Pumpkin Banana Bread – Chocolate Coated Katie

This gentle and moist pumpkin banana bread recipe combines candy cinnamon, ginger, and pumpkin pie spice for the final word Fall impressed wholesome breakfast.

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Wholesome pumpkin banana bread

When you love pumpkin, you must do this pumpkin banana bread.

The scrumptious recipe is packed with two entire cups of pumpkin and banana, including unbelievable moisture, softness, and taste, with out all the additional fats.

I’ve already made the basic pumpkin recipe 5 occasions this yr, with no plans to cease. It’s great for breakfast, snack, dessert, or something in between.

And leftover banana bread slices freeze nicely too!

You might also like these Candy Potato Brownies

Recipe suggestions and tips

When including the dry components to the liquid, don’t over combine.

As an alternative, stir the batter solely till simply evenly mixed. This guards in opposition to over activating the gluten.

It additionally prevents too many air bubbles from being launched into the dough, inflicting powerful, dense, and overly chewy remaining outcomes.

My conventional banana bread recipes persistently come out completely after forty minutes within the oven. Resulting from local weather, humidity, elevation, and uncalibrated oven temperature variations, yours might have to bake a bit of longer.

Don’t open the oven even a crack till the cooking time is up. Each time a scorching oven door is opened, the inner temperature can lower by twenty levels or extra.

This pumpkin banana fast bread makes an awesome wholesome snack or dessert. Flip it right into a excessive protein breakfast by serving alongside Greek yogurt or Tofu Scramble.

Unfold with almond butter, Coconut Butter, pumpkin butter, or cream cheese if desired. When you love chocolate, the loaf is implausible with Selfmade Nutella.

Lastly, make sure you eat a copious quantity of chocolate chips whereas baking, to make up for all of these energy you’re burning!

Leftover pumpkin? Make Applesauce Muffins

Organic Pumpkin Banana Bread Ingredients

Simple pumpkin banana bread components

This can be a good way to make use of up canned pumpkin and ripe bananas.

To make the recipe, you want flour, floor cinnamon, powdered ginger, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, baking powder, salt, sweetener of selection, milk of selection or water, pure vanilla extract, elective oil and huge or mini chocolate chips, and naturally the mashed banana and pumpkin puree.

You may roast your individual pumpkin to make selfmade pumpkin puree. Or go together with the simple possibility of shopping for common or natural canned pumpkin puree on the grocery retailer.

For vegan pumpkin banana bread, use your favourite dairy free and plant primarily based milk of selection, similar to almond milk or coconut milk. There are not any eggs and no butter required.

Be at liberty to sprinkle in a handful of walnuts, pecans, shredded coconut, or raisins.

No pumpkin available? An equal quantity of roasted mashed candy potato or winter squash (similar to butternut squash) are nice substitutions.

Forms of flour that work embrace spelt, white, or oat flour. Some manufacturers of all function gluten free flour additionally work, and there’s a flourless possibility included beneath. I’ve not tried entire wheat flour and wouldn’t advocate coconut flour right here.

Grain free possibility: Almond Flour Banana Bread

Pumpkin banana fast bread recipe video

Watch the step-by-step recipe video, above

The recipe was impressed by my Wholesome Banana Bread and Carrot Cake Banana Bread.

Including further cinnamon and pumpkin took it excessive in deliciousness.

This explicit model is fingers down one of the best banana bread recipe I’ve tried to date.

The best way to make pumpkin banana bread

Begin by gathering the entire components and greasing a 9×5 inch loaf pan.

I additionally like so as to add a chunk of parchment paper to the underside of the pan, as a result of this helps the selfmade pumpkin banana cake loaf come out simply after it’s baked.

Preheat the oven to 350 levels Fahrenheit. Whisk the mashed banana, pureed pumpkin, pure vanilla extract, and different liquid components in a big mixing bowl.

The dry components might be mixed forward of time in a separate bowl. Or flip it right into a one bowl recipe by stirring the dry components straight into the blending bowl.

Stir the entire components collectively, then easy the banana bread batter into the ready baking pan.

If desired, sprinkle chopped nuts, coconut flakes, pumpkin seeds, or chocolate chips on prime of the pumpkin bread. Place the loaf pan on the middle rack of the oven.

Bake the fast bread for 45 minutes or till the pumpkin banana loaf is golden in shade and has domed on prime. A toothpick inserted into the middle of the bread ought to come out largely clear.

Take away the loaf pan from the oven, and let the recipe cool earlier than going across the sides with a knife and popping the bread out of the pan.

If you’re a real pumpkin lover, serve the fast bread with a Pumpkin Spice Latte.

Healthy Pumpkin Banana Bread Breakfast Loaf

The best way to retailer pumpkin banana bread

As soon as cooled, I wish to loosely cowl the recipe on the counter or within the fridge and let it sit within the pan in a single day.

The style and texture are even higher the subsequent day, as a result of extra moisture evaporates, leading to a lightweight and fluffy pumpkin loaf.

This makes a implausible vacation reward and might be wrapped up and given to family and friends who reside regionally. When you select in a single day transport, it may also be shipped to mates who reside additional away.

And in case you are tasked with bringing a dish to share at a brunch or a potluck celebration, the wholesome pumpkin recipe is straightforward to move and all the time a success with visitors.

For optimum freshness, it’s best to refrigerate any leftovers after a day. In a lined container within the fridge, the loaf ought to keep good for as much as 4 days.

You might also slice and freeze leftover banana bread for as much as three months in an hermetic lined container. Place a layer of parchment paper in between slices, so they don’t stick collectively.

Thaw frozen pumpkin banana bread slices on the countertop, or in a microwave, range prime, or a heat oven earlier than serving.

For a excessive protein possibility, do this Protein Banana Bread

2 cups spelt or white or oat flour (low carb: Keto Pumpkin Bread)

1 tsp baking soda

3/4 tsp baking powder

3/4 tsp salt

1/2 tsp each: cinnamon, ginger, pumpkin pie spice

1 1/2 cup ripe mashed banana

1/2 cup pumpkin puree

1/2 cup pure maple syrup or honey or agave

1/3 cup oil or water or milk of choice

2 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/2 cup mini chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease a 9×5 loaf pan, and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, combine all dry ingredients. Whisk all liquid ingredients in a separate bowl, then pour wet into dry and stir to form a batter. Smooth into the prepared pan. If desired, press some extra chocolate chips into the top. Bake on the center rack 45 minutes or until golden and cooked through. Let cool completely. Slice and enjoy! Taste and texture are even better the second day if you can wait. Leftovers can be sliced and frozen if desired.View Nutrition Facts