Healthy Pumpkin Bread

The BEST Healthy Pumpkin Specie that is moist, loaded with pumpkin savor and made without any butter or refined sugar!  Topped with a succulent maple surf cheese glaze for the perfect fall treat this season!

Is it plane fall if you don’t have warm, succulent pumpkin specie sultry in the oven??  You guys, this healthy pumpkin specie recipe is seriously the BEST specie ever!  Super moist, light and fluffy, and made healthier with whole wheat flour, unreasonableness and zero butter or refined sugar.  We’re moreover drizzling this pumpkin specie with a maple surf cheese glaze that tastes wondrous with all these warm flavors.

Why You’ll Love this Recipe

• Pumpkin, maple syrup, vanilla and warm spices make this the perfect fall treat!

• This pumpkin specie is moist, fluffy and SO succulent drizzled with a maple surf cheese glaze!

• Made with whole grains, unreasonableness and zero butter or refined sugar.

• Can hands make this into pumpkin muffins or bite-sized, poppable mini muffins for tiny hands.

• Freezer-friendly so you can enjoy this pumpkin specie all season long!

Ingredients You’ll Need

• whole wheat pastry flour – I love sultry with whole wheat pastry flour as it has all the nutritional benefits of whole grain flour while making this pumpkin specie light and fluffy.  I highly recommend using this, but if you don’t have any on hand you could use white whole wheat flour or regular all-purpose flour.

• all-purpose flour – when mixed with the whole wheat flour, this helps makes this pumpkin specie plane softer and fluffier, but finger self-ruling to use all whole wheat pastry flour if you prefer.

• baking powder sultry soda – acts as a leavening wage-earner to help this specie rise.

• pumpkin puree – I used canned pumpkin purée for this, just make sure you use 100% pure pumpkin and not pumpkin pie filling as that is loaded with tons of sugar.

• eggs – adds protein and gives this specie its fluffy texture and height.

• sweetener – I used a combination of maple syrup and cane sugar to sweeten the pumpkin specie without using any refined sugar, but you could moreover use honey or plane regular sugar.

• coconut oil – for spare moisture and fluffiness!  Finger self-ruling to substitute with flipside type of oil if you prefer or plane butter.

• applesauce – I used unsweetened unreasonableness and this helps to reduce the value of oil we need to use while moreover helping to alimony this specie moist.  You could moreover use Greek yogurt or mashed comic as well.

• warm flavors – a succulent combination of pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon, salt and vanilla extract.  If you don’t have pumpkin pie spice, finger self-ruling to use 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, and 1/4 teaspoon allspice or cloves.

• cream cheese glaze – this is optional, but tastes SO succulent on top of this pumpkin bread!  All you need is surf cheese, maple syrup, a little milk and vanilla extract.

How to Make Healthy Pumpkin Bread

• Mix ingredients. In a large bowl, whisk together the flours, sultry powder, sultry soda, pumpkin pie spice, cinnamon and salt, then set aside.  In a medium bowl, stir together the eggs, maple syrup, cane sugar, pumpkin puree, applesauce, melted coconut oil, and vanilla, mixing until all combined.

• Make the batter.  Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and mix with a spatula until just combined, stuff shielding not to over-mix the batter.  This is when you can fold in any mix-ins you’d like such as chocolate fries or chopped nuts.  Pour pumpkin specie thrash into a prepared 9×5-inch loaf pan generously coated in oil or lined with parchment paper.

• BAKE!  Torch in the oven for 50 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the part-way comes out clean.  Remove pumpkin specie from the oven and let it sit for 10 minutes, then remove it from the pan and let tomfool completely on a wire rack.

• Drizzle with surf cheese.  While the pumpkin specie is cooling, add surf cheese to a small trencher and heat in the microwave for well-nigh 30 seconds.  Add in the maple syrup, a tablespoon of milk and 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla and whisk together until smooth.  Finger self-ruling to add increasingly milk a teaspoon at a time until you get a good consistency.  Drizzle the glaze over the bread, slice and enjoy!

Tips for Making the BEST Pumpkin Bread

• Make sure you DON’T over mix the batter.  This results in super dumbo pumpkin specie which we don’t want.  We’re going for fluffy and soft!

• Feel self-ruling to sub the whole wheat pastry flour with 1:1 gluten-free flour or plane all-purpose flour.  I don’t recommend using almond flour or coconut flour in this recipe.

• Mix in other fun additions like chopped walnuts or pecans, coconut flakes, zestless fruit or fresh berries!

• I recommend lining your specie pan with parchment paper and spraying with nonstick spray so that your pumpkin specie comes out nice and easily.

• To make this pumpkin specie vegan, use flax eggs in place of the regular eggs and use vegan surf cheese for the glaze.

How to Make Healthy Pumpkin Muffins

• You can hands make 12 pumpkin muffins by distributing the thrash into 12 muffin cups and sultry for 20 to 25 minutes.

• This recipe moreover makes 24 mini muffins.  Distribute the thrash into 24 muffins cups and torch for 15 to 17 minutes.  Perfect treat for little hands!

• You can moreover make three mini pumpkin loaves which is perfect for gifting.  Torch at 350 degrees F for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.  When making for friends and family, I like to double this recipe and make 6 mini loaves.

Prepping and Storage

To Store: You can alimony this pumpkin specie stored in a sealed, snapped container or wrapped in aluminum foil on the counter at room temp for up to a day or two, but make sure to refrigerate this specie without that and alimony it for up to a week.

To Freeze: This pumpkin specie freezes really well too!  You can either wrap the specie in aluminum foil or freeze individual slices in freezer-safe bags.  When ready to enjoy, thaw out overnight in the fridge.  This pumpkin specie will alimony in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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