fall dessert. Place the frosted cake in the fridge to set the frosting or just indulge right away!
These cute little pumpkin candies can be found at Walgreens or Food Lion in the seasonal aisle. 
