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 was on a plane with my crying baby once. I was getting lots of hate stares, until I nursed him on the plane. Then I got even more hate stares. At least he was quiet and my milk jugs were properly covered.
So, what kind of scissors do I use to open the tea packets?
you’re joking with scissor thing, right?
Yes! 🙂
I’ve made this recipe so many times. I’ve added some chocolate chips a few times and the bread/muffins always turn out perfectly. Thank you!
Delish! However, we used sunbutter instead of almond butter and got the dreaded green bread chemical reaction. It looked very strange (perfect for Halloween) with the green blotches…..but it was so so delicious. Anyone planning to sub with sunbutter BEWARE.
I’m so glad you said that. I was wondering why mine turned green. I forgot I even added the sunbutter last minute.
Hi, Just wondering if you have to use a mixer for this or if you can mix it by hand? If I whip the eggs and melt the nut butter with the coconut oil?
Thanks.
i mixed mine by hand
This tastes like Christmas morning. No other way to describe it. I don’t drink black tea and as chai tea is black tea based, I used “Bengal Spice Herbal Tea” which is similar. It surprised me when I saw it has black pepper in it which undoubtedly changed the flavor from your version. But still… So good.
I was very excited to try this, but it was not my favorite. I cooked it until the outside was nice and brown and a toothpick came out clean, but the middle is still soggy. Also, I’m not a fan of the chai flavor. It’s actually made me nauseated the last two times I’ve eaten it. 🙁 Maybe it’s too much nut butter at once for my tummy? Dunno… I’ve loved every other recipe of yours. I do to say, the texture of this bread is great – just like regular bread. Keep the recipes coming!
Meh. Most of your recipes are stellar, but this one just tasted like almond butter. Couldn’t taste the pumpkin or spices much at all. The boyf agreed, said it should be called “almond butter bread.” Unfortunately, it went straight into the compost. LOVE your pumpkin choc chip muffin recipe, so I’ll keep making that one for my pumpkin sweet fix.
Just made this with pumpkin seed butter and regular flour (didn’t have coconut flour). Turned out great! Found your blog today (searched “sausage crust quiche”) and that helped direct me in my breakfast-for-dinner quest. Poked around and found this recipe, had the important stuff and threw it together. YUMMY! It’s going to be a great addition to dinner! Thank you~I think I will be visiting your blog often….LOVE your attitude and approach to cooking. Fits me and my family well!
I made this last night and I also left out the chai. Not a fan of chai. I also added more pumpkin. I found the bread to be spongy and wet in the middle. The taste of the banana was too much for me and it made it taste like pumpkin banana bread. I put it back in the oven for another 10 mins but not much improvement. My husband and I have enjoyed all the other recipes that we tried from this site but unfortunately not a fan of this one.
Adding more pumpkin will completely change the recipe. That’s why it came out wet. Make sure to use the recommended amount next time around
Please don’t rate a recipe poorly if you failed to follow the directions, if you change the ingredients and it doesn’t turn out well, that is your fault…
These comments are killing me!!! Way to be patient, Juli. I love your sweet potato chai muffins, and I can’t wait to try these. Thanks so much!
First of all, lol @ everyone asking you what tea packets are.
Secondly, my apartment smells AMAZING from baking this.
And thirdly, obvi this was delicious. My boyfriend wouldn’t wait till it cooled down, he just had to try it! Yum!
Thanks Juli!