This amazing gluten free pumpkin bread is fluffy and moist using no flour! Everyone will love this cozy-spiced loaf.
So here’s the thing. This gluten free pumpkin bread is mind boggling…because it’s so fluffy and light, you’ll think that it must have gluten! This quick bread is our favorite trick for fall, and we’ve already been testing it on lots of friends and family. The best part? It’s made of 100% oats, no refined flour at all! It’s cozy spiced, just sweet enough and packed with all the nutritional benefits of oats. You’ll love it, your friends will love it, and they’ll be amazed there’s no gluten to speak of.
The trick to gluten free pumpkin bread? Blend up oats!
The trick to this bread is that it’s all made in a blender. That also makes it seriously easy to whip up, because all your mess is contained in one place! Here are a few notes about this magic trick:
- Use Old Fashioned rolled oats. Don’t even think about substituting steel cut oats: they have a much different texture! The blender can blend down rolled oats in a matter of seconds into homemade oat flour.
- Use a great blender. You’ll want a good blender as your workhorse! A high speed blender works best, but you can use a standard blender. Just blend until the oats are ground into a find powder.
Use purchased oat flour as a substitute
If you’d like, you can also use purchased oat flour as a substitute for the rolled oats! Use an equal amount of the flour. Typically store-bought oat flour is ground very finely, which makes for a perfect light and fluffy texture. Looking for what to do with oat flour? Try our Oat Flour Recipes.
Use purchased or homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice!
The best part of this gluten free pumpkin bread is the spices! This bread is spice-forward, to conjure up all those fuzzy sweater and fire-side vibes. You can use purchased pumpkin pie spice, but we like making our own! We find it makes for the absolute best spice blend. You can also use your own spices to approximate it without making the whole batch. Here are a few options:
- Make a batch: Mix up this Pumpkin Pie Spice: it makes ¼ cup, which is enough for 2 pumpkin bread recipes
- Substitute these spices: For the 2 tablespoons pumpkin spice in the recipe, use 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon each ground ginger and allspice, and ½ teaspoon each cloves and nutmeg.
What to expect with this gluten free pumpkin bread
Two things to note about this gluten free pumpkin bread! Because it’s made of 100% rolled oats, the texture is slightly more dense than a traditional loaf. (See a few tricks on how to manage that below.) But, the overall feedback is that it’s impressively fluffy! It’s also just sweet enough: not as sweet as most pumpkin breads, which can be intensely sweet. Here’s what a few of our recipe testers had to say:
- “Made the gluten free pumpkin bread for a party and everyone loved it. Loved how it is healthy with all natural ingredients.”
- “I would have never guessed this was gluten free! The last pumpkin bread recipe I made with oats was SO dense and lacked pumpkin flavor. This one is so light! LOVE!”
Make sure to cool fully, and cut thick slices!
Two notes on making the perfect gluten free pumpkin bread:
- Make sure to cool it fully. Do not try to cut this bread before it’s cooled! If you cut it right out of the oven, it will crumble and fall apart.
- Cut thick slices! Because there’s no gluten, it’s best to cut thick slices (as you see in the photo). This ensures the slices will stay together.
And that’s it! We hope you love this gluten free pumpkin bread and that it becomes a favorite as it has in our house.
Want a gluten free vegan pumpkin bread?
It’s easy: all you have to do is substitute the eggs with flax eggs! A flax egg is water and ground flax seed, which works as a binder in vegan baked goods. The texture will change a bit, but flax eggs work well as substitutes for vegan baking.
More gluten free blender breads and muffins
There are so many tasty gluten free quick breads and muffins! We love the oats in a blender method especially for muffins. Here are a few more muffin recipes and breads using this technique:
- Try our fan favorite Healthy Banana Bread Muffins
- Whiz up a loaf of Healthy Banana Bread
- Sample Blueberry Oatmeal Muffins or Favorite Applesauce Muffins
- Whip up a batch of Banana Oatmeal Pancakes or Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
This gluten free pumpkin bread recipe is…
Vegetarian and gluten-free.
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The BEST Gluten Free Pumpkin Bread
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour
- Yield: 10 to 12 slices 1x
Description
This amazing gluten free pumpkin bread is fluffy and moist using no flour! Everyone will love this cozy-spiced loaf.
Ingredients
- 3 cups Old Fashioned rolled oats (or 3 cups purchased oat flour; do not substitute steel cut or instant oats)
- ½ cup sugar or coconut sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice*
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- ½ cup neutral oil
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Grease an 8 or 9-inch bread pan with coconut oil or oil.
- Add the oats to a blender and blend until the oats are finely ground and resemble a flour. Add all the remaining ingredients to the blender. Blend until they all come together into a fully smooth batter, stopping and scraping the bowl of the blender as necessary.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake 45 to 50 minutes, until a toothpick comes out mostly clean (the exact timing depends on the size of pan and your oven).
- Allow to cool in the pan until room temperature (this is important for the texture). Run a knife around the edges and invert. Slice into thick pieces and serve (because it’s 100% oats, thicker slices are better). Storage info: Stores for about 3 days at room temperature: keep it on a cutting board and cover with a towel. Or store refrigerated for 1 week, or freeze it in slices for up to 3 months.
Notes
*Or use 1 tablespoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon each ground ginger and allspice, and ½ teaspoon each cloves and nutmeg.
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: Gluten Free
- Diet: Gluten Free
Keywords: Gluten free pumpkin bread
Hello! Thank you for this recipe. Can I sub apple sauce to oil?
We wouldn’t recommend substituting applesauce for oil because the texture of the bread becomes very dense with no oil. But you are welcome to try! You could also do 1/2 applesauce and 1/2 oil — that would be a better result. This bread is trick because it’s all oats already, so substituting applesauce too makes it have an odd texture.
This was perfect for a gluten free gift for a friend. I also made the healthy pumpkin bread for my non gluten free friends and for once I liked the gluten free better. Delicious oat flavor.
★★★★★
So glad you enjoyed!