Today on Twitter Maria, Two Peas and Their Pod, and Jenny, Picky Palate, were tweeting about all the wonderful things everyone’s been baking up with pumpkin lately. I bought a six pack of cans of pumpkin from Costco last month, but hadn’t found time to bake with it yet. Maria suggested making Pumpkin Nutella Bread, which sounded like a perfect idea and I headed into the kitchen.
Last May I made a fabulous Banana Nutella Bread, but I remember wishing that the Nutella was swirled throughout the bread instead of just swirled on top. (Okay, I may have even spread some Nutella on a slice or two.) So I decided to adapt my favorite Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread recipe and do layers of Nutella swirled into the batter instead of chocolate chips.
I used a large ice cream scoop and spread three scoops of batter in the bottom of the loaf pan, added three little scoops of Nutella and swirled it in. I topped it with three more scoops of batter, three more scoops of Nutella swirled in and spread three more scoops of batter on top of the Nutella. I had concerns that the Nutella might be heavier than the batter and sink to the bottom, but the Nutella stayed nicely in place and I ended up with a beautiful swirl of Nutella throughout the bread.
I baked my Pumpkin Nutella Swirl Bread in my beautiful pumpkin pan I won last year from Jenny, Picky Palate! This bread is moist and tender and sweet and delicious. It makes a great after school snack but it’s also sweet enough to serve for dessert.
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter, soften
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 16 oz can of pure pumpkin
- 1/2 cup Nutella
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350?F and spray two medium loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray, or four/five mini loaf pans (5 3/4 x 3 1/4 x 2 1/4. Don't fill more than 2/3 full.)
- In a medium bowl, mix the flour, spices, salt, baking soda, and baking powder and set aside.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter and the sugar until fluffy, about two minutes. Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition. Add the pumpkin and combine well.
- Add the dry ingredients stirring until just combined.
- Layer 1/3 of the batter into the bottom of 2 loaf pans, swirl in a couple scoops of Nutella, do another layer of batter and another layer of Nutella and top with the remaining 1/3 of the batter.
- Bake side-by-side for about one hour or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. (Bake 35-40 minutes for the mini loaves.)
Notes
Substitute 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon plus 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg and 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves for 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice.
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Pumpkin bread I love….Nutella not so much. What’s wrong with me??? I have to be the only person in blogland who doesn’t love Nutella.
Yum!! I need to make this!
Looks nice and moist. I like nutella but I have nut allergy kids. Maybe mix in a little bit of chocolate chips? Thanks.
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I’ve never tasted Nutella. I like the shape of your bread pan and the bread looks delicious!
Oh my… that looks yummy indeed… I’m a girl, but sadly, I don’t even know how to turn on the oven.
oh wow! this sounds amaizing. i cant wait to make some of this soon.thank you for sharing this. and, just love your loaf pan:)
What a delicious approach to pumpkin bread and chocolate. I am drooling!
LOVE the pumpkin pan and I also gotta say that I used to make a chocolate chip pumpkin bread but this looks so much better! Yum! Taste please!
OMG Barbara you are killing me! Looks so fabulous!
Pumpkin and nutella? I never thought of that as a combination. I would have thought it weird, until I saw your post. Yum!
What an interesting idea for the current time of year. As someone who eats nutella by the spoonful, this is something I’d love to try.
Oh, 2 of my favourite ingredients – a match made in heaven for sure! Cute pan too.
Yum. Sounds so good. Perfect.
That looks gorgeous Barbara! What a great way to turn pumpkin into something decadent. Yum
I love pumpkins in bakes…with the addition of nutella… happiness!
I recently made a different pumpkin nutella bread, and LOVED it. This variation looks equally yummy–and I think your loaf pan is adorable!
What a beautiful pumpkin bread! Nutella is sooo yummy, thanks for sharing this great idea.
Oh Barbara – this first week of Feb brings us World Nutella day and I’ve been checking out recipes to make and link in honor if it. This looks SO good!! You might share it as a second post to: http://ceodraiocht.wordpress.com/decidedly-healthy-or-horridly-decadent-blog-hop/
I’m sure others would like to be reminded of this recipe as well! (I also tweeted the World Nutella day link and they’re collecting recipes on their site).
This looks wonderful! I love the idea of swirling the nutella throughout the bread!
This sounds so yummy!
Quick note to let you know that I featured this recipe in my Pumpkin Party wrap up post
My mom just gave me a jar of nuttella – I think this would be a perfect use for it and also keep me from eating the whole jar by the spoonful!
Hi! I have just made this recipe and cannot wait for the bread to come out of the oven! I would love to share it with my friends on my food blog, giving you credit of course! Would that be ok? Thank you!
Thanks for asking! Yes, feel free to share the recipe on your blog with a link to my post. Please let me know when it’s up. I’d love the read it.
Thank you so much! It will post tomorrow at 6am on my site, http://www.munchomom.com. The bread was absolutely delicious!!! Your recipe is definitely a keeper!
OMG – That bread looks too good to eat. I just printed the recipe and can’t wait to try it.
Thanks Lisa. It’s a fantastic combination.