This bread is soooo moist and just sweet enough. Delicious with coffee. These would taste amazing with a streusel top or cream cheese frosting, if you wanted it even sweeter, but I think it stands alone amazingly well.
Preparation Details
Prep Time: 15 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 1 hr 5 mins
Servings: 24
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tablespoons flaxseed meal
- 1 cup applesauce
- 1 cup loosely packed brown sugar
- ⅓ cup vegetable oil
- ¼ cup almond milk
- 2 cups pumpkin puree
- 2 ½ cups whole wheat flour
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 dash ground nutmeg
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 2 loaf pans with cooking spray.
- Combine water and flaxseed meal in a small bowl. Let stand until thickened, about 5 minutes.
- Stir flaxseed mixture, applesauce, brown sugar, vegetable oil, and almond milk together in a bowl. Add pumpkin puree.
- Mix whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, cardamom, cloves, and nutmeg together in a bowl. Blend in applesauce mixture. Divide batter between loaf pans.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before inverting onto a wire rack.
