This Spiced Pumpkin Beer Bread is an incredibly easy homemade bread. No yeast. No rise time. No kneading. A warm slice is perfect on a cool fall morning!
My mom is an incredible cook. I know everyone says that, but this is legit. Growing up, she used to make bread. She did it the old-fashioned way from a starter that she had to feed. When it baked, I could smell it all the way upstairs in my room.
The best part was that she brought it to me with coffee as I got ready in the morning… and the next day she used it to make french toast. (Which she also delivered to me… how spoiled was I?! Thanks, Mom!)
This post is not that bread. My mother’s daughter is impatient and more than a little scared of yeast. No, this post is about another sort of bread. My bread is baked with pumpkin beer!
This Spiced Pumpkin Beer Bread is easy to prepare. No feeding a mother, no yeast, and no kneading required. It’s ready in under an hour, which is perfect for my instant gratification needs.
Of course, it wouldn’t be me if I didn’t try to make a dessert-like bread healthier. This must be the healthiest beer bread in the world. Here are some healthy baking hacks I used:
- Egg whites and Greek yogurt replace some of the fat while keeping the bread moist.
- Xylitol, a natural sugar alternative, cuts the sugar a bit.
- Whole wheat flour and raw almond flour provide a cleaner and lower-carb base.
I love using NOW’s almond flour, because it is 100% pure, unblanched, and (naturally) low in carbs. How often do you see a lower carb beer bread? Raw almond flour is a healthy, delicious alternative to bleached white flour. Not to mention the incredible rich texture it adds to baked goods!
The beer, while not the healthiest ingredient in the world, is a fun seasonal add. Using it for a Spiced Pumpkin Beer Bread makes total sense. It’s deep, savory qualities balance the typical sugar-y sweetness in traditional pumpkin breads. With beer, there’s a complexity mixed in. It also eliminates the need to mess around with those little packets of yeast!
I used the Night Owl Pumpkin beer by Elsyian. It’s brewed with “seven and a half pounds of pumpkin per barrel and spiced in conditioning with ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice.” Thankfully, there was a little left over to entertain while the bread baked. 😉
The recipe will make two loaves, but I decided one was enough and used half of the batter for muffins. Muffins freeze really well to keep on-hand for single-serving emergencies. Also, the cooking time is much shorter… perfect for my impatient self.
Serve it for breakfast with a schemer of cream cheese, or as a side dish with any of your favorite fall recipes (soups, chilis… sweet ’n savory is my favorite combo!).
I wonder if I could put beer in my pumpkin pancakes… 😈
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This is a re-make – the original was posted in December of 2013. For 4 years I’ve been making this… time flies!
Have you ever made bread the old-fashioned way?
Did your mom make you breakfast growing up? After preschool… I’ll assume you were fed as a baby. 😉
I had no idea there was such a thing as pumpkin beer. This bread sounds delicious, I love all pumpkin bread especially when it is healthier such as this. I used to make lots of bread at the coffee shop, we had a whole room for proofing, it was kind of fun rollin in racks of bread and croissants that were tiny balls of dough and then coming back later to find them massively risen and puffy .
For real?! There’s pumpkin everything. 😉
Annnnd now I want a croissant.
I think this is a must bake ASAP!
Let me know if you try it!
I’m going to have to try that Elysian beer. I’ve been drinking the Ballast Point Pumpkin Down.
I was actually going for that one, but they didn’t carry it!
I’ve never had pumpkin beer but hey why not make it into pumpkin bread!?
That beer would pair really well with your bread!
This looks SOOO delicious!! I’ve actually never made bread from scratch but my old roomie always used to and it was amazing 🙂
Thank you! That sounds like a helluva roomie!
You put beer in pumpkin bread?? Whelp, that does it, you and I are best friends now. Your recipe looks and sounds so (swear word) amazing!
LOL! Thank you. I hope you try it out!
This looks incredible!! It’s officially bookmarked in my ‘recipes to try’ folder;)
Thanks so much! Please let me know what you think! 🙂
Your mom brought you bread and coffee in the morning!? Geez louise can I share her!?
This is brilliant. And somehow I wouldn’t expect this recipe from anyone else. I need to make this for Dan. And, thanks for the reminder that I still need to get myself some pumpkin beer this season. I do like the stuff.
LOL! She’s a pretty cool lady.
Let me know if you make it for Dan. Vegas totally liked it.
Beer in bread? Genius!!!
Oh my YUM!! Definitely making this for my upcoming Halloween party. Or…just because 😀
YAY! Do let me know how it goes! 🙂
I haven’t made bread from scratch in ages…. But I want to make my own sourdough soon so I had better get a starter culture going! Fermentation is always so gross but so cool at the same time!
I always laugh when folks talk about their mums cooking. Bless my mum tried but cooking really ain’t her forte! Ha!
Your poor mom!!! LOL! You should give her some bread. I mean, if she were close. I’d be coming by for a piece, that’s for sure!
Will your mom adopt me? LOL! Our moms are alike. And this bread… like whoa. think they have a GF version of that ale? Possibly a 1:1 GF flour will work?
YES. I wasn’t kidding when I said we should all hang out.
I seriously considered using GF flour, but I literally just got dome for the first time ever and I was too nervous. I know you could totally use any beer! Maybe the GF experiment will happen next…
I want. Especially as a prego.
You know I’d deliver if we were closer!
Wow, your mom was the bomb. Mine would turn the shower on for me in the morning and then get me out of bed. In return, I bit her, although it was only one time. Maybe I was having a bad dream or something.
Cheers to beer…in bread and my belly.
The shower thing is super sweet!!! Especially un there in the cold. But biting?! Rude. 😉