Moist Maple Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Moist maple pumpkin bread recipe with oats is here! Delicious Fall dessert with pumpkin puree for breakfast or dessert with coffee. If you loved our moist pumpkin bread recipe from last year this is another treat that’s family friendly.

Maple Pumpkin Muffins

If you wanted to use the batter below in a muffin tin you can! A tweak on our popular Libbys Pumpkin Muffins, baking time is probably one of the most important elements to both staying super moist. You always want to start with the minimum time. Ovens do vary in temp and the height of the rack will make a slight difference too. As SOON as your toothpick comes out mostly clean with moist crumbs attached you want to take them out.

is the ingredients used of course and the more fat = tenderer. For instance using buttermilk vs. milk will of course make the result super moist. Adding a bit of fruit like our delicious Pumpkin Apple Bread is great too. That needs to be done in moderation so it doesn’t weigh it down either.

Remember I was talking about ingredients making the outcome better? Oatmeal is a great add in for this one, you should try it. First it soaks in a bowl with the buttermilk to soak it up and plump, the incorporated into the rest of the ingredients later. It gives this a bit more texture inside too which I like. You’ll need;

Maple Pumpkin Bread Ingredients

• Pumpkin
• Buttermilk
• 1/2 c quick oats
• Real pure maple syrup
• 1/3 c vegetable oil
• Brown sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
• Pumpkin pie spice
• Baking soda
• 1/4 tsp salt

How long should you bake pumpkin bread to keep it moist?

A loaf is almost exactly at 1 hour, but stay close around minute 50. If you want to make mini pumpkin muffins you’ll use the same things, with a mini pan and bake for closer to 8-9 minutes. “Regular” size is closer to 18-20 minutes or until the top springs back when touched gently in the center. Mini Pumpkin Bundt Cakes take about 23 minutes or so but a fun shape and size that is a bit different so I would suggest trying that sometime.

Easy Pumpkin Maple Bread Recipe

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray loaf pan inside with non stick spray or line with parchment paper.
• Place buttermilk and oats in a small mixing bowl and let rest for 15 minutes.
• Meanwhile, whisk the pumpkin, maple syrup, oil, brown sugar, vanilla, and eggs in a medium mixing bowl.
• In another large bowl, whisk dry ingredients like the flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda, and salt together.
• Then mix the wet ingredient oats and buttermilk into the pumpkin mixture
• Slowly add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture until just combined.
• Pour into the prepared loaf pan. If you choose to sprinkle some more oats, shelled pumpkin seeds or dried cranberries on the top do so now.
• Bake for about 55-70 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out mostly clean with moist crumbs attached.
• Set on a wire rack to cool for at least 10 minutes before removing from the loaf pan and bacon on to the cooling rack without the pan

Best if you wait until it is room temperature so it can continue to solidify in pan. Can sprinkle with powdered sugar before serving. Pumpkin Mug Cake is a smaller version of the same thing.

Pumpkin Maple Bread with Cake Mix

Now you could make this following our Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Cake Mix directions but instead of water, use real maple syrup! This simple tweak will surprise you at how delicious that turns out even with a mix. I bet your family won’t even know that you “cheated”.

Pumpkin Bread Topping Ideas

1. We sprinkled the top with some more oats.
2. You can use dried cranberries, mini chocolate chips, or shelled air fryer pumpkin seeds are a nice touch like they do at Starbucks.
   • Many times I won’t add anything at all and it is still beyond delicious so that isn’t necessary.
3. If you wanted it to be more like a streusel type of goodie though I do have this muffin crumb topping that works quite well. With that you can incorporate some chopped up nuts too to add more texture.

After this one we have a ton of other dessert pumpkin recipes you can try. There really are too many to list so you should just type the word into my search box to see them all, or click on the link above. Many are loaves like this one from scratch but we do have others that are semi-homemade using boxed mixes.

How to keep leftovers moist

Either way if you have leftovers you need to wrap tightly and keep on the countertop. When reheating drizzle a bit of melted butter on top of the slice and heat for 30 seconds in the microwave to get moist again.