pumpkin ginger oat bread

An opened can of pumpkin combined with running across this recipe for pumpkin oat bread, lead to a house filled with an aroma so warming that I could have just curled up in it.

Buuut, it was 10 and I had work to do. So cutting two thick slices and eating them piece by delicious piece just had to do.



Pumpkin Ginger Oat Bread
Adapted from Naturally Ella's Pumpkin Oat Bread
Dense, delicious and super moist, this bread would be perfect to feed your family the morning after Thanksgiving, or to bring to your neighbors for the holidays, or to eat in mid July, or to...or to...really, it is just really that great anytime.



You will need::

• 3/4 cup old-fashioned oats
• 1 cup whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup roughly chopped walnut
• 1 tablespoon molasses
• 1.5 teaspoons fresh ginger, grated
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/2 cup maple syrup
• 1/4 cup almond milk
• 1/3 cup organic canola oil
• 2 flax eggs (2 tablespoons ground flax mixed with 5 tablespoons warm water)
• 1/4 cup chopped walnuts, 2 tablespoons oats and 1 tablespoon brown sugar for topping

Instructions::

Preheat oven to 350* and oil the bottom of an 8" x 8" loaf pan.

Make the flax egg by combining ground flax and water. Set aside.

Process 3/4 cups oatmeal until finely ground, almost to a flour. Put into a large bowl and stir in flour, baking soda, salt, nutmeg, cinnamon, and walnuts. Set aside.

In another bowl, combine pumpkin, molasses, ginger, syrup, milk, oil and flax eggs.

Mix wet ingredients into dry and fold together until just combined.

Sprinkle the top with nuts, oatmeal and brown sugar.

Pour into prepared pan and bake for 55-65 minutes, or until knife inserted into the middle comes out clean.. It the top begins to get too brown, cover with tin foil.



Yum. I seriously had just eaten breakfast and wasn't hungry when I pulled this out of the oven, but somehow those two slices disappeared in just minutes. Really though, how can you resist warm bread?