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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 

Bread

  • 1 ¼ cup (305 g) pure pumpkin puree, from a can
  • ¾ cup (168 g) corn or vegetable oil
  • 3 (150 g weighed out of shell) large eggs
  • 1 cup (200 g) sugar
  • 1 cup (218 g) brown sugar
  • 2 cups (280 g) all purpose gluten-free flour blend, See Recipe Notes
  • 1 teaspoon xanthan gum, omit if your blend already contains it
  • 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 (70 g) all purpose gluten free flour blend, See Recipe Notes
  • 1/8 teaspoon xanthan gum, omit if your blend already contains it
  • 2 Tablespoons sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons cinnamon
  • ¼ cup butter, melted

Glaze

  • 4 tablespoons (56 g) unsalted butter, melted
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons (42 g) pure maple syrup
  • pinch of salt
  • 2 tablespoons of milk, or more 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. 

For the bread

  • 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 flour blend, xanthan gum, 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.

For the 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.

For 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 and serving.

Notes

For the gluten free flour blend
Choose a high quality, well-balanced, rice flour-based gluten free flour blend (no bean flours!). I recommend Better Batter's classic blend, Authentic Foods Multi-Blend Flour, or Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 with an additional 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum.
Dairy free swap
Swapping the butter and milk in the streusel and glaze with block style vegan butter like Melt or Miyoko's and your favorite nondairy milk.

Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 529kcal | Carbohydrates: 80g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 23g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 61mg | Sodium: 368mg | Potassium: 131mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 59g | Vitamin A: 4276IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 92mg | Iron: 2mg

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

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