This Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe is the BEST Fall Dessert!

This Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting looks too good to eat. This homemade recipe is even better than anything you can get from the coffee shop. The hardest part of this bread is trying not to eat the entire loaf in one sitting. It melts in your mouth, with the thick cream cheese frosting lingering on your lips.

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Why We Love Pumpkin Bread With Cream Cheese Frosting

It has all of my favorite fall flavors in one simple piece of sweet bread. I keep it in the refrigerator because I love how it tastes when the cream cheese frosting is chilled. This homemade pumpkin bread is dense and delicious and easy to make. All of the ingredients are easy to find, and this is the perfect recipe for beginning bakers.

How To Make Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting

Are you ready to make the best-tasting sweet bread you've ever baked? Then grab your bowl, it's time to bake and get ready for this delicious fall dessert!

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Ingredients you need to make Pumpkin Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting

Pumpkin Bread Ingredients:

• 1-¾ cup all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
• ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
• ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
• ¾ cup pumpkin puree
• 1-½ cups granulated sugar
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• ⅓ cup water
• 2 eggs

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Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients

• ½ brick 4 oz, cream cheese, softened
• ¼ cup butter softened
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 cups powdered sugar
• 1-3 Tablespoons half and half or milk

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Directions for how to make Pumpkin Dessert Bread

First, you are going to preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and grease and flour a loaf pan, then set that aside for now.

Next, in a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger.

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Mix these ingredients together well and set this aside.

Now, in a larger mixing bowl, add pumpkin puree, sugar, oil, water and eggs and mix well.

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Add flour mixture and mix just until combined.

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Then spread the pumpkin bread batter into your prepared loaf pan and bake it for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

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Make sure to let your pumpkin bread stand to cool completely before you begin to frost it!

Here are the Cream Cheese Frosting Directions:

Beat together cream cheese, butter, vanilla and powdered sugar. Add half and half or milk if necessary to thin the icing a bit to spread easier.

Spread the frosting evenly on top of your cooled pumpkin bread and slice it to serve.

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This Pumpkin Bread Recipe recipe makes 1 loaf, which has about 8 servings.

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