Easy Pumpkin Bread
Easy Pumpkin Bread is a great fall recipe. Perfect with coffee on a crisp October morning or served for guests at Thanksgiving. Just mix & bake- so simple!
Servings 2 loaves
Ingredients
- 1¾ cups granulated sugar
- ½ cup vegetable or canola oil
- 2 large eggs
- 15 ounces pumpkin puree
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp table salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
- Grease & flour 2- 8×4″ loaf pans & set aside. You can also use a bakers release if you have that on hand.
- Whisk together sugar and oil in a large bowl until it looks like wet sand.
- Whisk in the eggs until well-combined.
- Add in the pumpkin puree & mix well.
- Mix in the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, salt & baking powder until just combined – don’t over-mix.
- Divide the batter evenly between the 2 prepared loaf pans.
- Bake 40-60 minutes or until toothpick test comes out clean. Mine took the full 60 minutes – but ovens vary.
- Allow the loaves to cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes before removing from the pans.
- Remove from the pans & allow the loaves to continue cooling until they reach room temperature.
- **Or if you are enjoying right away, serve warm.
Notes
Note- If you do not have pumpkin pie spice, you can make your own.
Combine 1 tbsp ground cinnamon, 2 tsp ground ginger, 1/2 tsp ground cloves, 1/2 tsp allspice, 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg, and a pinch of cardamom or mace. Stir together until blended. This mixture will make approx 2 tbsp of pumpkin pie spice.