Chocolate Pumpkin bread

This is a delicious recipe that should please both the pumpkin lovers and the chocolate lovers. I simply love the marbled orange and black look. Serve up with some flavored cream cheese and you have a real treat. Enjoy!!

 

 

 

 

2 cups white whole wheat flour

2-1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon Cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon Ground Ginger

1/4 teaspoon Ground Nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon Ground Cloves

2 large eggs

1 15 ounces can of pumpkin

3/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup milk

2 tablespoons Mazola Oil

1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract

1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, melted in a double boiler

 

Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and spices in a medium bowl and set aside

Whisk eggs until light and fluffy

Add pumpkin, brown sugar, milk, oil, and vanilla

Add flour mixture to the pumpkin mixture to combine, but do not overmix

Separate the batter into 2 bowls

Add melted chocolate to one of the bowls and combine

Spread a layer of pumpkin batter into a loaf pan prepared with cooking spray

Spread a layer of chocolate batter

Continue alternating batters but be sure to finish with the pumpkin batter

Use a knife to swirl the chocolate into the pumpkin batter but do not mix

Sprinkle with cinnamon and chocolate chips

Bake in an oven preheated to 350 degrees for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted into the middle of the bread comes out clean.

 

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