This is a moist, tender quick bread with the rich flavors of fall. It’s studded with sweet cinnamon chips which creates almost a little sugar crust on the outside of the bread.
I had planned to make my favorite Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread, but when I went to the pantry to get the chocolate chips my big bag of mini cinnamon chips was sitting there looking irresistible. So I decided to switch it up a bit and make these cute little shaped Pumpkin Cinnamon breads. (I couldn’t decided if I should call them breadlets, cakelets, muffins? But we definitely called them delicious!)
Hershey’s makes Cinnamon Chips, I used Merkens mini Cinnamon Baking Chips from Gygi, and King Arthur also sells mini cinnamon chips. If you’re up for it Renata made some impressive homemade cinnamon chips. Of course if you can’t find cinnamon chips, this recipes is fantastic with chocolate chips too.
Pumpkin Cinnamon Bread
Ingredients
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 cup butter soften
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 16 oz can of pure pumpkin
- 1 ½ cups cinnamon chips
Cinnamon Drizzle
- ⅔ cup cinnamon chips
- 1 ½ teaspoons shortening do not use butter, margarine, spread or oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º and spray two medium loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray. (I made 12 mini pumpkins and 2 mini loafs 5 ¾ x 3 ¼ x 2 ¼.) Don’t fill more than ⅔ full.
- In a medium bowl, combine 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.
- Coat the cinnamon chips with 2 T. flour and stir into batter. Spoon batter into prepared pans.
- Bake side-by-side for about one hour or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. (Bake mini pumpkins 25- 30 and 35-40 minutes for the mini loaves.)
- Cinnamon Drizzle
- Melt in microwave at high for 1 minute; stir until chips are melted and mixture is smooth.
Notes
Other quick bread recipes you might like:
Banana Nutella Bread, Barbara Bakes
Snickerdoodle Bread, Barbara Bakes
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Bread, Barbara Bakes
Apple Spice Quick Bread, Mountain Mama Cooks
Lemon Blueberry Tea Cake, Baked Bree
Claire @ Claire K Creations
I’ve never seen cinnamon chips here in Australia but I’ll have to look out for them. I absolutely love anything cinnamon flavoured so I will look very hard!
Danellesdish
I love everything pumpkin and these look great. Can’t wait to try them.
teresa
those are some seriously adorable bundt cakes! they look just delicious too!
Alison @ Ingredients, Inc
these look incredible. Just put on Facebook and my fan page
Melanie
I love the cinnamon chips too. I always stock up when I see them on sale. What a wonderful sounding quick bread!! Love the picture with the ghost and pumpkin in it.
Ashley @ Kitchen Meets Girl
I’m a sucker for pumpkin bread, and I just so happen to have some cinnamon chips on reserve–must be a sign I need to make these. 🙂 These little cakes are so lovely!
megan @ whatmegansmaking
These are so cute! a nice switch from traditional pumpkin bread 🙂
Baker Street
I love small bundts. Pumpkin and cinnamon are a lovely combination. I love the cinnamon glaze you used on these gorgeous little cakes.
Amy
These are adorable. Yes, they sure look delicious to me. 🙂 What a lovely creation.
Deborah
I love cinnamon chips, but don’t use them nearly enough. These look so delicious!!
tiffany ~food finery
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 🙂 oh my! these sound tasty my friend!
Lisa
Barb, WOW, those little pumpkin bundt breads are so beautiful that they should be on the cover of every cooking/baking/lifestyle magazine in existence! Would you believe I’ve never tried cinnamon chips? I think that could be categorized as sacrilege in the blogosphere 😉 Well, now I have a reason to try them!
Jamie
Oh boy is it time to get out my mini bundt pans! Pumpkin now on the market, too! Looks like an awfully tasty and cute autumn to me!!! Hope you are well, Grandma Barbara! xo
Donna
I have seen those cinnamon chips in the store, but have never tried them. Thanks for the inspiration!
Juliana
Oh! These look so pretty and so tasty, I love the idea of cinnamon chips. Absolutely perfect for the season.
Hope you have a great week ahead Barbara 🙂
Kathleen
These look and sound delish!!!
Jersey Girl Cooks
These are adorable! Love cinnamon chips.
cindy
I finally found cinnamon chips. I’ve got to try these. Thanks for telling me how full to fill pans. I have odd sized pans and never know how much batter to put in the pan. This helps.
Rosa
Wonderful! Lipsmackingly good, I’m sure.
Cheers,
Rosa
Becky at VintageMixer
These look super tasty AND cute!!!