Vegan pumpkin chocolate chip quick bread
This bread is a quick and easy breakfast for kids and adults.
I like to make this quick bread for my sons. They don't always want to eat yellow or orange vegetables, so I feel good about preparing this for them.
I find that I can get it done and ready to serve in well under an hour, which is great for a hectic school day morning. The kids love this bread and adults like it too.
You can vary the recipe by replacing the pumpkin with 2 or 3 small, ripe bananas.
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 3/4 cup spelt flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 1/4 teaspoon cloves
- 1 cup pumpkin purée
- ½ cup unsweetened applesauce
- 2 tablespoon ground flax seed mixed in 6 tablespoons warm water (let stand 2 minutes and mix again)
- 3 tablespoon maple syrup
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips (optional)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease a square (8x8 or 9x9) glass baking dish.
- In a large bowl, mix together the dry ingredients.
- In a small bowl, whisk together pumpkin, applesauce, flax seed mixture and maple syrup.
- Combine dry and wet ingredients and mix until blended.
- Add dark chocolate chips if desired.
- Pour into the baking dish and bake for 30 minutes.
- If you'd like to make muffins instead of a loaf, reduce baking time to 20 minutes.
Nutrition information (per serving)
Does not include chocolate chips. Chocolate chips would add about 100 calories/serving.
- Calories: 190
- Total fat: 2 g
- Saturated fat: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 0 g
- Sodium: 450 mg
- Total carbohydrate: 39 g
- Dietary fiber: 7 g
- Sugars: 9 g
- Protein: 6 g