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Pumpkin Bread

This PUMPKIN BREAD is the perfect breakfast with your coffee, the most satisfying snack, and delicious for dessert!

Course Breakfast
Cuisine American
Keyword Breakfast bread, Fall bread recipe, Pumpkin bread
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Servings 2 loaves

Ingredients

Pumpkin Bread:

  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 cups canned pumpkin or 1 15 oz. can
  • 2/3 cup water
  • 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
  • 2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1 ½ tsp. salt
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp. ground nutmeg

Topping:

  • 1/4 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 3/4 stick of butter cold, chopped into small cubes

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease the bottom and sides with butter and sprinkle flour in two loaf pans.
  2. Combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a medium bowl. Whisk together and set aside.
  3. Mix the sugar and oil with your mixer (I use the whisk attachment). Add eggs one at a time and mix. Add pumpkin and mix. Add water and mix well.
  4. With your mixer on low, add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture slowly. (I add a fourth of the dry mixture at a time.) Mix (or fold with a spatula) until it is just combined. Do not overmix!
  5. Fill the two pans equally with the batter.
  6. For the topping: combine the sugars, flour, and cinnamon and whisk together. Add your cold butter and using two forks or a pastry blender, cut the butter into the dry mixture until it begins to resemble small peas. (video here!)
  7. Sprinkle the mixture equally over the batter in the pans and bake for about 1 hour, or until a toothpick comes out clean from the center.
  8. Let bread cool in pans for about 10 minutes and then remove to a cooling rack. Let bread cool completely before slicing. Store in foil or an airtight Ziploc.

Recipe Notes

Adapted from Paula Deen's Lady & Son's Cookbook.
Freezes well. Dairy-free if you exclude the topping.