This Pumpkin Bread Recipe is studded w/ chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, & is so moist & easy! It tastes like fall. It can also be made into muffins!
It’s Hump Day, it’s the last day of September, and my mind is going a little bonkers, because of it. Liiiike. How many more days until Friday? HOW is it already the last day September?! I can’t even comprehend that summer is officially over and fall is in full swing, Halloween is only a short jaunt ahead, and that means Thanksgiving is coming…then Christmas…then…
Breeeeathe.
I’m sure I’m not alone, right? So let’s all pump the breaks, grab a cup of coffee (or something stronger…is it 5 o’clock yet?) and an extra large slice of this super duper moist, fluffy, studded with melty chocolate and butterscotch chips Pumpkin Bread 🎃 (or muffins if that’s what feels right).
Soooo. I reeeeally, really like this pumpkin bread recipe. I may even go so far to say that it’s my new favorite bread/muffin recipe – although these Vegan Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins and these Jumbo Chocolate Chip Muffins are seriously fighting for a three-way tie.
As Trevor so eloquently put it: this pumpkin bread tastes like fall. 🍂
I mean, who doesn’t love that? Taking a bite of pumpkin bread and immediately being flooded with the warmy, cozy flavors of pumpkin, spices, chocolate, and maple-y butterscotch.
Ahhh. Fall. I ♡ you.
Side Note: I snuck a couple butterscotch chips into the bedroom to snack on while I was watching Netflix the other day. Trevor comes in to kiss me goodnight and immediately asks me why I smell like syrup. 😂 Totally busted.
The nose of a bloodhound, I tell you!
Aaaanyway.
I love this pumpkin bread so much that I’ve now made 2 loaves and 1 dozen muffins and while I’m sitting here typing this, I’m slowly savoring the very.last.muffin. 😭 😭 😭
LUCKILY. This recipe is super easy and I’m guessing most of your already have the ingredients on hand, so we’ll just make another batch! Deal?
I used a bunch of spices in today’s pumpkin bread recipe along with flour, baking soda, salt, two types of sugar, and chocolate and butterscotch chips. That’s it for the dry ingredients!
For the wet, I used eggs, a whole lotta pumpkin, oil, orange juice, and vanilla!
The combination of the spices, warm brown sugar, pumpkin, orange juice, and vanilla will make you want to curl up with a steaming hot chocolate and a good book on a rainy day.
But you wanna know the best part?
I’ve adapted this recipe to include the ingredients if you want 2 loaves (or 1 loaf + 1 dozen muffins OR 2 dozen muffins) and scaled it down and included the ingredient measurements for those of you who only want 1 loaf (or 1 dozen muffins…um who are these people? 😉 ).
I wanted options for when I wanted to make 2 loaves, because when I do this, I will typically send one loaf away as a gift and keep one for myself.
Ok. FINE I keep them both for myself, but be better than me and give this as a wonderfully homemade fall gift!
That’s why, I’ve included the measurements for 1 loaf, because let’s be real, I can and I will eat all 2 dozen muffins. and sometimes (only sometimes) I probably only need 1 dozen. 😉
I love that this pumpkin bread can be enjoyed for breakfast, but it’s honestly so moist and decadent, that they can totally be enjoyed as dessert, too!
Eat {pumpkin bread} and be merry!
– Jennifer
We used this 9×5 loaf pan and this muffin tin for this pumpkin bread!
Loving fall flavors? 🍂 Check out these other pumpkin recipes:
Pumpkin Cupcakes w/ Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting
Easy Pumpkin Ice Cream w/ Marshmallow Swirl
Pumpkin Bread
Equipment for this recipe
Ingredients
2 Loaves (or 1 Loaf + 1 dozen muffins OR 2 dozen muffins)
- 3 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 ½ teaspoons salt
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
- 4 large eggs room temperature
- 2 cups brown sugar packed
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 (15 oz) can pumpkin puree
- 1 cup canola oil
- ⅔ cup orange juice room temperature
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ⅔ cups butterscotch chips + more for topping*
- ⅔ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips + more for topping
Glaze
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 cup powdered sugar
1 Loaf (or 1 dozen muffins)
- 1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ tablespoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ⅛ teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 large eggs room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- ½ cup canola oil
- ⅓ cup orange juice room temperature
- ½ tablespoon vanilla extract
- ⅓ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips + more for topping
- ⅓ cup butterscotch chips + more for topping
Instructions
Pumpkin Bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9x5 non stick loaf pan with cooking spray and line it with a strip of parchment paper.** The parchment paper should hang off the sides of the loaf pan.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger.
- In another bowl, whisk together eggs, both sugars, pumpkin, oil, orange juice, and vanilla until well blended.
- Stir the dry ingredients into the pumpkin mixture until just combined. Do NOT overmix.
- Gently stir in chocolate/butterscotch chips
- Pour into the prepared pan.**
- Bake for about 50-60 minutes (I covered mine in tin foil in the last 10 mins) in the preheated oven. Loaf is done when toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let cool and then use the parchment paper overhang to gently lift the loaf out of the pan.
- Drizzle with glaze.
Glaze
- Melt butter and milk together in the microwave.
- Whisk in powdered sugar until smooth.
- Immediately pour over pumpkin bread.
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Notes
Nutrition Information
*Note: Nutrition information is estimated and varies based on products used.
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