Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread delicious and light for the holidays.
I think after all these years I finally get it, my family hates pumpkin.
I excitedly packed up my baked goods and headed home to share these goodies with my family and bff, Anu.
Naturally, my bff and her kid loved my Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread.
My family on the other hand, uhm, not so much.
Lately, I’ve been getting accustomed to comments such as:
Pumpkin, again?
Why do you keep making pumpkin desserts when you know none of us like it?
Why didn’t you add nuts?
You didn’t add nuts last time either.
Next time make sure you bake something with nuts.
Man, talk about abuse!
I realize pumpkin is most definitely an acquired taste, but when it’s fall, you bake with pumpkin.
Well, I hope you guys will appreciate this delicious treat I made with just a couple tablespoons of coconut oil, whole wheat pastry flour, semi-sweet chocolate chips and Greek yogurt for added moisture.
This bread is relatively healthy, slightly sweet and extremely moist, but it isn’t airy and springy like cake. This is bread. Toast a slice of this Pumpkin Bread and slather on some almond butter. Pure bliss! 🙂
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread (100% whole wheat + healthy)
Ingredients
- Organic Whole Wheat Pastry Flour - 1 2/3 cups
- Baking Soda - 1 tsp
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Nutmeg - 1/2 tsp
- Ginger - 1/4 tsp
- Salt - 1/4 tsp
- Sugar in the Raw Natural Cane Turbinado Sugar - 3/4 cup
- Organic Eggs - 2
- Trader Joe's Organic Pumpkin - 1 15 ounce can
- Fage 2% Greek Yogurt - 1 7 ounce container
- Organic Coconut Oil - 2 tbsp melted
- Pure Vanilla Extract - 1 1/2 tsp
- Ghirardelli Mini Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips - 3/4 cup
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a loaf pan and dust with a little flour to prevent the bread from sticking to the pan.
- In a medium size mixing bowl, combine all the dry ingredients together… flour, baking soda, ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and salt. Stir and set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the wet ingredients together… pumpkin, brown sugar, eggs, Greek yogurt, coconut oil and vanilla. Mix until well combined.
- Add the dry ingredients to the wet. Mix, but DO NOT over mix.
- Add the chocolate chips. DO NOT mix, FOLD.
- Pour the batter into the greased loaf pan.
- Into the oven for 50-55 minutes.
- Done. Wait for the bread to cool before cutting into slices.
Nutrition
Yup, gotta bake with pumpkin at this time of the year or risk getting thrown out of the Food Blogger’s Union. 🙂 I love pumpkin. And it’s good with nuts! 🙂 Fun stuff — thanks.
Lol, yeah exactly. That’s my agenda. I try and bake using seasonal items. I love pumpkin too, I should have added nuts. Well, there is always next year.
i love pumpkin bread with extra spices…and chocolate is always great. i am so with you – when its Fall you bake with pumpkin. my boyfriend says the same thing and i just roll my eyes 😛
Lol.. yeah, I roll my eyes too. I gotta bake with pumpkin in the fall, mainly for my blog so yeah I do have an agenda. 🙂