This traditional pumpkin bread recipe is an easy to make quick bread loved by everyone. Make sure you serve it with Honey Butter! Your family will love it!
Best Ever Pumpkin Bread Recipe
This is one of the easiest quick breads to make. If you need more tips on making quick breads, check these out.
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 cup oil
1 cup pumpkin
1 3/4 cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. allspice
1/3 cup water
1/2 cup walnuts or pecans
1/2 cup raisins (optional)
Mix the sugar, eggs, oil and pumpkin in a bowl. Add the dry ingredients and water in the order given. Mix well. Stir in nuts and raisins if desired.
Pour into a greased and floured loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or longer if needed. To test doneness put a knife in the center of the bread. If it comes out clean it is finished. Serve with Honey Butter (in Dining On A Dime, page 229). Makes 1 loaf.
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Penny S says
This pumpkin bread looks delicious and I will have to make it for my family soon. Today I am in search of a good raisin bread recipe. Yesterday I was in a Kroger store, planning to buy a loaf of raisin bread. I say planning because when I looked at the price of the small loaf-$4.49-I almost passed out! I came home with out the bread and want to make my own. Would appreciate someone sharing their recipe.
Jill says
If it helps Penny I usually use my favorite cinnamon bread bread recipe and just add raisins to it. Someone else might have an “official” recipe for you though.
JANICE CIRAVOLA says
Can you post your cinnamon bread ? i would like to try it you have many good recipe,s.
Jill says
Here is one of my recipes for Cinnamon bread I have another one that I like even better but would you believe I have lost my cook book that I had it in and it was the only copy I have so will have to do some searching for it and if I find it I will post it or we will do a video on it.
Penny S says
Made the pumpkin bread today and it was delicious. I reduced the sugar amount to 1 1/4 cups and it was plenty sweet enough. In fact, next time I make this I will try just using l cup of sugar. I used applesauce in place of oil, used 1/4 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of vanilla flavoring. It looked like too much batter for the bread pan that I have, so I baked it in a bundt pan. Enjoyed this bread a lot.
Inge says
Watched the youtube video last night. Made the bread and it was great. I am at 7700 ft elevation. I did cut the sugar to 1 cup and used pumpkin pie space, and made in muffin pans.
Victoria Martin says
Thanks bunches for making this video of the pumpkin muffins. Made a batch today!!! AWESOME!!. It made 12 big muffins and 24 mini. My daughter and friend took several when they left from the taste test!!
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Jill says
Look so good Victoria!
Emma says
I made this with my daughter last night and it was absolutely delicious! It was moist and not too sweet. It took me a little longer than an hour to cook so I put some foil over the top until it was done, then I took the foil off, and turned the oven off then let it sit a bit more to get rid of the moisture on top.
Jill says
So glad you liked it Emma. Great tip too about letting it sit in the oven to get the moisture off the top.
Becky says
how many ounces is the can of pumpkin?
Jill says
You need a cup of pumpkin for this recipe which is 8 oz. so any can of pumpkin that has 8 oz or more will work
Pattie says
BEAUTIFUL!!! This is the best pumpkin bread recipe I have ever used. I did use 1/2 cup of brown sugar and 1 cup of white sugar. I just made my second loaf and used orange juice instead of water.
Divine!!!
Teri Shull says
I followed the directions and it was too moist & oily. It needs more spices too
Jill says
No there is something else wrong. You must of done something with the flour, liquids or oil.
Francine says
Can “pumpkin pie spice “ be used in place of individual spices and if so what quantity would you suggest ?
Jill says
Yes you can. You may have to adjust to your taste but about 2 – 2 1/2 tsp.
Susan Sims says
I’m not much of a baker but watching Tawra make this on the show last week it just looked so good – and was it ever! I’m going to try adding cranberries next time.
Diane Hoyt says
Made this pumpkin bread for my family two times. We love it. I also made two loves for my friend whose Dad passed away. She called to tell me it is delicious. Thanks for a great recipe and love the dinning on a dime cook book.
Vera says
This is a great recipe. I also cut the sugar to 1 cup and made three mini loaves baked for 45 minutes. Looks beautiful.
Wanda says
I noticed you said you could use pumpkin spice recipe for the spices but I have found the recipes vary in ingredients. Some have allspice and some don’t. But always only four ingredients. Can’t remember which ingredient is cut out.
Wanda
Jill says
Like many recipes you can adjust, add, or leave out different spices to your own taste. For example if you are making stew you can add corn, green beans and carrots or you can leave out all or part of them. Pumpkin bread is the same way. You don’t need to add allspice if you don’t want to. Also what we are meaning here is that many people keep a container of our pumpkin spice recipe made up to use in many different recipes so we are saying you can use that in place of the spices in this recipe. Pretty much all of the spices used in our pumpkin spice recipe can be used in many “spice” flavored recipes.
Donna says
I made this bread and it’s delicious. I had to bake it for 1 hour and 20 minutes. Will certainly make this again in a week or so.