Chocolate Pumpkin Bread

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup Dutch process cocoa
2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 cup canola oil or vegetable oil
1/4 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
2 large eggs, at room temperature, slightly beaten
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, divided

DIRECTIONS:
Heat your oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, combine the pumpkin puree, brown sugar, oil, buttermilk, eggs, and vanilla extract. Stir until smooth and combined.
Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, don’t overmix. Stir in 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips.

Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup of chocolate chips over the top of the bread.

Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out mostly clean, you might have some melted chocolate chips on the toothpick and that is fine. You just don’t want a lot of gooey batter.

Remove the pan from the oven and set on a wire cooling rack. Let the bread cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the bread and carefully remove from the pan. Let the bread cool on the wire cooling rack until slightly warm. Cut into slices and serve.

(source: https://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/chocolate-pumpkin-bread/)