This pumpkin bread is moist and packed with flavor. It’s based on the recipe my mom and I used to bake together when I was a kid. One of my earliest memories is the smell of fall spices in the kitchen as the pumpkin bread was baking. The original recipe was given to my mom by a neighbour when we first moved to America. My addition is an irresistible crumble topping.
If you have kids or grand kids, this is a great recipe to get them involved with. All that’s needed is a bit of mixing of ingredients. Then you pop it in the oven. An hour later, you’ll have some delicious pumpkin bread. And your kitchen, like mine, will be filled with the smell of warming, sweet autumnal spices.
If your pumpkin spice bread is gummy or undercooked in the center, it’s typically because it either 1) needed more time to bake in the oven or 2) the batter was too wet, which led the bread to collapse in on itself a bit (this happens if you measure ingredients by volume, rather than by weight: it’s easy to …
Why does my pumpkin bread taste bland?
Make sure to follow the recipe exactly. That means—don’t leave out the salt, don’t cut the amount of sugar, and use the specified amount of cinnamon. This is important because flour is what I like to call a “flavor thief”— it sucks the flavor out of ingredients. So, if you don’t follow the recipe as specified, you risk a bland tasting pumpkin bread.
How do I store pumpkin bread?
When cool, store the pumpkin bread in an airtight container or a Ziploc bag at room temperature for up to 3 days.
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