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Make Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread

Have you wanted a tasty and healthy (well there are some healthy ingredients) treat for the lunch box or afternoon tea? How about adding pumpkin to a recipe, if you are worried it doesn’t taste like pumpkin at all just has the healthy benefits of pumpkin.

If you said yes, then I have a great recipe for you.

Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread - Yummy and all ready to eat!
Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread – Yummy and all ready to eat!

Make it easy and download the recipe card and instructions

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 cups (300g) self-raising flour
  • 50g butter melted
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2/3 cup (130g) dark choc chips
  • 1/2 cup (55g) chopped walnuts
  • Pepitas (pumpkin seeds) and sunflower seeds
  • 1 cup (220g) brown sugar
  • 1 cup (250g) mashed pumpkin (I made my own)
  • 1/2 cup (125ml) buttermilk

SET THE OVEN FOR  180°C   OR    356°F

My fresh made pumpkin mash all ready to make Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread
My freshly made pumpkin mash all ready to make Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread

METHOD

Step 1: Make your own Pumpkin Mash

I made my own pumpkin mash. I measured the correct amount of pumpkin needed. Then took off the skin. I added a little water to a saucepan and then added the cut-up pumpkin. I cooked until it was soft to make a mash. I cooled it a little to be not hot when it was added to the other dry and wet ingredients.

You don’t need to create your own mash, but it was super simple and easy to create, and it meant it was all fresh.  If you would rather not do your own mash you can buy canned pumpkin mash and then add it to the mixture.

Step 2: Mix all ingredients into a bowl and make sure they are mixed well.

How good does this look....I want a piece now. All cooked and amazing looking choc chip pumpkin bread.
How good does this look….I want a piece now. All cooked and amazing looking choc chip pumpkin bread.

Step 3: In a buttered tin (I used a big rectangle one that is good for bigger cakes), put in all the mixture. Make sure that it is all level and the top of the cake looks smooth. If you need to use a knife to smooth out the top.

Step 4: Add the dark chop chips, walnuts, pepitas and sunflower seeds to the top of the cake. I found that since the mixture was a bit thicker than a standard cake the seeds and choc chips stayed on the top, whereas a standard cake means that these items would have fallen into the cake and stuck to the bottom.

You can add any seeds you wish, so if you prefer something else add those.

Step 5: Cook for about 1 hour or until a skewer comes out cleanly of the cake/bread. I checked often as I was unsure if an hour was too long. I think it got close to being in the oven for an hour.

Step 6: Eat your yummy choc chip pumpkin bread – share with friends or just have it for yourself for afternoon tea.

Yummy Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread all ready to eat
Yummy Choc Chip Pumpkin Bread all ready to eat

I hope you enjoy this yummy recipe.

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Originally published October 11, 2019

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Recipes

Vanilla, Banana & Chia Seed Cake

Do you want to make a super easy and super tasty, and healthy cake?

This cake is so tasty and no one will know it has secret ingredients that are actually good for you!

Just between you and me, the good ingredients are bananas and chia seeds.  Just don’t tell anyone!

Vanilla, banana & chia seed cake all ready to eat. Adding raspberries made it taste fabulous as well.
Vanilla, banana & chia seed cake all ready to eat. Adding raspberries made it taste fabulous as well.

 

To make this recipe even easier I used a Vanilla cake mix from Woolworths.

Ingredients

  • Vanilla cake mix
  • 3 Bananas
  • 160ml of milk
  • 2 Eggs
  • Olive oil instead of butter
  • 1 Tablespoon of Chia Seeds

Vanilla, Banana and Chia Seed cake all cooked and ready to eat!
Vanilla, Banana and Chia Seed cake all cooked and ready to eat!

 

How long to cook for

Set oven for 180°C  and bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. (Sometimes I find 30mins is enough, depends on the mixture and your oven)

 

Enjoy and you can be happy knowing that the kids will be finally eating something healthy.
Enjoy and you can be happy knowing that the kids will be finally eating something healthy.

 

Have fun with this recipe and after you make your yummy cake enjoy it for some afternoon tea.

 

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3 years and beyond Pre-School

Not hungry

Since the girls started school, they have been off their food. I have offered all sorts of things for dinner and nothing or the bare minimum gets touched. Sandwiches and lunches are coming back not eaten. This brings me to question: “What are they eating? And who’s lunch are they eating?”, because they are definitely not eating what I am giving them.  I do know that I need to have new choices for them, however this is limited by a vegemite and honey sandwich diet and extras are left and never touched. Both girls eat a good breakfast, weetbix. Maybe I need to reduce that so that they eat lunch and dinner.

I feel that the girls are just too busy to eat? So many things to do and see, don’t have time to eat. Is this it? It makes me wonder, when they come home they say they are hungry. So I give them something before I give them dinner, say a yoghurt and then they don’t eat anything after this. Very annoying. I have had screaming temper tantrums telling me that they are hungry and they are not tired and please mummy I don’t need to go to bed!!!!

Before you think I am a big meany poo. I gave them several things to eat and nothing got touched. I thought that they might not be that hungry so left it for ages on the table so the girls could go back and pick at it. I feed them some milk in the hour before bed and they still carry on that they are hungry. I have taken this as a delaying technique and if mummy thinks we are hungry we can stay up. Told them that if they did not eat the sausages, cheese, and beetroot then they are not hungry and it is bed time. Lillian was falling asleep in my arms tonight and also yesterday. There is no way that they are not tired. I suppose Julia and Lillian are trying to convince me otherwise, cheeky monkeys.

Does your child not eat if they are too busy or involved? I suppose that this will sort itself out, when the girls are hungry they will eat.  I need inspiration for more lunch box ideas and dinners for the girls. If you have any thoughts, send them my way. We can all share and benefit out of others ideas.