This is the most moist and delicious healthy pumpkin bread you'll bake and eat. This pumpkin bread recipe is made with pure honey, plenty of real pumpkin, and whole grain. You've got to try it to believe how good it is.
Preheat oven to 325F with rack on lower middle position. Grease a nonstick 9x5 loaf pan and set aside.
In a large bowl, mix together the pumpkin honey, oil, cider, vanilla, and eggs until fully incorporated.
In a separate bowl, use hand whisk to fully combine the flour, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, and salt. Use rubber spatula to gently fold flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture. Batter should be rather thin, so you only need to fold a few times just until no dry flour streaks remain.
Use rubber spatula to transfer mixture into prepared loaf pan. Even out the top so that corners are filled. If desired, sprinkle top evenly with turbinado sugar and bake 45-50 minutes or just until toothpick inserted into center comes out with a few tender crumbs attached. Do not wait until toothpick is fully dry/clean, as it's often overdone by then.
If desired, sprinkle extra turbinado sugar over top of freshly baked pumpkin bread and let cool completely in pan at room temp. Once cooled, run thin knife carefully around edges to loosen and lift bread.
Notes
You'll get more accurate flour measuring results by using scoop-scrape method: Gently scoop flour into measuring cup and use flat end of a knife to scrape off excess flour off the top. This requires that you have flat measuring cups without rims. Never tap down or pack down when measuring flour.
If you prefer to use regular whole wheat flour, that is fine; bread will have a bit more of a grainy texture.
Use sweet apple cider (the juice) and not vinegar. Unfiltered apple cider has more flavor than regular apple juice.
Olive oil works great for baking and does not impart any olive flavors. However, you can also use melted coconut oil or canola oil instead of olive oil.
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