Delicious Pumpkin Chocolate Bread
If there’s anything that makes the Tiny Kitchen Assistant happy, it’s adding chocolate chips to everything: there are no muffins, pancakes or quick breads that are safe from his tinkering.
Personally, I think it’s genius.
This recipe is no exception. We took a basic family quick bread recipe and added half a bag of Ghirardelli chocolate chips, with excellent results.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread
Serves | 16 |
Prep time | 25 minutes |
Cook time | 1 hour |
Total time | 1 hour, 25 minutes |
Allergy | Egg, Milk, Wheat |
Meal type | Bread, Breakfast, Dessert |
Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable |
Ingredients
- .33 cup Vegetable oil
- .33 cup Applesauce (unsweetened is necessary, cinnamon is preferred)
- 1 cup Honey
- 2 teaspoons Vanilla extract
- 4 Eggs
- 3.5 cups Whole wheat flour
- 1/2 bag Semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 3 cups Pumpkin puree (or 1.5 cans)
- 2 teaspoons Cinnamon (ground)
- .5 teaspoon Ginger (powdered)
- .5 teaspoon Nutmeg (ground)
- .5 teaspoon Cloves (ground)
- .5 teaspoon Allspice (ground)
- 1 teaspoon Salt
- 2 teaspoons Baking soda (dissolved in 1/2 cup hot water)
Note
Makes two loaves: one for you and one to share.
Directions
Step 1 | |
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease the bottoms and sides of two loaf pans. | |
Step 2 | |
In the bowl of your stand mixer, beat oil, applesauce and honey together. Add eggs and mix well. Stir in pumpkin and vanilla. | |
Step 3 | |
In a separate bowl, mix flour, salt and spices. | |
Step 4 | |
Add the flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture, stirring gently until fully mixed. | |
Step 5 | |
Dissolve baking soda in hot water, stir to mix, and then add to batter. Blend in chocolate chips. | |
Step 6 | |
Spread batter into two loaf pans. Bake for 55-60 minutes. The bread is done when a toothpick or skewer inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. | |
Step 7 | |
Cool on a wire rack for at least 30 minutes before slicing. |
Results
“Ooh! I really like this! I need to take some to my teachers, and make some more for us so I can take it to school for snack, and… ooh! Yum!”
The Husband admits that this is good for what it is, but thinks that I should focus my attention on the pumpkin pie bars from last week. Priorities, people.
Tags: bake, bread, chocolate, kid-friendly, oven, pumpkin, snack