The only ingredients of the typical Southern Italian pasta, cavatelli noodles are durum wheat semolina flour, water, and salt. The durum flour’s starch gives this pasta its distinct and firm texture, making it ideal to pair with either a straightforward tomato sauce or a hearty Bolognese. The dough will be excessively firm if you don’t use very fine semolina, also known as durum or semola rimacinata.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Additional Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 40 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 5×7-inch loaf |
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 1 ⅔ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups white sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ½ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- ¼ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- ⅓ cup water
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- ½ cup chopped toasted almonds
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray the inside of a 9×5-inch loaf pan with cooking spray.
- Mix flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, and baking powder together in a large bowl. Add pumpkin puree, vegetable oil, water, and eggs; beat until well incorporated and smooth. Gently stir in chocolate chips and almonds. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
- Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, 1 hour and 15 minutes. Let cool in pan for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 355 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 50 g |
| Cholesterol | 31 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Sodium | 322 mg |
| Sugars | 34 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
2.17.21 I was a little let down by the lack of the pumpkin flavor, but other than that, liked everything about this bread. It was plenty moist and tender, and the dominant flavor really was the chocolate (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Don’t know if this really was necessary, but I mixed the pumpkin, oil, water, and eggs in a separate bowl, and then added that to the flour mixture. I baked three mini loaves, since that seems to help us with portion control, and it took 38 minutes at 350ºF. Thanks for sharing your recipe SueHoo.
Perfect pumpkin bread. This recipe makes 2 full loaves of bread.
I left out the almonds and added more chocolate chips, according to my taste preferences. The bread seemed overbaked on the outside but was so moist on the inside that it fell apart as I sliced it. I brought what I could salvage to church for Bible class and heard many compliments. It’s really good!
Yum! I used 3/4 cup white sugar and 1/4 cup brown and 3/4 cup of coconut instead of chocolate chips and almonds. Moist and delicious. Kids and hubby loved it too.
Different lighter flavor than my traditional pumpkin bread recipe. I left out the chocolate chips and almonds and decreased the sugar to 1-1/4 cups – you can’t tell the difference. I baked it in 2 smaller pans and they were done in 45 minutes. One loaf for my family and one loaf to share!
Really, really good snack bread. I didn’t have any almonds, and it was still excellent. It’s also great for slicing thick and freezing for school lunches.
This is absolutely an awesome bread. Next time, I will cut back on the sugar because the chocolate chips add sweetness. This is a keeper!
Yummy, yummy…..YUMMY! Need I say more?
I made this last week. My family loved it. It makes a large loaf, moist and tasty, and it keeps well. The only change I made was to omit the almonds. This one is a keeper!
This loaf is TASTY. Kids couldn’t tell it had pumpkin in it. I used cold, mashed, roast pumpkin and decreased the amount of chocolate chips. I also didn’t use any almonds because I didn’t have any. A very light, moist loaf.
Nice, smooth texture, moderate spice and easy to make. I combined all the dry ingredients and added the mixed wet ingredients (this includes the sugar), mixing until smooth. Omitted the almonds, and folded in the chocolate chips. These make good muffins as well as mini loaves. An delightful fall treat!