Recipe: Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips and Walnuts Recipe

This is one of my favorite fall recipes! Perfectly moist, sweet, spiced, crunchy, and chewy. Everyone raves about this pumpkin bread at the gatherings I bring it to. It's delicious on its own or accompanied by hot coffee or tea.

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Ingredients

1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened

1 cup white sugar

1 cup packed brown sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 cup canned pumpkin puree

3 cups all-purpose flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

2 cups (12-ounce bag) milk chocolate chips

1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13″ baking pan or line with parchment paper

In a large bowl, cream butter until smooth. Add in the white and brown sugars until the mixture is light and fluffy. Beat the eggs in 1 at a time, then mix in the vanilla and pumpkin puree. 

In another bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and nutmeg. Slowly mix the flour mixture into the egg/butter mixture in thirds. Stir in the chocolate chips then the walnuts. 

Spoon the dough into the 9 x 13″ pan, spreading evenly in pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely before cutting into bars. Makes  about 20-24 bars, depending on how you cut them. Enjoy!

Video Tutorial