Pumpkin walnut loaf with cinnamon streusel

This pumpkin walnut loaf is light, springy, and fully embraces the holiday season. It’s layers of irresistible cinnamon walnut streusel adds another level of sweetness and takes it over the top.

The pumpkin puree, vegetable oil and buttermilk in the loaf helps keep it extra moist which means this cake is foolproof against dryness!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers out there! I’m so jealous of you all right now because we already had our round of Thanksgiving way back in October 🙁

I actually tried to convince mother deer that we should do Thanksgiving dinner all over again since it’s technically Thanksgiving…but she wasn’t having it because she knew that she would be doing all the work since I’m so busy these days.

But I wasn’t going to leave (American) Thanksgiving uncelebrated so I decided to bake up a pumpkin walnut loaf that was topped with cinnamon streusel!

This loaf actually reminded lil’ bun of the cinnamon coffee cake from Starbucks because of the ribbons of cinnamon-y goodness that were sandwiched between moist pumpkin cake. Then the crunchy walnuts created a textural surprise and a nice hint of nuttiness to round everything out.

I might not be able to fully celebrate Thanksgiving again, but this loaf definitely cheered me up!

Hope everyone has a fabulous Thanksgiving! What’s your favorite thing to have?

Pumpkin walnut loaf