Chai Pumpkin Bread with Chai Cream Cheese Frosting
As a child, sweet bread made from banana, zucchini, or pumpkin was a welcome treat. It wasn't something that was made often, which perhaps made it more special when it was. I would stand on a kitchen chair next to my grandmother, measuring and adding the ingredients to the mixing bowl. Always licking the spatula at end.
I hope you enjoy this recipe for Chai Pumpkin Bread with Chai Cream Cheese Frosting and make some memories of your own making, and sharing, this little taste of sweetness.
Ingredients
For the pumpkin bread:
- ⅔ Cup Dona Chai Original Chai Tea Concentrate
- 1 ½ sticks salted butter (12 T)
- 3 Tablespoons maple syrup
- 2 Cups organic cane sugar
- 4 eggs
- 2 Cups pumpkin purée
- ½ teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder
- 2 Cups organic flour (not enriched with folic acid) or gluten-free flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon pure sea salt or Himalayan pink salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
For the frosting:
- 1 Stick salted butter, room temp
- 4 Ounces cream cheese, room temp
- ¼ Cup Dona Chia Original Chai Tea Concentrate
- 1 ½ Cup organic confectionary (powdered) sugar
- 1 Pinch pure sea salt or Himalayan pink salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Butter three 9 x 5 loaf pans.
- Cream the butter, molasses, and sugar with an electric mixer.
- Beat in eggs, one at a time.
- Add Dona Chai and pumpkin purée, mix well.
- In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients.
- Slowly incorporate into the pumpkin mixture into the dry ingredients. Stir well until just combined.
- Pour batter into loaf pans.
- Bake for 1 hour, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- While the bread is baking, cream all ingredients for the frosting together on medium with your whisk attachment until well combined. Once well combined, increase your mixing speed to high and whip until the frosting becomes light and fluffy. This will take about two minutes. Be careful not to overwhip.
- Cool in pans for ten minutes, then turn out onto cooling racks.
- Once the pumpkin bread has cooled apply a layer of the chai frosting to the top of the loaf. Slice and enjoy!