Best Whole Foods Pumpkin Streusel Bread Recipes

WHOLE FOODS PUMPKIN STREUSEL BREAD

Steps:

• Ingredient Options: use McIntosh apples for tart flavor or Cortland for sweet.
• Prepare the topping by blending chopped nuts, sugar, flour, cinnamon and butter in a small bowl until it resembles coarse cornmeal. Set aside. Preheat oven to 350°F Lightly grease two 8-1/2-inch by 4 1/2-inch loaf pans. Set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together pumpkin, oil, eggs, and sugar until well combined. Sift together dry ingredients and stir into pumpkin. Fold in apples and chestnuts. Pour into prepared pans. Divide streusel topping and sprinkle evenly on both pans. Bake 50-60 minutes or until tester inserted into center comes out clean. Cool slightly in pans then transfer to a cooking rack. When cooled, you may wrap loaves and refrigerate or freeze.

WHOLE FOODS PUMPKIN BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Coat an 8-inch loaf pan with canola oil cooking spray and set aside.
• Combine flour with oat bran or wheat germ; baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, salt and baking soda in a large bowl.
• In a medium bowl, combine sugar with oil, honey, milk, pumpkin, egg, and vanilla. Stir into the dry ingredients.
• Fold in walnuts.
• Spoon batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake one hour or until done.
• Cool for 15 minutes on a wire rack. Remove from pan and continue to cool completely.

WORLD'S BEST PUMPKIN STREUSEL BREAD (COOKING LIGHT)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. To prepare topping, combine first 4 ingredients until crumbly. Set the mixture aside.
• To prepare bread, lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and the next 7 ingredients (flour through nutmeg) in a large bowl; stir well with a whisk. Make a well in center of mixture. Combine the pumpkin and next 5 ingredients (pumpkin through eggs) in a bowl; add to flour mixture. Stir just until moist.
• Spoon batter into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray; sprinkle with topping.
• Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.

AUTUMN PUMPKIN BREAD WITH PECAN STREUSEL TOPPING

Steps:

• Bread: preheat oven to 350°.
• Arrange pecans on a baking sheet in a single layer and toast them in the oven for 7-9 minutes, until golden brown and aromatic.
• Reserve 1/2 cup of the toasted pecans for the topping.
• Grease two 9 x 5 inch loaf pans or 36 standard-size muffin cups with butter or cooking spray.
• Whisk the oil and sugar in a big bowl; add in eggs, pumpkin, and water; whisk until combined.
• Stir in the flour, baking soda, spices, and salt; gently stir in 1 cup of the pecan pieces.
• Pour half the batter into each loaf pan (for muffins, fill muffin pans almost to the top with batter).
• Topping: Stir the sugar, butter, cinnamon, and the reserved 1/2 cup of pecan pieces in a bowl; sprinkle the topping liberally over the loaves or the muffins before baking.
• Bake the loaves for 1 hour, or until a pick comes out clean; bake the muffins for 30-35 minutes.
• **May substitute 1 cup of whole wheat pastry flour for 1 cup of all-purpose flour.