Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread Great for Thanksgiving

We needed to make a dish with pumpkin in it for a fourth grade Thanksgiving celebration so we whipped up my favorite pumpkin chocolate chip bread recipe. I, personally, don't even like pumpkin but really like this bread. If you have kids over for Thanksgiving and don't think they'll enjoy a pumpkin pie, try this out. It can be your new tradition!

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread Ingredients:
Dry ingredients:
1 3/4 cup flour
1 1/2 t. cinnamon
1 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda

Other ingredients:
1 stick butter room temp
1 1/4 cup sugar
3 eggs
1 cup pumpkin (from a can)
1 t. vanilla
1/3 cup milk (I used skim)
1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350. Use flour based Pam (or grease and flour) two metal loaf pans. Combine dry ingredients and set aside. Combine other ingredients and use an electric mixer to mix them up in this order; butter first, then sugar, eggs, pumpkin, vanilla, milk and dry ingredients. Then stir in (by hand) the chocolate chips.

Cook about 55 minutes or until loaf feels firm and a knife comes out of the center clean (or with just melted chocolate!)

Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving to all.