this delicious pumpkin bread is melt-in-your-mouth tender with a buttery soft brown sugar streusel. it’s perfect any time of day and a wonderful way to ring in pumpkin season!

I’ve had the idea to do a pumpkin bread with a buttery streusel since last fall when I made these bakery-style pumpkin streusel muffins and I’m happy to say I finally got around to it!

Up until now I really hadn’t found a pumpkin bread recipe that I absolutely LOVED. There were ones that I liked and found good, but not one that I felt like was mind-blowing every single time I ate it.

Until now!

I was googling pumpkin bread recipes over the summer and stumbled upon this one from Once Upon a Chef and I decided to give it a go.

All I can say is OMG. It was everything I had been looking for in a pumpkin bread.

A simple list of ingredients. Comes out perfectly every time. SUPER tender. Not too overwhelming on the pumpkin flavor. After making it a couple times, I knew it had to be the base of this loaf.

From there I just needed to top with my go to streusel recipe and the rest is history. Delicious for any meal or snack (even dessert – especially when topped with ice cream!).

pumpkin streusel bread

Author: Cait
Prep Time: 10-15 minutes
Cook Time: 65-75 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour +
Yield: 2 loaves 1x
Category: bread

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Description

this delicious pumpkin bread is melt-in-your-mouth tender with a buttery soft brown sugar streusel. it’s perfect any time of day and a wonderful way to ring in pumpkin season!

Ingredients

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For the Bread:

Recipe from Once Upon a Chef
The only changes I made were to nix the nutmeg and cloves and instead sub in 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
Optional add-in: 1 cup chocolate chips (more or less as desired)

For the Streusel:

1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oatmeal
4 tablespoons brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 tablespoon crushed walnuts
8 tablespoons room temperature butter

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 325°F and set an oven rack in the middle position. Generously grease two 8 x 4-inch loaf pans with butter and dust with flour.
Combine streusel ingredients in a bowl until a chunky crumb forms. Set aside.
Combine bread ingredients according to recipe instructions
After dividing batter into loaf pans, top both loaves with streusel pressing it down into the batter gently to ensure it adheres during baking.
Bake for 65-75 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the middle comes out clean. Allow loaves to cool for 10 – 15 minutes in the pan then carefully turn out and allow to finish cooling on a wire rack.

Keywords: pumpkin, flour, baking soda, sugar, walnuts