Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze

Moist and lightly spiced pumpkin bread is an easy baking project to jump-start the fall season, just like these easy pumpkin hand pies. The simple batter comes together with little effort leaving you to enjoy the warm aroma that wafts from the oven as it bakes. A simple maple glaze drizzled over the top makes it an extra special treat for breakfast or dessert.

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Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze

I’ve been welcoming fall since about mid-August (I’m an early adopter), but it’s not until I fill my kitchen with the scent of pumpkin spice that the season feels official.”Official” in the sense that I can, in fact, sip a warm drink while donning my finest fall layers while pumpkin bread bakes in the oven.

A pumpkin bread dressed in a sweet maple glaze is the epitome of fall. Pumpkin spice has become so associated with fall that it’s practically a cliche now. Pumpkin spice everything and everywhere!

Despite my love for the season, I do draw a line with the famed mix of warm spices. I don’t buy into the pumpkin spice craze – no pumpkin spice lattes, candles, or French toast for me, thanks. I draw the line with just one fall spiced treat: Pumpkin bread. It’s a classic.

Okay, maybe some pumpkin pie, too. But, that’s it!

There have been many pumpkin bread recipes in my life most of which, while delicious, fell a little flat. It wasn’t until I tried my friend Rosemary’s lemon bread recipe that I learned the ratio of flour, baking powder, eggs, and butter that produces a towering quick bread that cracks open on top.

I love that rustic look. So now, I use the base ingredient amounts from that recipe to create my own quick breads and it works every time.

The batter is a low-maintenance operation. A quick whisk of the dry ingredients and a few stirs for the wet ones and a marrying of the two, mixing until they are just combined. From there the bread needs a good hour and ten minutes or so in the oven, which I suppose is a good opportunity to get things done.

For example, like work or dusting or some other project, but I recommend taking a seat at the kitchen table with a magazine or other choice reading material and a hot drink. Half the reward in making pumpkin bread is the way it fills your house with warm coziness.

You’re going to want to hang around the kitchen to take full advantage of the experience.

Want more fall-inspired baking ideas? Be sure to check out my peanut butter banana bread, cinnamon apple coffee cake, and these peanut butter and chocolate muffins!

Some Ingredients You’ll Need

• 15-ounce can of pumpkin puree. Be sure it’s puree and not pumpkin pie filling.
• Spices: I use a pared-back spice medley of cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg.
• The usual baking suspects: flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder, and milk
• The glaze has confectioners sugar, real maple syrup, and milk

Helpful Tools

• 1.5 quart Pyrex loaf pan
• Mixing bowls
• Metal cooling rack
• Measuring cups and spoons

Looking for more fall recipes to kick-start the season?

• This spice cakemay be the answer. The aroma that creeps through your home with this cake in the oven will have you hooked immediately.
• Another favorite is this easy baked apple crisp, a recipe that everyone will LOVE.
• If you have plenty of apples leftover from your apple picking outing, make a batch of this crockpot caramel apple cider. This caramel apple cider will warm you and all of your guests up on a chilly evening. It’s the perfect fall party drink!
• Two more recipes I’d like to share with you are my chocolate zucchini bread. This quick bread is moist, chocolatey and full of flavor!
• Or, this lemon zucchini bread with blueberries, it’s perfect for bringing to work for your coworkers or baking with the family.
• Try this cinnamon raisin swirl quick bread too!
• Pumpkin chicken pot pie takes fresh pumpkin to a whole new level by baking it together with chicken, peas, and onion in a flaky puff pastry.