Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread with Cream Cheese Swirls
Moist pumpkin chocolate chip bread with cream cheese swirls and big chunks of bittersweet chocolate! This pumpkin chocolate chip bread has a healthy twist from greek yogurt and avocado oil!
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 55 min
- Yield
- 18 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
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- 4 large eggs
- 1 can pumpkin puree (15oz, 425g)
- 1 cup greek yogurt plain (full fat)
- ¼ cup avocado oil (can substitute any vegetable oil)
- 1 Tablespoon vanilla bean paste
- 2⅓ cup all purpose flour
- 1¾ cup brown sugar
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 cups bittersweet chocolate baking chips
- 1½ Tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ginger powder
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon ground clove
- 16 oz cream cheese ( softened)
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 Tablespoon all purpose flour
- 1 Tablespoon milk (can substitute water)
- 1 egg (large)
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F.
- 2
Pumpkin Batter
- 3
In a large mixing bowl, add the wet ingredients and brown sugar. Mix together until the sugar is dissolved.
- 4
Reserve ⅔ cup of chocolate chips in a small bowl and set this aside for later. In a medium size bowl, mix together the dry ingredients, the remaining 1 ⅓ cups of chocolate chips, and the pumpkin spice mix. Then add the dry mixture to the wet ingredients. Mix until it's well combined. Set this aside.
- 5
Cream Cheese Filling
- 6
In a small bowl, mix together all the ingredients for the cream cheese filling until smooth. Use an electric beater or a whisk to get out any lumps.
- 7
Fill the Loaf Pan
- 8
Grease your two loaf pans. Starting with the pumpkin batter, alternate layers of the pumpkin batter and cream cheese filling until the you've filled ¾ of the loaf pans. Place the reserved chocolate chips on top of the pumpkin bread.
- 9
Bake the pumpkin bread at 350 degrees F for 55 minutes to an hour or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. If the tops get too dark, you can loosely cover the bread with foil.