Healthy pumpkin bread with chocolate chips
 

Healthy Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips is an all-time fan favorite recipe. It is sweetened with all-natural unrefined maple syrup, and uses whole-wheat flour. It is incredibly moist and addictively good! You’ll make it over and over!


INGREDIENTS

• 1 ¼ cup white whole-wheat flour
• 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 15-ounce can pumpkin puree
• ½ cup avocado oil or organic canola oil
• ½ cup dark pure maple syrup
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• ¾ cup mini chocolate chips

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat oven to 350ºF. Generously coat a 8 ½ by 4 ½-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
• Whisk whole-wheat flour, all-purpose flour,pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl. Whisk eggs, pumpkin, oil, maple syrup and vanilla in a large bowl until smooth. Add the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir with the silicone spatula until moistened. Add chocolate chips and stir until just combined.
• Spread the batter out into the prepared loaf pan. Bake until the bread has risen and the center springs back when lightly touched, 58 to 65 minutes. Test with a toothpick to make sure there is no uncooked batter in the center. Let cool completely in the pan on a wire cooling rack. Run a knife around the edges before turning out and slicing.

NOTES

I prefer to use dark maple syrup when cooking. It has the strongest maple flavor. Note that baked goods sweetened with maple syrup have a darker color.

White whole wheat flour can be substituted one for one with whole wheat flour. I like white whole wheat because it is lighter in color and it has a less pronounced wheaty flavor.


NUTRITION

SERVING SIZE: 1 sliceCALORIES: 241FAT: 13 gSATURATED FAT: 3 gCARBOHYDRATES: 28 gFIBER: 3 gPROTEIN: 4 g