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’ve made this bread three times already and my kids and I love it!!! Super moist and super delicious! Thanks!
Made this twice now. I don’t really measure because I’m lazy, but I eyeballed all the amounts and this came out fantastically both times. It’s moist and the flavors are awesome and fallish even though I didn’t have all the spices (no cloves). Fabulous.
What a great recipe! Thank you so much. I am not an accomplished paleo baker but this came out perfect first go! I used steamed mashed butternut squash as I don’t have access to canned pumpkin in Australia but other than that I followed the recipe exactly as written. The squash might be a bit denser than canned but don’t think it affected the outcome. My child and non paleo husband loved it. Just perfect. 5 stars.
I used twinings chai tea bags and it turned out great! I know Lipton makes a chai tea now too, but twinings.gave me more bags for the same cost. Mine turned out super well, and I’m debating pairing it with berries, thoughts?
Dig it
I just made bread pudding with this and OMG it was amazing! Thank you for the wonderful recipes!
This sounds delicious!!! Just curious: any suggestions for substitutes for the banana? My friend and I like cooking from this website together but she’s allergic to banana, avocado, eggs, and pineapple. I know bananas and avocado are really common binding ingredients in recipes like this, but are there any substitutes for banana that we can use so she can enjoy it too?
I think you could remove the banana all together and it would be ok
Hi, I’d love to try this but my daughter can’t have eggs. OK to substitute with flax meal + water or should I buy egg substitute at Whole Foods or the like? Thank you!
Looks delicious! I’m out of bananas, do you think I could sub a plantain?
That may works but the texture will definitely be different
Hello, I don’t know if I just haven’t been through your website enough (I just discovered this beauty today), but whats the name of your first cook book? All of your recipes I have looked over so far sound amazing. And is it available in Canada? Thanks!
OMG! That’s Paleo? Is the name of my first book and you can get it on amazon!
So when you say tea bags … you mean …
LOL, Juli, besides being incredibly beautiful and fun to look at you have taken my Paleo to a happy place. I am here at least 3-4 times a week. I really appreciate your posts and the great frequent laughter!