Ingredients:

  • 3/4 cup warm water
  • 1/2 cup pure pumpkin purée
  • 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • 1/3 cup maple syrup
  • 3 cups bread flour
  • 2 tsp instant yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Instructions:

  1. Add the wet ingredients to the bread pan in the following order: warm water, olive oil, maple syrup, and pumpkin purée.
  2. Carefully pour the bread flour over the wet ingredients, ensuring it creates a complete blanket covering the liquids.
  3. Create a small indentation in the flour (without reaching the water) and add the instant yeast.
  4. Sprinkle the salt, cinnamon, and pumpkin pie spice in separate corners of the pan.
  5. Select the 'Basic White' or 'Whole Wheat' setting and choose the 'Medium Crust' option.
  6. Start the machine. Approximately 10 minutes into the kneading cycle, open the lid and use a silicone spatula to scrape any dry flour pockets from the corners of the pan.
  7. Once the cycle is complete, remove the loaf from the pan and place it on a wire cooling rack to finish.