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Pumpkin Sour Cream Bread with Sour Cream Glaze

My much loved old fashioned pumpkin bread recipe got an update with the addition of sour cream and a sour cream glaze. This pumpkin sour cream bread is soft tender, and with the sour cream each slice is a little bit special.
Course Snack
Cuisine American, Canadian
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings 2 loaves
Cost $5.00

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 cups pumpkin puree or one 15-oz can
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 2 ½ tsp pumpkin spice OR
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp ginger
  • ½ tsp nutmeg
  • ¼ tsp allspice
  • ½ cup full-fat sour cream
  • ½ cup unsalted butter softened
  • ¾ cup icing sugar sifted
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions

  • Instructions

Pumpkin Bread

  • Preheat oven to 325°F (165°C). Grease and flour two 9x5 loaf pans.
  • In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add sour cream and beat until smooth.
    Mixing sour cream into well beaten butter using an electric mixer. The first step to making a pumpkin loaf recipe with sour cream.
  • Add sugar and mix well. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla.
    The wet ingredients for a pumpkin loaf recipe, their is a 2 cup portion of pumpkin puree being added to the bowl.
  • Mix in pumpkin puree until fully combined.
  • In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and pumpkin spice (or individual cinnamon, ginger nutmeg and alspice).
    A large clear bowl filled with flour, baking soda, baking powder, and pumpkin spice.
  • Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the wet pumpkin mixture. Stir gently until just combined (do not overmix).
    Wet ingredients being added to the middle of a bowl of dry ingredients for a pumpkin bread with sour cream recipe.
  • Divide batter evenly between prepared loaf pans.
    A bowl full of beautiful orange pumpkin bread batter.
  • Bake for 60–70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
  • Cool in pans for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely before glazing.

Sour Cream Glaze

  • In a medium bowl, beat the butter and sour cream together until smooth and creamy.
    A bowl filled with whipped butter and whipped sour cream for making sour cream glaze.
  • Gradually add sifted icing sugar, mixing until fluffy.
    A clear glass bowl filled with light and cream sour cream glaze for placing onto a baked pumpkin bread.
  • Stir in vanilla. Spread over cooled pumpkin loaves.