Chocolate Chip Walnut Pumpkin Bread

By srumbel

This Chocolate Chip Walnut Pumpkin Bread is such a crowd pleaser. An insanely moist pumpkin bread base is dotted with chopped walnuts and chocolate chips and kissed with cinnamon. This will no doubt be an autumn favorite as soon as the scent of it baking in the oven starts wafting through your home.
from melaniemakes.com

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 2 cups pumpkin puree
• 1-1/2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 cup chocolate chips

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In the bowl of an electric mixer, cream together butter and sugar.
Add eggs and pumpkin puree and mix until well combined.
Add flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla and mix until just combined.
Fold in walnuts and chocolate chips.
Pour batter into greased loaf pan.
Bake for 55 minutes. If beginning to brown to quickly, loosely tent with foil.
Turn oven off and leave bread in oven for additional 15 minutes.
Allow bread to cool completely before removing from loaf pan to serve.

Yields 12 slices