CHOCOLATE CHIP CREAM CHEESE PUMPKIN BREAD Recipe

by The Southern Lady

Bread

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup white granulated sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup 100% pumpkin (Not the pumpkin pie mix)
• 1/2 cup butter or 1 stick or 8 tablespoons, melted
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup sour cream
• Whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves until well mixed. Add eggs, pumpkin, melted butter, vanilla and sour cream. Mix well with spoon.
• Filling
• 1/2 of an 8 ounce bar cream cheese or 4 ounces, softened
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup nuts, pecans or walnuts, Optional
• Using a mixer combine cream cheese, egg and sugar. Mix well until smooth. Fold in chocolate chips. Swirl into your bread batter above. Fold in nuts.
• Pour batter into a sprayed 9 x 5 bread pan and bake in preheated 350 degree oven 65 to 70 minutes until center tests done as ovens vary. Let cool and frost with cream cheese frosting below.
• Frosting for Bread
• 4 ounces cream cheese, softened (the other half of your cream cheese used above in the filling)
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 stick or 4 tablespoons butter, softened
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg (Optional)
• 1/2 cup nuts, pecans or walnuts, Optional

Beat ingredients together with mixer and spread on cooled bread. Sprinkle on nuts.

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