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This easy pumpkin bread recipe scented with orange and filled with chopped chocolate is a winner. Not too sweet, extremely moist and perfect for fall!
If you’ve been following us for a while, you’ve probably noticed our love for quick breads and muffins. There’s good reason for that — they are easy! We’ve shared zucchini bread, a ridiculously good banana bread recipe, extremely popular blueberry muffins, peach muffins … I could go on.
You May Also Like these Pumpkin Cupcakes inspired by our pumpkin bread recipe. The smell of them baking in the oven is hard to beat. They’re moist, deeply flavored with pumpkin puree and spices then topped with creamy frosting.
You see all of those recipes call on the “muffin method” —…
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