Gluten Free Pumpkin Gingerbread is moist, tender, and perfectly spiced. It combines all your favorite, cozy, holiday flavors in one perfect loaf!
What are some scents that always make you think of the holidays? For us gingerbread tops the list! Nothing compares to the nostalgic blend of sweet cinnamon, warming spices, and rich molasses that are so reminiscent of wintertime. Today, we're bringing things up a notch with this Gluten Free Pumpkin Gingerbread. Rich, moist, and perfectly spiced, Santa may ditch his Christmas cookies for a slice! We hope you and your family love this recipe as much as we do.
Why You'll Love This Recipe
It is MADE for the holidays
This bread is filled with the warm, delicious spices of the holiday season and combines the best parts of pumpkin pie and gingerbread in one. Enjoy each fall and winter holiday and anytime the craving hits!
Easy to make
This recipe is incredibly easy to make and the batter is more forgiving than traditional mixes.
It's gluten and dairy free (for those that need it)
We understand that not navigating the holidays with food allergies and intolerances can be tricky. This recipe delivers a gluten-and-dairy-free option that makes no sacrifice in texture or flavor. We've been told by many friends without restrictions that this is their go-to recipe.
Some Key Ingredients
Gluten-Free Flour Blend
Grab your favorite gluten free flour blend and ensure it has xanthan gum in the ingredient list. Xantham gum serves as a binder and provides the elasticity and texture traditionally given by wheat flours. Our go-to gluten free blends include Bob's Red Mill 1-to-1 and Trader Joe's Gluten Free All Purpose Flour.
Almond Flour
We LOVE baking with almond meal. It's the star of these Fudgy Almond Flour Brownies and works for most diet types. It adds texture and flavor and boosts the nutritional content of baked goods. Each ½ cup adds a whopping 12 grams of protein plus heart healthy fats and fiber! Almond flour also keeps baked goods moist. When purchasing almond flour, look for "super fine" texture and be sure to grab almond FLOUR and not almond MEAL.
Pumpkin
Pumpkin adds moisture and rich texture to this recipe and boosts the nutritional profile. We add just enough to get that pumpkin pie flavor while still allowing the gingerbread spices to come through.
Molasses
Molasses is essential for that quintessential gingerbread flavor. We recommend light (also called "fancy" or mild) or dark molasses for this loaf. Blackstrap molasses, while richest in vitamins and minerals, is a bit heavy for this particular recipe. We round out the sweetness with some maple syrup and balance with salt.
Gingerbread Spices
Cinnamon, ginger, allspice, cloves, and nutmeg make up the gingerbread spice mix. We use this particular blend in all our gingerbread creations, like baked oats and our Gingerbread Cashew Butter. In a pinch, you can replace cloves with allspice.
Icing
We like to dress our loaf with a simple powdered sugar icing. We've enjoyed this recipe both with and without icing and can genuinely say we love it both ways.
How To Make Pumpkin Gingerbread
This Gluten Free Pumpkin Gingerbread comes together in just a few easy steps!
Step 1
We start by combining our dry ingredients and mixing well to enure our spices get evenly distributed!
Step 2
Next, we combine our wet ingredients and whisk together until completely smooth.
Step 3
Now, we combine our wet and dry ingredients and fold together to combine.
Step 4
Once mixed, pour batter into a baking pan. We like to line ours with parchment paper for easy removal and cleanup!
Step 5
Finally, it's time to add the icing (if using). Be sure to let your loaf cool fully before adding.
Enjoy!
Gluten Free Pumpkin Gingerbread
Ingredients
- 1 cup gluten free flour blend can sub with whole wheat pastry flour
- 1 cup super fine almond flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- ⅛ teaspoon each, ground allspice, cloves, and nutmeg
- ¾ cup pumpkin purée
- 2 eggs
- ¼ cup light molasses
- ⅓ cup maple syrup
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoon avocado oil
Simple Icing - Optional
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 tablespoon milk of choice
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- To a large mixing bowl, add flours, salt, baking powder, and spices and mix well.
- To another bowl, add all remaining ingredients and whisk together until completely smooth.
- Add wet ingredients to dry and fold together until combined.
- Pour batter into a greased or lined loaf pan and bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 minutes (52 minutes was our sweet spot).
- Let cool for 15 minutes. Then carefully remove loaf from pan and transfer to a cooling rack. Let cool fully.
- While gingerbread cools, add powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract to a small bowl. Whisk together until completely smooth. NOTE: for a thicker icing, reduce milk.
- Once loaf has completely cooled, drizzle icing over the top.
This recipe looks amazing! I love all thinks pumpkin and adding gingerbread sounds like such a great combination! I will definitely be making this soon, especially for the holiday season! 🙂
I am obsessed with pumpkin bread! I get it made for my birthday every year instead of cake. When I go home for Thanksgiving break in a week, I want to make this with my mom for my birthday. This looks so good and I cannot wait to try it.
Made this with my friends last weekend for a fall friendsgiving party! It was such a hit that everyone could enjoy since it was gluten free! Will definitely be making this again!
I love this! It's in perfect time for the holidays and I have a couple friends with celiac disease that I have to special make foods for and this is perfect! Can't wait to make this all Christmas season!!
Made this for my family when they came to visit and the plate was empty in seconds. Loved every bite. Can't wait to make it again for other people to try and enjoy.
I made these for my roommates last week and they were so good. We liked them because they tasted healthy but really good at the same time which is hard to find nowadays. Loved it
This recipe looks super good!! I love the combination of gingerbread and pumpkin! I can't wait to try it!!
This recipe is perfect for fall!! I will be making it again for Thanksgiving for my gluten-free family members.
This looks amazing!! I love pumpkins desserts!!
This looks really good, and I will definitely be making it for Thanksgiving when I go home!!
This was amazing!! It was a huge hit with all my friends, and we had so much fun making it together. It's the perfect fall snack and even better that it is gluten free!
This is an amazing fall treat that was very delightful and a major plus that it was gluten-free! It was a big hit at my friend's gathering, and I will definitely be making it again. The pumpkin and the ginger gave it such an amazing flavor, I will definitely be craving it!
I haven’t made this yet but it looks great! One of my family’s favorites to make for Thanksgiving so will definitely be adding to the list! Can’t wait!
AMAZING recipe!! I made it this weekend for all my friends. Everyone loved it! They all raved about the icing!! I added some chocolate chips, and it made it even sweeter!!! Great recipe can't wait to make it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This recipe looks amazing. I will definitely be making this with my mom over Christmas break! Pumpkin-flavored foods are my mom's favorite. So excited to make this!
This recipe looks amazing! One of my favorite dishes to make in the fall with my mom is Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread! This recipe sounds like a mixture of Thanksgiving and Christmas and I hope to make it when I visit back home for Thanksgiving!
i haven't made this yet but im so excited to go back home this summer and make it. My dad loves pumpkin bread, and my mom is gluten-free, so its the best of both. I also loved that all the ingredients were simple so i wont be having to go out and buy a bunch of different things to make this. I cant wait to tell my parents and we make this together.
I made this when I went home for spring break with my sister & my whole family loved this! Will definitely be making this again!
This loaf is the perfect fall dessert. I can not wait to bring it to a holiday party!
I made this for my roommates and I over the weekend and it was a huge hit! Everyone loved it and asked me to make it again!!
I happen to be Celiac and this recipe is one of my favorites I have made thus far. It was very easy to make and tasted absolutely amazing.
I absolutely love pumpkin bread and some of my friends are gluten-free. We have never been able to find a recipe that tastes the same but this is perfect! We enjoyed it so much and make it often!
After reading all of the steps to make this Gluten Free Pumpkin Gingerbread, I knew I wanted to make it. My cousin is gluten free and we made it together. I was surprised at how delicious this gingerbread was. I will definitely make this again, I rate it a 10/10!
Definitely a 5 star gingerbread!
I read this recipe and was interested in making this because my sister is gluten free. After I made this I assumed it would not have a great taste because it is gluten free. This tasted amazing it had a great flavor of pumpkin and sweetness. Overall, I thought this was a 10/10 recipe.
As someone who has recently been trying to cut out dairy, this recipe is AMAZING- not just the taste but is also so easy to make!
Super easy and soooo good! Im not a huge pumpkin fan (but love gingerbread) and it was still amazing!
This looks amazing!! I cannot wait to make it for my friends who are gluten free!
I am a big fan of pumpkin bread, so I wanted to try this! It was amazing! My mom loved it too! Can't wait to try another recipe! Thank you for sharing.
I made this for my mom who is gluten free, she LOVED it!
I love gingerbread and can't wait to try this recipe! This is perfect for my family because my brother is gluten free!
Im super excited to try out this recipe this week. I am a huge fan of anything pumpkin, cinnamon, or with winter spices so when I saw this recipe I knew I had to try it. Nothing beats warm pumpkin bread and especially with icing! And hugeee bonus points for it being gluten free!
I would really like to make this recipe! It looks so yummy for the rainy season and my sister is gluten free so it would be perfect for her!
my Grandmother has celiac disease so she can't eat most food. I'm so excited to show her this recipe and make it with her! I love gingerbread flavored things and I'm so excited to try this next time I see her.
My roommates and I made this last night because one of us is gluten free and it was amazing! Just sent to my parents back in Philly because my mom love to bake so definitely going in our baking recipes.
I LOVE pumpkin, so this recipe looks amazing! A lot of my family has to have gluten free things, so this would make a perfect recipe to make in the fall especially around Thanksgiving. I can’t wait to test this out one day. It looks delicious!
This recipe looks great for the holidays! I cannot wait to make this for my mom when I get back home as she cannot eat gluten but is a big fan of gingerbread.
This is the perfect recipe for gatherings and events during the holiday season! Pumpkin and gingerbread are two of my favorite flavors and this recipe combined both in such a delicious way (and is gluten free:). I will definitely be making this again, thank you for sharing!
This recipe looks so good and I am so excited to try it! I love pumpkin and gingerbread separately, so I can only imagine how good this will be. This is a definite try over Thanksgiving break.
Pumpkin gingerbread is one of my favorites. My mom is always wanting a different dessert to try for thanksgiving and she is wanting to make this!
This recipe sounds absolutely delicious! Pumpkin bread is one of my favorite fall treats so I will definitely attempt to make this at home. I think I'm going to add the icing on top but I'm sure it would be great either way.
This looks absolutely delicious!!! Can’t wait to try and make this for my GF roommate!
This recipe was so easy to make and so delicious! Me and my roommates made it together and loved it, and it is perfect for the holidays!
This recipe looks delicious, I am a huge fan of pumpkin bread. I am going to have to try this recipe soon! I bet it tastes amazing!
This recipe stood out to me because my mom also makes pumpkin bread around Thanksgiving. We both looked at this recipe and the alternatives you guys use compared to our recipe sound so good. We decided to use this recipe for Thanksgiving and could not be more excited!
This looks amazing! As someone who has such a sweet tooth this recipe would be perfect for fall and cold night. I cannot wait to try this out!
As someone who can never find a good gluten-free recipe for anything, this turned out to be delicious.
As someone who is dairy-free and loves a warm, fall dessert, I cannot wait to try out this recipe when I go home for Thanksgiving!
This recipe looks amazing. I love the combination of the pumpkin and the gingerbread. I am definitely going to make this with my roommates and cannot wait to try it out.
I love this recipe! I have so many friends who are gluten-free so this is an amazing thing to make for them so they can still be included in holiday desserts! I can't wait to try this out for them!!!
I made this recipe over the weekend with my roommate. We loved it! Great way to start October! Thanks for sharing.
this looks amazing!! me and my mom are going to try it for thanksgiving!!
My family loves pumpkin and gingerbread-flavored stuff. This recipe looks so good and I love that its gluten free. Can't wait to make my family this!
This gingerbread is delicious! I have to try to make this! I am trying to eat more gluten-free desserts! I can't wait to make this for my roommates in the fall season!
This looks like an awesome and delicious dessert for the fall. I love making pumpkin bread with my family around thanksgiving, and I can't wait to try this new recipe!
Super cool recipe. My mom is gluten free so I look forward to making this with her. She has a sweet tooth just like me so I know this recipe will be of interest to her. I may surprise her and bake it for us. I think she’d really like this. I love how you included gluten free recipes on your page, many people forget about people with celiac conditions. I love this and it’s perfect for fall.
Sounds awesome and cannot wait to try and make it!
This recipe looks great and makes me excited for fall! I am going to try to make it with my friends
This is a great recipe, I made it for my college roommates and it was gone very quickly! I look forward to making it for my family over thanksgiving. I was so happy to see this recipe was gluten free and could be enjoyed by my friends with dietary restrictions, this is so important.
This is such a fun dish for the holidays! Thanks for sharing!
This recipe was amazing!!! I made it for a dessert for my family and it was a hit, I will definitely be making it again! It was super easy and simple.
This recipe was the perfect dessert for my family. They were also so impressed that I could make this when I came home from college for the weekend. Thanks so much!
I love this recipe!! It tastes like fall and is so easy to make!! Thank you for making it gluten free!!
Hi Tami, what incredible feedback! Thank you so much for trying and we are so glad you enjoyed it.
This gingerbread is moist, tender, and full of all the flavors of the holiday season! First saw the recipe on Tik Tok and had to try. Thanks.
So glad the recipe was a hit! Thank you!
This gingerbread is delicious! It was my first venture into gluten free baking and I have to say that it turned out amazing! I love it! My kids love it! Overall great recipe that I will be adding to my collection 🙂
Hi Stacey, we are so happy to hear the recipe was a hit with all members of the family!
This was such a delicious and festive recipe! Thank you for sharing!
Hi Christina, we are so glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thank you!