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Pumpkin Streusel Bread

Pumpkin streusel bread with a moist pumpkin crumb and a thick cinnamon-golden streusel topping. Baked until a toothpick tests clean, then cooled completely for clean slices.
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Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 20 minutes
Servings: 10 servings
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 320
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

Dry ingredients
  • 1.75 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 0.5 tsp salt
  • 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Pumpkin bread base
  • 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin puree
  • 0.5 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup brown sugar, packed
  • 0.25 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
Cinnamon streusel topping
  • 0.5 cup all-purpose flour for streusel
  • 0.33 cup brown sugar for streusel
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp cold butter, cubed

Equipment

  • 1 sheet pan
  • 1 9x5-inch loaf pan

Method
 

Prep and preheat
  1. Preheat oven to 350F, then grease and line a 9x5-inch loaf pan.
  2. Set out the pan so the batter can go in right after mixing.
Make the chilled streusel
  1. Rub streusel flour, brown sugar, cinnamon, and cold butter together into coarse crumbs, then chill.
Mix the pumpkin bread batter
  1. Whisk all-purpose flour, baking soda, salt, and pumpkin pie spice until evenly combined.
  2. Whisk pumpkin puree, vegetable oil, eggs, both sugars, and vanilla until smooth, then fold in the dry ingredients just until combined.
Assemble and bake
  1. Pour batter into the loaf pan and cover evenly with the chilled streusel.
  2. Bake 60 to 65 minutes until a toothpick comes out clean, tenting with foil after 40 minutes if browning fast.
Cool and slice
  1. Cool the loaf completely in the pan before slicing so the crumb sets.

Notes

For the thickest crumb topping, keep the butter cold and chill the streusel long enough to firm up before it hits the batter. Store airtight at room temperature for up to 3 days or refrigerate for up to 7 days; freeze sliced pieces for up to 2 months. For a dairy-free swap, use a dairy-free butter stick in the streusel while keeping everything else the same.