Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

If you’re a chocolate lover looking for a dessert that just screams “fall flavor!” this gluten-free chocolate chip pumpkin bread recipe is for you!

It’s easy to mix together, and comes out perfectly every time!

I distinctly remember the first time I ever had pumpkin bread.

I was eleven. My parents had sold our house in Illinois, and we’d gone in search of… something else. They were looking for something akin to a homesteading lifestyle in a different state.

They’d started traveling around, looking before the house sold, but it wasn’t until afterward, after they put everything we owned (except our suitcases) into a storage unit and took off southward down the highway that they finally found it in Tennessee.

There, our new neighbors turned out to be the best kind of neighbors – eager for new friends, and with kids near our ages. We were pretty much inseparable those first few months.

She – the mom as I thought of her back then – was the one who first made pumpkin bread.

As I look back on it, she’s really the person who introduced me to pumpkin as not-just-for-pie – she’s the reason for my love of gluten-free pumpkin roll!

But that first bite of pumpkin bread – oh my goodness! Of course I’d had banana bread, and the occasionally loaf of zucchini bread all my life, but this pumpkin bread was something else entirely.

Moist, steamy, cinnamon, cloves, and ginger.

I couldn’t get enough!

And honestly, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten enough.

We made pumpkin bread – and sometimes we put it in muffin tins for breakfast because it bakes faster – every fall, every winter, and even sometimes in the spring and summer.

Right along with gluten-free pumpkin spice donuts, and Amish Pumpkin Butter.

Fortunately, quick breads like this gluten-free chocolate chip pumpkin bread are one of the easiest types of recipe to convert to gluten-free, so I was able to hit the ground running with my pumpkin bread baking habit when I first started baking gluten-free.

I’m not sure why I never bothered to share the recipe before – maybe because it gets eaten so often before I can even think of taking pictures.

But this year, today, I’m sharing it.

Maybe because this year we threw chocolate chips into a batch of pumpkin bread and I was like “whoah! I had no idea this combo would be so good!”.

I know it’s probably a no-brainer to most of you, but the pumpkin chocolate combo? Seriously amazing.

And we’ve been making it both gluten-free, and not gluten-free – they’re both really good.

I’ve been using King Arthur measure for measure gluten-free baking mix, and when I can manage to sneak a piece away from Gabe’s stash, I’m impressed by how soft, light, moist, and springy it is – qualities you might take for granted if you’ve never been put in a gluten-free box.

So don’t let food allergies keep you from enjoying gluten-free chocolate chip pumpkin bread this fall!

P.S. I’ve played around with adding more chocolate chips than the recipe calls for, and at a certain point, your bread starts to fall apart, so don’t let temptation get the best of you!

P.P.S. I’m usually all about that semi-sweet chocolate, but with this recipe, I really like to mix it half-and-half with milk chocolate!

Try this delicious bread below

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