Recipe: Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze
Pumpkin season is officially here, although we like to use canned pumpkin in recipes all year round! It’s super nutritious and easy to incorporate into meals such as oatmeal, quesadillas and pasta sauce. This bread is truly something special if you want to highlight that pumpkin flavor and settle into the coziness of the season.
Brown Butter Pumpkin Bread with Maple Glaze
Recipe adapted from ambitiouskitchen.com
Ingredients
- For the wet ingredients:
- ⅓ cup butter
- 1 (15 ounce) can pumpkin puree
- ½ cup pure maple syrup
- 2 eggs
- For the dry ingredients:
- 1 ¾ cup whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- For the glaze:
- ½ cup (57g) powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 1 tablespoon milk of choice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease an 8 ½ x 4 ½ inch loaf pan with butter or coconut oil.
- Add butter to a saucepan and place over medium heat. The butter will begin to crackle and then foam. Make sure you whisk constantly during this process. After a couple of minutes, the butter will begin to brown and turn a nice golden amber color on the bottom of the saucepan. Continue to whisk and remove from heat as soon as the butter begins to brown and give off a nutty aroma. Immediately transfer the butter to a medium bowl to prevent burning. Set aside to cool for 5-10 minutes or until cool enough to touch.
- Add pumpkin puree, pure maple syrup and eggs to a large bowl. Whisk together until smooth. Whisk in browned butter.
- In a separate large bowl, stir together whole wheat pastry flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger until well combined. Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined. Pour batter into prepared pan and smooth top with a spatula. Bake for 50-65 minutes until a tester comes out clean or with just a few crumbs attached. Allow bread to cool in pan for 10 minutes, then remove bread from pan and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
- Once bread is completely cool, make the maple glaze: In a small bowl, mix together the powdered sugar, pure maple syrup and milk. Pour over the pumpkin bread, then cut into slices and serve!