During Fall, all the pumpkins come out! And what better way to use them than PUMPKIN BREAD. This is a wonderful simple and easy recipe to use with freshly milled wheat. Perfect for beginners. In this recipe I use freshly milled spelt flour but you can use soft white wheat or even kamut! Experiment to your liking.
100% Whole Grain Pumpkin Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups freshly milled flour spelt, soft white wheat, or kamut is best!
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp ground cloves or 7-10 whole cloves, grounded
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 1/2 sticks softened butter
- 1 cup white sugar I use cane sugar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar sucanat can be used
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 2 cups pumpkin puree or one 15.5oz canned pumpkin puree
- 1/4 cup milk More or less may be needed
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit
- Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and mix until light and fluffy, about a minute.
- Add pumpkin puree to butter, sugar, and eggs and mix. If it looks grainy, that's normal.
- Mix together dry ingredients - flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar
- Add dry ingredients to pumpkin puree mixture a little at a time to avoid flour dust going everywhere
- If mixture looks dry, add milk 1 tablespoon at a time until desired consistency is reached. Just a little bit thicker than cake batter. The amount of milk added will depend on the flour used!
- Divide batter up into two greased loaf pans. Count on the bread to rise about 1/2 - 1 inch.
- Place on lower third of preheated oven and bake for 30-45 minutes until toothpick comes out clean. *Note* If your oven doesn't have a top burner, you can place it in the middle of your oven. I like to place on lower third to prevent browning on top of loaf.
- When done, let bread sit in pans for about 10 minutes
- After 10 minutes, remove from loaf pans onto a plate and ENJOY!
Notes
Feel free to experiment to your taste! This is not a super sweet bread, so if you want it sweeter you can add more sugar.
Optional ingredients to add: chocolate chips
Spices can be adjusted to your tastes
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Thank you for sharing!
I loved freshly milled wheat because it is so healthy but I know sugar is unhealthy.
I have not tried this recipe so I can’t rate it. I probably will not try it because of the sugar.
But I appreciate you and thank you for what you are doing!
What size pans did you use?
What size pan do you use?
This is a great recipe. I have made it numerous times. I have thrown in a little freshly milled rye as well. You can also make a yummy banana bread substituting very ripe bananas for the pumpkin, and omit the cinnamon and nutmeg. I do put a tsp of vanilla in. Just divine. Thank you Felicia!
Could I sub in honey or molasses for the sugar? Not sure of the measurement exchanges. We never cook with sugar, but I do like pumpkin bread!
I didn’t have brown sugar so I substituted molasses and it was great!! Thank you, Felicia.