Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread | Mel’s Kitchen Cafe

This excellent pumpkin chocolate chip bread is loaded with chocolate chips. Fluffy and tremendous moist, it tastes even higher the following day!

12 months after yr, pumpkin season after pumpkin season, and with all of the variations of pumpkin chocolate chip bread in the marketplace, that is the one recipe I flip to.

It has been a tried-and-true favourite for over ten years.

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Batter

This recipe is very simple.

For the moist elements:

• Canned pumpkin
• Eggs
• Sugar (not a moist ingredient, however we’re including it right here)
• Oil or a combo of oil and applesauce
• Water, milk or buttermilk (scrumptious any which method)

As soon as the moist elements are properly mixed, the dry elements are added. Nothing finicky right here – simply your fundamental flour + heat fall spices + baking soda and salt.

Variations

It pains me to even say this out loud, however the chocolate chips are technically non-obligatory.

As in, you may go away them out if you’d like a easy unadorned pumpkin bread…however I don’t essentially suppose that’s the suitable factor to do. 😉

Additionally, you may lower the sugar (see the observe within the recipe) and in addition mess around with utilizing all entire wheat flour instead of the all-purpose flour or a mixture of half entire wheat flour and half all-purpose flour.

I choose utilizing a lighter wheat flour on this bread, like laborious or comfortable white wheat flour, kamut or einkhorn. It helps the bread keep fluffy as a substitute of moody and dense.

Bread Pan Sizes

The batter might be break up between:

• Two 9X5-inch pans
• Two 8 1/2 X 4 1/2-inch pans plus 1-2 mini loaf pans
• 6-8 mini loaf pans

The precise pan dimension doesn’t have an effect on the style final result of the bread, however I’ve discovered that the pumpkin bread domes barely higher within the smaller (8 1/2-inch or mini) pans.

A Fan Favourite

This recipe has been round a very long time, and it’s grow to be a tried-and-true favourite for a lot of!

Rachel says: I’ve been making this for years and it’s nonetheless my favourite factor to bake through the vacation season! 

Lexy says: I knew this was one of the best of one of the best however this yr I acquired adventurous and tried a special recipe that required making selfmade pumpkin butter… it wasn’t price the additional effort. So I’m again to this recipe! Tried and true, that is THE BEST pumpkin bread recipe on the web. 

Ellen says: Good is an understatement! I shall by no means once more Google “pumpkin bread recipe”. By no means. PS: Cinnamon chips instead of the chocolate chips can be superb.

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Good Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

Yield: 24 Slices (Makes 2-3 loaves)

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook dinner Time: 50 minutes

Complete Time: 1 hr 10 minutes

• 3 ½ cups (497 g) all-purpose flour (can sub half entire wheat flour – see observe)
• 2 cups (424 g) granulated sugar (see observe)
• 2 teaspoons baking soda
• 2 teaspoons floor cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon floor nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 (15-ounce) can (425 g) pumpkin puree
• 1 cup (226 g) vegetable, canola, avocado or melted coconut oil (see observe)
• 4 massive eggs
• ⅔ cup water, milk or buttermilk
• 1 to 2 cups (170 to 340 g) semi-sweet chocolate chips (non-obligatory)

• Preheat the oven to 350 levels F. Grease two 9X5-inch loaf pans or two 8 1/2X4 1/2-inch loaf pans plus 1-2 mini loaf pans.

• In a big bowl, whisk collectively the flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt collectively. Put aside.

• In a medium bowl or in a big liquid measuring cup, whisk collectively canned pumpkin, oil, eggs and a pair of/3 cup water, milk or buttermilk till nicely mixed.

• Pour the moist elements over the dry elements, and stir till there are nonetheless a number of dry streaks or clumps.

• Stir within the chocolate chips and blend till no dry streaks stay – however do not over combine! Pour batter in ready pans.

• Bake the bread for 55 to 70 minutes till a toothpick or skinny knife inserted within the heart comes out clear. Take away the bread from the oven and let sit for 10-Quarter-hour. Run a knife gently across the fringe of the bread and switch the bread out, proper facet up, onto a wire rack to chill utterly.

Let it Cool: this bread tastes finest when it has cooled utterly for a number of hours and tastes even higher the following day.
Flour: the unique recipe known as for two 1/2 cups all-purpose flour and 1 cup entire wheat flour. This recipe could be very adaptable to make use of 100% all-purpose flour, 100% entire wheat flour (ideally a lighter wheat like laborious or comfortable white wheat, kamut, or einkhorn), or half and half.
Sugar: through the years, I’ve decreased the sugar and the bread is a lot candy. The unique recipe known as for 3 cups sugar, if you’re on the lookout for that quantity.
Oil + Applesauce: you may simply exchange a part of the oil with applesauce (many commenters within the thread beneath have finished so with nice outcomes). My favourite is 1/2 cup applesauce, 1/2 cup oil.
Chocolate Chips: you probably have hassle with the chocolate chips sinking to the underside of the loaf, strive tossing them with the dry elements earlier than including the moist elements.

Serving: 1 slice, Energy: 326kcal, Carbohydrates: 46g, Protein: 4g, Fats: 15g, Saturated Fats: 3g, Ldl cholesterol: 28mg, Sodium: 201mg, Fiber: 2g, Sugar: 30g

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Recipe Supply: my brother, Nate W.

Recipe initially posted October 19, 2010; up to date October 2022 with new pictures, commentary and recipe notes.