pumpkin spice bread;

Part spice cake and part pumpkin bread, this pumpkin spice bread is the perfect fall loaf! A beautiful blend of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice mixed with pumpkin and baked into a bread–slice for the perfect sweet treat. I like a little smear of butter on my slice of pumpkin spice bread, but if I had apple butter…

Ugh, just thinking about it is making me drool. The sweet apple butter loaded with extra spices would be the perfect complement. And lucky for you, I have a delicious slow cooker apple butter recipe if you want to make your own! But storebought is easy, no shame there either~

It’s fall now, and that means pumpkin everything! Pumpkin spice is not usually my go to (you can imagine…it’d be chocolate). But it does feel like an appropriate way to christen in the autumn, especially with a slight cold front sweeping through Virginia. It’s snuggly sweater weather, and the flavors of pumpkin spice bread for breakfast with coffee (or chai tea, if you’re me) are just delightful.

Mix everything together well! You can see a few white spots in my batter, and while it doesn’t affect the flavor, it definitely looks nicer as a consistent pumpkin-colored loaf.

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Mix everything together well! I had a couple of lumps of flour left in my batter, and you can see that unevenness in a couple of my photos. It didn’t impact the flavor or texture, and the pumpkin spice bread was still delicious, but it definitely looks nicer as a consistent orangey-brown loaf.

I started with Giada’s Halloween Spice Cake but had to make it pumpkin! So I subbed out the applesauce for the pumpkin. I might experiment with adding even more pumpkin in the future because I wouldn’t say no to this bread loaf being extra heavy on the pumpkin. But I’ll have to play with the ratios because I don’t want it to become too dense.

Experiment with different serving spreads! Butter is great, apple butter, or pumpkin butter make for savory and sweet treats.

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Experiment with different serving spreads! Try apple butter, or make your own pumpkin butter. Or go classic with a regular smear of butter. You can do no wrong

Plus, if you like pumpkin here’s a tip–make some pumpkin butter! In a small bowl combine 4 Tbsp room temperature salted butter, 2 Tbsp pumpkin puree, and ½ tsp honey. Stir until smooth and combined and try on a slice of pumpkin spice bread. That way you get extra pumpkin-y flavor, but don’t compromise the integrity of the bread.

For a little extra texture, consider adding some chopped walnuts into the bread. I didn’t do it here, but I bet the nutty crunch would add a delicious crunch to every bite! If you do want to add inclusions, here’s a tip: try tossing them lightly in flour before folding them gently into the batter. With a little dusting of flour, they tend to suspend in the batter more evenly. So you’re less likely to get all your walnuts clustered at the bottom of your loaf.

If you want to add inclusions, try tossing them lightly in flour before folding them gently into the batter. This helps them suspend in the batter more evenly.

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Keep an eye out for how to turn this pumpkin spice bread into the cutest little pumpkin truffles!

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more recipes;

Looking for your new fall favorite? Check out these delicious autumn recipes:

• Try this apple cider slush for a cool fall treat on those days that it’s still too warm for fall, but you want that fall apple flavor!
• Delicious breakfast pastries, or on-the-go snacking, strawberry apple hand pies combine the fruity flavors of strawberries and apples and wrap them in flaky, buttery dough.
• Another fall favorite flavor? Maple is great. Chocolate-dipped maple shortbread cookies are the perfect combination of sweet maple, crumbly buttery shortbread, and chocolate maple drizzle.
• Punchy apple cider doughnuts have an intense flavor of apple cider, perfect for a morning treat with coffee or tea!