Healthy Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips
Looking for a delicious healthy pumpkin bread recipe? You’ll love this healthy pumpkin bread sweetened with maple syrup and made with almond flour!
Servings: 1 loaf
Ingredients
- 3 eggs room temperature
- 2/3 cup pumpkin puree room temperature
- 1/2 cup maple syrup room temperature
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups almond flour
- ½ teaspoon coarse salt
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup low or no-sugar chocolate chips such as Lily’s
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F
- In a medium bowl combine, eggs, pumpkin puree, vanilla, and maple syrup. Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature. Whisk until thoroughly combined.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together almond flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, pumpkin pie spice, and cinnamon.
- Gradually, add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, and stir until thoroughly combined. Taste to see if any spices need tweaking, and if the sweetness is to your liking. Add more maple syrup (or a little stevia) if desired. Add more cinnamon if more flavor is needed.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Spray or grease a standard loaf pan. Pour the batter into the greased loaf pan, and bake for 30 minutes, check with a toothpick to see if the loaf is cooked through. If not, cover and continue to cook until cooked through. Most likely, you will need to cook for an additional 10-15 minutes depending on your oven.
Notes
When baking with almond flour, things have a tendency to stick. Make sure you allow the loaf to cool completely before removing it from the pan. Be sure to grease the pan well, or line with parchment paper.
Be sure that the center is completely baked through before removing from the oven, if you remove it from the oven too soon, the middle will deflate and the bread will be gooey.