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Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread Recipe

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By Michelle ~ My Gluten-free Kitchen
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour 21 minutes
Additional Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours 1 minute
Yield: 12 slices
Gluten free pumpkin bread made with a streusel topping and a maple glaze.You can easily adapt this to be dairy-free too!

Ingredients 

Loaf:

  • 1 ¼ cup pumpkin puree, plain canned pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie filling
  • ¾ cup corn or vegetable oil
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 cups gluten-free flour blend*
  • 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • ¾ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon ground cloves

Streusel:

  • ½ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup gluten-free flour blend
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons cinnamon
  • ¼ cup butter, =4 tablespoons or ½ stick, melted

Glaze:

  • ¼ cup butter, =4 tablespoons or ½ stick
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons pure maple syrup
  • pinch of salt
  • 2-3 Tablespoons of milk, as needed to thin glaze

Instructions 

  • Preheat your oven to 350°F.
  • Line your loaf pan with parchment paper and spray it with non-stick spray. 
  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the pumpkin and oil. Next add the eggs and whisk until well combined. Then mix in the sugar and brown sugar. Set aside.
  • In another bowl, combine the gluten-free flour, cinnamon, ginger, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, baking powder and cloves. Whisk together.
  • Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until just combined.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan.
  • Streusel: In a small bowl, mix together the brown sugar, gluten-free flour blend, sugar, and cinnamon. Add in the melted butter and mix with a fork until the mixture is crumbly. Evenly sprinkle the streusel on top of the batter in the loaf pan.
  • Bake in the 350° preheated oven for 60-80 minutes or until the streusel has browned and a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean or with moist crumbs only, not wet batter. The wide range of time is because there isn’t a strict standard size/shape of full-size loaf pans – some are wide, some are long, some are skinny but tall. So start checking your loaf for doneness at 60 minutes, and then every 5 minutes until it tests done. When finished baking, remove and place on cooling rack to cool.
  • While the bread is baking, make the glaze. Place butter in a small saucepan on medium-low heat until slightly browned, about 2-2.5 minutes. Be careful not to let this burn. Remove from heat and pour into a metal mixing bowl. Add the powdered sugar, pure maple syrup and salt and mix. Add milk about a teaspoon at a time until you achieve the drizzling consistency you want. Drizzle the glaze over the baked loaf.
  • Allow to cool completely before slicing bread to enjoy!

Notes

I'm assuming your gluten-free flour blend has xanthan gum or guar gum in it already. If your flour blend does not, I would recommend adding 1/2 teaspoon of xanthan in with the dry ingredients when you whisk those together.
See blog post for recommendations for gluten-free flour blends.
You can make this a gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin bread by just swapping the butter and milk in the streusel and glaze with their non-dairy counterparts. I would recommend a non-dairy butter alternative like Earth Balance or Melt in place of the butter. 

Nutrition

Calories: 527kcal | Carbohydrates: 80g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 61mg | Sodium: 389mg | Potassium: 127mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 59g | Vitamin A: 4274IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 89mg | Iron: 2mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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