Pumpkin Bread Lab142 recipes

Pumpkin Bread Lab · Calculator

Design your own pumpkin bread

The sliders start at the typical loaf: the median of 142 recipes for each ingredient, in grams per 100 g of flour. Move any of them within the range that 90% of recipes use (the 5th to the 95th percentile) and the grams update, with where your choice sits among the recipes and what that ingredient does.

This scales ratios; it is not a tested recipe. Each ingredient moves on its own against the flour, and a combination no recipe uses may not bake the way you expect. For the method, pan and oven, follow the real recipes nearest your numbers.

Flour

250 g, about 2 cups, makes one typical loaf.

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Grams per 100 g of flour

  1. 315 g · 126%

    In the middle: 50% of recipes use more, 50% less.

    Pumpkin puree is the liquid and the color; more makes a denser, moister loaf.

  2. 285 g · 114%about 1 1/2 cups

    In the middle: 51% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Pumpkin bread is among the sweetest quick breads; brown sugar adds a molasses note.

  3. 125 g · 50%about 1/2 cup

    In the middle: 44% of recipes use more, 54% less.

    Usually oil, for a crumb that stays soft.

  4. 115 g · 46%about 2 1/2 large eggs

    In the middle: 45% of recipes use more, 54% less.

    Eggs set the loaf around a heavy puree.

  5. 6 g · 2.4%

    In the middle: 47% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves, or a pumpkin pie spice blend.

  6. 9 g · 3.4%

    In the middle: 47% of recipes use more, 49% less.

    Mostly baking soda.

  7. 3.5 g · 1.4%

    In the middle: 45% of recipes use more, 44% less.

    Salt sharpens the spice.

Your pumpkin bread

Your pumpkin bread in grams, with approximate volumes
IngredientGrams
Flour250 gabout 2 cups
Pumpkin315 g
Sugarwhite sugar, brown sugar, honey and syrups285 gabout 1 1/2 cups
Fatbutter, oil and shortening125 gabout 1/2 cup
Eggwhole eggs, yolks and whites115 gabout 2 1/2 large eggs
Spicecinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and other ground spices6 g
Leaveningbaking soda and baking powder9 g
Salt3.5 g
Total1,109 g

1,109 g in all from 250 g of flour, counting only the groups above.

Closest real recipe: Pumpkin Bread (livewellbakeoften.com).

BakeThe median of 133 recipes is 350°F (175°C), most for 48 to 63 minutes at their own size. A bigger or smaller batch, or a different pan, changes the time.

The 3 real recipes nearest your numbers

Measured on pumpkin, sugar, fat, egg, spice, leavening and salt at once. These are published, tested recipes: follow one for its method, pan and timing, or load its percentages and adjust from there.

  1. 1

    Pumpkin Bread · livewellbakeoften.com

    pumpkin 119% · sugar 119% · fat 52% · egg 48% · spice 2.4% · leavening 4% · salt 1.4%

  2. 2

    Plumcake alla zucca - pumpkin bread · ricettedalmondo.it

    pumpkin 120% · sugar 107% · fat 55% · egg 50% · spice 2% · leavening 3% · salt 1.5%

  3. 3

    Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread · chefsavvy.com

    pumpkin 131% · sugar 112% · fat 58% · egg 53% · spice 2.8% · leavening 3.2% · salt 1.6%

How the calculator works

Every recipe is reduced to baker's percentages: grams of each ingredient group per 100 g of flour. The starting point is the median of all 142 recipes for each group separately, so no single recipe is exactly the starting loaf. Grams are your flour weight times each percentage, rounded to the nearest 5 g above 50 g and the nearest gram or half gram below.

“More than 80% of recipes” counts the recipes with strictly less of that ingredient per gram of flour. The nearest recipes are measured on every ingredient at once, each scaled by how much recipes vary on it, so a wide-ranging ingredient does not outweigh a narrow one.

Only the groups listed are counted. Vanilla, spices, mix-ins and toppings are left out unless they have their own slider. Volumes are approximate: flour at 125 g a cup, sugar 200 g, butter or oil 225 g, a large egg 50 g.