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One-Bowl Skinny Pumpkin Bread

September 6, 2016 5 Comments

This one-bowl skinny pumpkin bread is moist, tender, and loaded with warm fall spices–for less than 250 calories a slice!

One-Bowl Skinny Pumpkin Bread

My idea of a perfect fall breakfast: a thick slice of spicy pumpkin bread, slathered with apple butter, and a piping hot chai latte. The only problem is, most pumpkin breads are made with loads of oil and have tons of fat and calories. Not exactly a great way to start the day, right?

The solution: my one-bowl skinny pumpkin bread. It has fewer than 250 calories a slice, but it’s so moist, tender, and delicious you will never know the difference.

One-Bowl Skinny Pumpkin Bread

A few weeks ago, I was in a rush to leave for work and I forgot my travel coffee mug at home. Since my commute into Manhattan is close to 90 minutes (don’t worry–I only do it twice a week), this was a big deal. I had to endure a Metro North train ride plus a 20-minute, morning rush hour walk through Midtown completely uncaffeinated. Ugh.

When I finally got to my office I was bordering on desperate, so I treated myself to a chai latte from the Starbucks on the corner. It had been a long time since I last had one, and with one sip I was totally hooked again. Forget bringing coffee from home–I’ve been getting a chai latte every day that I go into work since.

Of course, while I am in Starbucks I’m always tempted to ditch my healthy plain-Greek-yogurt-and-a-banana breakfast in favor of one of their big fat sugary pastries. But the listed nutrition facts always keep me in check. A slice of Starbucks pumpkin bread has more than 400 calories and 15 grams of fat. Thanks, but no thanks.

One-Bowl Skinny Pumpkin Bread

Instead, I came home and set about developing this recipe for healthy pumpkin bread. It’s made with a blend of whole wheat flour and has only 4 tablespoons of oil in the whole loaf. But even though it is light on calories and fat, it’s definitely BIG on flavor: sweet pumpkin, fresh orange juice, tangy buttermilk, plus cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice.

Oh! And also: you can make the entire thing in a single bowl. It only takes a couple of minutes to whip up the batter, and there is virtually no mess to clean after. Fall baking, for the win!

When this pumpkin bread in the oven your whole house smells like the perfect fall day. I swear I just sat at the kitchen table while this loaf baked, inhaling all the deliciousness. Now if I could just perfect my chai latte recipe 🙂

PS: if you’re craving even more pumpkin, check out my Pumpkin Spice Angel Food Cake with Coffee Glaze!

One-Bowl Skinny Pumpkin Bread
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One-Bowl Skinny Pumpkin Bread

Author Turnip the Oven

Ingredients

  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/4 cup melted butter or vegetable, coconut, or olive oil
  • 1/3 cup orange juice or apple cider, or water
  • 1/4 cup low-fat buttermilk or plain yogurt thinned with a little milk
  • 3/4 cup canned pumpkin
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon Kosher salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
  • 2 tablespoons turbinado sugar optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9-x-5-inch loaf pan and line the bottom with a rectangle of parchment.
  2. In a large bowl, whisk the sugar, eggs, melted butter, orange juice, and buttermilk until smooth. Whisk in the pumpkin. Sift the all-purpose flour, whole wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice over the surface and stir with a wooden spoon just until combined.
  3. Pour into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with the turbinado sugar (if using). Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean and the edges are just starting to pull away from the sides of the pan, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool the bread in the pan for 20 minutes, then turn out and cool completely on a wire rack.

Recipe Notes

If you cut this loaf into 10 slices, each piece has about 230 calories and 6 grams of fat.

This one-bowl skinny pumpkin bread is moist, tender, and loaded with warming fall spices--for less than 250 calories a slice!

Filed Under: Bread, Breakfast, Food Gifts, Freezer-Friendly Tagged With: bread, pumpkin

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Comments

  1. Catherine says

    September 7, 2016 at 11:00 pm

    I love how easy this is and how good it is for you too! Your pumpkin bread looks so moist and hearty…a perfect welcome to Fall. xo, Catherine

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  2. Megan Marlowe says

    September 7, 2016 at 11:02 pm

    Lucy! This bread looks amazing! I’m totally baking some this weekend! You had me at skinny! 😉

    Reply
  3. Emily says

    September 7, 2016 at 11:57 pm

    These recipe looks so moist and perfect! And I always love when I only have to get one bowl dirty. Perfect timing for the Fall season, thanks!

    Reply
  4. Sandi (@fearless_dining) says

    September 8, 2016 at 12:14 am

    I love how moist this cake looks…and so few calories. Awesome!

    Reply
  5. Renee Sitavich says

    September 8, 2016 at 12:26 am

    I too am a sucker for a chai latte with pumpkin bread and apple butter. I have lots of apple butter waiting to be used and this looks like a great idea. I needed a change from banana bread!

    Reply

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