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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Okay, so I’ve made this FOUR times since you posted the recipe, and it. is. AMAZING. My non-paleo in-laws, who can be pretty picky eaters, absolutely loved it. I also made it for two Halloween parties, and am definitely going to be making it again for Thanksgiving. So good! Thank you!!
OMG Juli this was awesome. I made it yesterday while prepping my eats for the week and I couldn’t stop eating it. I need to freeze the rest, otherwise it will be gone by the end of the week. Thank you for sharing.
I have loved every recipe I’ve tried from your site but this one was dry, dry, dry for me. I followed it exactly so not sure what went wrong. I slather each slice it in butter so that helps a little.
I love all things pumpkin! I made this bread yesterday and I have to agree with a few of the other comments…it was very dry and I could not taste the pumpkin. This bread only baked in my oven for about 35 minutes and I followed the directions to a “T”. I like the french toast idea that is posted above!
I also made a double batch of the pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. That recipe is a “keeper”!
Not sure why that happened!! My bread has always come out super soft and moist
Juli,
Do you think protein powder could be added into this recipe? If so would you take out any of the other ingredients like the coconut flour? Thanks!
PS: can’t wait for the next cookbook!
remove the coconut flour and use protein powder, same amount
First time cooking paleo, I’m a fan of pumpkin and a new fan of the comments to your posts! LOL I am on my first week of avoiding sugar, replacing grains, and generally eating healthier. I have not eliminated dairy.
I did add honey, but it was barely sweet so I’m guessing since I am coming off sugar and comparting this to the last slice of traditional pumpkin bread I had, that I will get used to the “less sugar” taste?
I added a schmear of cream cheese and it helped!
🙂
Hi Juli,
I love your recipes and I am officially going Paleo starting tomorrow and I am grocery shopping tonight. Where can I buy almond meal or coconut flour? I live in Los Angeles.
you can usually find almond flour or coconut flour anywhere with bob’s red mill flours. but i usually get them at whole foods
Mmm, looks good! I’ll have to give this one a try as im a big fan of pumpkin and any foods containing pumpkin 🙂
I don’t think people mean to be rude when they say it didn’t turn out. I personally always read the reviews before trying a new recipe because I like to hear how It was for people who tried it. I made this tonight, followed the recipe except subbed 1/4 c more pumpkin for the banana. Mine was a tad dry on the edges. I am guessing the middle will be more moist. I was a little disappointed in the (lack of) flavor, but I have only been off sugar for 3 weeks and am not used to the blandness yet. Perhaps my chai tea wasn’t as spicy as yours. The texture was great. Thanks a lot for the recipes and the blog. It is a lot of fun. And as I am new to paleo I am looking forward to trying more recipes. It is so nice to be able to find some comfort foods when you’re sick of meat and veggies. 😉
Do you think I could substitute coconut oil for the butter?
i don’t use coconut oil in this recipe