Thursday, May 9, 2013

Healthy and delicious pumpkin bread


Recipe source Our Best Bites
Ingredients:
2 cups all purpose flour (can substitute for whole wheat)
1 cup whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
1/4 teaspoons ground cloves
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon table salt
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 1/2 cup white sugar (could substitute with stevia)
6 ounce container vanilla greek yogurt
3 eggs, slightly beaten
15 ounce can pumpkin puree
1/2 cup canola oil (could substitute with apple sauce)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, salt, baking soda and baking powder in a medium sized bowl.
In a separate mixing bowl combine both brown and white sugar.  Add yogurt, eggs, pumpkin, oil, and vanilla extract and whisk until smooth.
Slowly add dry ingredients to wet and stir until combined. Next, stir in the chocolate chips.  Then divide the batter between into two 9×5 loaf pans (sprayed with non-stick spray) and sprinkle a few extra chocolate chips on top.  Bake around 50  minutes or until lightly browned.

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