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 last night using a real hokkaido pumpkin. With the remaining flesh, I made pumpkin soup (paleo)! What I didn’t have with me was the Chai tea, so instead I added all-spice used in pumpkin pie recipes and omitted the cloves. It was still yummy without! I put a little bit of frothy coconut milk on top when it was right out of the oven too!
Thank you for sharing! I will make this again!
I’ve done this recipe twice now and it was a BIG hit both times! I actually left the tea in its bags and the banana in its peel… but I definitely took the eggs out of their shells. Leaving the shell would’ve been silly.
Seriously though, this turned out amazing. Thanks, Juli (you patient SOB)! Impressed my partner’s family with this one. Props.
I was just introduced to Paleo about 2 weeks ago and I’m hooked- your site has been INCREDIBLY helpful to find recipes that I actually enjoy making! Just made this tonight and not only did my house smell incredible but it tasted ridiculously delicious. Wonderful Paleo sweetness at its finest =)
If anyone doesn’t love the texture (or finds it a bit wet), leave out in the kitchen over night in some wax paper and it dries it out to more of a traditional ‘cake’ texture
DEFINITELY OMG good! Thank you for sharing:)!
Just made it with sun flowere seed butter. It’s cooling right now and definitely looks much darker.
I bet it will taste good, but almond butter probably keeps it lighter in color and more appealing.
What modifications would I need to make since I live at low altitude? I live in CA and the bread was very cooked after 30 minutes, but still a bit gooey in the middle. I am assuming this is because of the difference in altitude! Still tastes great though 😀
I’m not sure why it would still be gooey in the middle…
I’m in CA also (Bay Area, so near sea level) and didn’t need to modify the time. It’s a realyl dar bread, so maybe it just looked like it was done at 30 minutes. The first time I made it, I pulled it out at 40 minutes and wished I’d left it for the whole 45.
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I like to make my chai tea fresh… can I use that for this recipe or would It be better off for me to just by it? Doesn’t bother me either way but the fresher the better 🙂
Lynann
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Made this yesterday with Vanilla Chai Tea. Didn’t have a banana, so i just used more pumpkin. The smell during baking is like fall-heaven!
Is it acceptable to eat the entire loaf the same say you bak it? Cause that’s what happened. Couldn’t. Help. It. Well done……well done.
Commenters asking about flour subs-Duh! she answered that 100 times 100 posts ago. no nutritional info, no subs, ever! you can hire a nutritionist for that. But, then again, if you plan to ask that, you probably arent reading this anyway. Psh. Tip for bread with a gooey middle-If your loaf pan is glass or ceramic, some paleo baked goods wont work as well as in they do in plain old disposable loaf tins. Its all in the heat distribution. Making the original version now without any of the aforementioned modifications that ultimately failed. Original paleomg recipes always work for me! I’m thankful for that, happy thanksgiving!