This may be my favorite loaf of bread I’ve ever made. Maybe. Pumpkin and chai were just made for each other. Remember my sweet potato chai muffins? This recipe is better.
As I type this, I’m flying back out to California. I was back home from Pittsburgh for just a week, but cookbook work had to be done, so I’m back off to the west coast. Hopefully you’ve heard the news that I’m coming out with my second cookbook!! The first time around, I wrote it by myself. This second time around, I’m going with a new publisher AND writing it with another person, which is pretty awesome because it’s George from Civilized Caveman. We decided to come together and collaborate to make a ton of brand new, never before seen recipes. With George’s amazing photography and my ability to destroy his kitchen while creating recipes, we are bound to come up with some pretty stellar dishes. He loves when I’m in the kitchen. Just loves it.
I’m excited that I finally have the chance to tell you all about the cookbook and share some pictures of the recipes that will be in the book! Especially the failed recipes. Those are funny to see. Not for us, because we become extremely annoyed when it happens, but it’s funny for you. And remember, when I go to visit George in California, we spend 6-7 days with each other. And annoy each other. I get all up in his space, eat a lot of his food (he always has the best food ever) and spill food into every crevice possible. So when a recipe fails, it makes things worse. We become almost like little children, throwing small tantrums. Baking has seemed to be our biggest downfall. Mostly because we are trying new ingredients that we haven’t worked with much. We tried some cinnamon rolls and monkey bread…both failed. They still tasted good, so of course we ate them, but looks wise and texture wise, not so much. Hopefully we can pull our sh*t together and figure out those recipes. How bomb would that be? Bomb.
Crying babies are the worst. And there is one in close proximity to me on the plane. No wait, crying babies on planes are the worst. I know, I know, I will never get it until I am a mom, but what if I don’t plan to be a mom? What if I plan to do other things? Then will I never understand it? I felt really bad for the mom on the flight. Even though everyone understands, they all still secretly hate her, because you can’t hate the child. That would just be effed up.
You know what’s effed up? That show ‘The Walking Dead’. I see why it’s so addictive, but daaaaamn are your dreams messed up afterwards. I didn’t have zombie dreams, oh no. I had dreams of creepy people, doing creepy things. Like smearing pumpkin pie on my friend and jumping up and down on her. You think that wouldn’t be that freaky of a dream, but you had to see their faces. Chainsaw massacre meets hills have eyes. I escaped up a mountain with wolves following me. Then I woke up, and couldn’t go back to sleep. Pretty sure my brain told me to wake up so I wouldn’t witness my own death. I’m sad I won’t be watching The Walking Dead anymore. But I like living in my dreams.
THE CRYING WON’T STOP.
Chai Pumpkin Bread
- Yield: 6 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup almond butter (or other nut butter or seed butter)
- 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
- 1 banana, mashed
- 1/4 cup honey (optional- i like it sweeter)
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 2 chai tea packets (tea spices removed from packets)
- 3 tablespoons coconut flour
- 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/8 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Mix together almond butter, pumpkin, banana, and eggs.
- Cut open the two tea bags and remove all the tea spices from the tea bags and add to almond butter mixture.
- Add the rest of the ingredients and mix until well combined.
- Grease a loaf pan and then line it with parchment paper.
- Pour batter in pan and place in oven. Bake for 45 minutes. Let rest before slicing.
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I made this to the exact recipe. I used the Tazo Organic Chai tea. I came out just as Julie described. I prefer it cold as opposed to warm. I don’t love it, but it is certainly palatable. I am very new to paleo so I’m not sure my palette is quite ready for this bread.
I’ll admit, I almost didn’t make this after reading the comments because I was so annoyed. Are you people freaking kidding me?
Glad I did, though, it was awesome! I am actually not paleo, but eat mostly whole foods. I used pecan butter (just made it in the food processor) and used an additional 1/3 cup pumpkin in place of the banana. I accidentally doubled the honey and am glad I did. 😉
I took it out at 40 minutes because it looked done, but the middle of the loaf was undercooked. 45 would have been right on. Thanks for the recipe. Sorry about all the ridiculous comments. 🙂
hahaha yay!!! glad it still turned out!!
Rebecca, I just scrolled down to the bottom after reading the first 20 comments and was about to write the same thing. I know they say there are no stupid questions but there are if they’ve been asked already! Juli you are very patient!
Have the bread in the oven now and if the finished product tastes as delish as the batter did then we’re in for a treat!
Loving the site, just came across it this week!
Just made this with the sunbutter substitution but added 1/2 tsp lemon juice to prevent the green reaction. This seems to have worked. It looked done at 35 minutes but I left it in 5 more minutes just to make sure. Turned out great, and not green!
I wish I’d read about using lemon juice to prevent the green reaction with sunbutter before…because that’s what happened and it looks pretty unappetizing. Good thing it’s just me eating it straight out of the pan with a fork! I love the chai and pumpkin combo, though! Next time I will try almond butter instead.
Could I replace the coconut flour with almond flour?
you could but i think this still might workout without the coconut flour. just may need to bake longer
In the oven as we speak — Lordy does that smell good — and the ‘licks’ from the bowl were too delicious. Used Ginger tea in stead of Chai for that part!
I used 1/4 of a roasted sweet potato in place of the banana, left out the coconut flour and it was awesome. Made 2 – one for my non-paleo day care lady (bribe the day care at every opportunity…..) and gave it to her with a jar of raw honey to slather on it, got some rave reviews.
Thank you Juli! Deliciousness prevails, as always.
Just pulled these out of the oven and they smell awesome! For anyone who wants to make muffins, I just changed the baking time to 20 min.
Hi! I am loving this recipe. Question though. I am allergic to bananas is there a substitute for that ingredient? Thanks
it should still work ok with leaving them out. read some of the comments to see if anyone has tried that
Just made this. Delicious!! Will be making it again for sure. Thanks 🙂