Posted on
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
7:36 PM
| By:
Megan
Category: Sweets and Treats
My mother wasn't a big cookie baker when I was growing up. She always said her mom made cookies all the time and she got tired of them. But, she loves to bake and once fall/winter comes around our house is full of goodies! Well, we finally had some true autumn weather this week and it must've brought out her baking spirit because she made her Famous Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Loaf. I absolutely LOVE this recipe. Very easy to make and, besides pumpkin, most of us have the ingredients in our pantry already.
1 3/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice *
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup margarine or softened butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup pumpkin
6 oz. chocolate chips (or chocolate chunks)
Combine flour, baking soda, salt and your spices in a small bowl. In large mixing bowl, cream butter, gradually adding sugar at high speed until light and fluffy. Blend in eggs. At low speed, add 1/3 of your dry ingredients. Once combined, add 1/2 of the pumpkin. Continue adding alternately, ending with your dry ingredients. Stir in chocolate chips, then pour into a 9" loaf pan. Bake at 350° 65-75 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center of loaf comes out clean. Allow to cool before turning out of pan. Let sit for several hours before serving. Or...if you're in my family...let it cool just long enough so you don't burn your tongue when you take a giant bite!
*If you don't have pumpkin pie spice you can use:
½ teaspoon nutmeg, ¼ teaspoon cloves, ¼ teaspoon ginger and 1 ¼ teaspoon cinnamon
Oh man!! that looks great...hope you have some at Jake's party...yum!