Brown Butter Pumpkin Loaf

Some of my most popular recipes are my loaves. It started with the brown butter banana bread: she’s simple, trustworthy, gorgeous, and well loved. Then she got an equally delicious cousin, the brown butter zucchini bread. And because fall baking is officially here (and I’m finally sooo ready for it), it feels like the right time to give the loaf family a fall addition. Enter: my Brown Butter Pumpkin Loaf.

I’ve always loved adding fruits and vegetables to baked goods because they do so much more than just add flavor. They bring a ton of moisture. Think zucchini bread, carrot cake (or, in this case, bread), banana bread – all of those recipes get that wonderfully soft, tender texture from the produce itself. Pumpkin works the exact same way, which is why it makes such a good loaf. You get a super moist, tender crumb without having to do anything particularly complicated.