Healthy Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze
This healthy pumpkin bread with maple glaze is incredibly craveable and just hits the spot. While the recipe uses a ton of pumpkin and no additional sugar, this healthy bread almost eats like a cake. Moist, perfectly dense, and the hint of the sweetness that comes from the glaze just sends it over the top. A perfect treat to enjoy with a cup of tea and a book or as a healthy snack on the go. Choose your own adventure!
This is a really solid recipe that I think you’re going to love. Easy to make with a ton of flavour. Also, this is 100% kid-friendly. It’s very similar in texture to a traditional banana loaf, but the pureed pumpkin gives this bread a lovely colour and is packed with a ton of healthy nutrients, especially iron.
Ingredients:
Wet Ingredients
- ⅓ cup melted butter
- 15 oz (445 ml) pumpkin puree (a little more than 1 ¾ cup)
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ cup maple syrup
Dry ingredients
- 1¾ cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp ground ginger
Maple Glaze
- ½ cup powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 tbsp melted butter
- 1 tbsp milk (any kind will do)
Instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 and grease an 8 ½ X 4 ½ inch loaf pan. Maybe even make yourself a cup of coffee too.
- In a large bowl, add pumpkin puree, vanilla, maple syrup, and eggs. Mix together.
- Add in melted butter and mix. Make sure it’s not too hot or it could cook the eggs.
- Now, the dry ingredients. Add in the baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and mix. Next up, the flour. Mix until incorporated, but no more. DO NOT OVERMIX.
- Pour batter into loaf pan and place in the oven for 50-60 minutes. Check at 50 minutes to see how things are going. Use a wooden skewer to check for doneness. If you poke the skewer in and it comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached, you are good. It’s done.
- While bread is baking whip up the maple glaze. Pour the icing sugar, maple syrup, melted butter and milk in a bowl and mix until smooth.
- Once the bread is done, let cool in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Remove the loaf from the pan and let cool on a wire rack.
- Once the bread is cooled, pour on maple glaze.
- Slice the loaf, grab that coffee, and enjoy. I am telling you, this is a good recipe!
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