Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread

I’m kind of on a pumpkin kick at the moment.  I bought two today for 50frs ($0.10) each.  Hard to pass up that bargain!  Unfortunately when I cut into them, they were both green on the inside.  But my heart was set of making this chocolate-chip pumpkin bread (which I altered slightly), so I baked one of the melons anyway.  Fortunately, it tasted like a normal pumpkin.  And with the spices and chocolate, it turned out delicious!  Except for the pumpkin pie spice, which was given to me by a COS-ing volunteer and vanilla extract from the US, all the ingredients can be found in Bafoussam or my village.

Ingredients:

1. 3 ½ c flour
2. 1t ground cinnamon
3. 1t pumpkin pie spice
4. 1T ground nutmeg
5. 2t baking soda
6. 1 ½ t salt
7. 2 ½ c sugar
8. 2 c mashed cooked pumpkin
9. 2/3c water
10. 4 eggs
11. ¾ c oil
12. 1t vanilla
13. 200g dark chocolate, chopped

1. Preheat oven to 350°.  This recipe makes three loaves, or one loaf and one bunt cake.  Grease whichever molds you have.
2. Sift together flour, spices, baking soda, and salt.  Set aside.
3. Combine sugar, pumpkin, water, eggs, oil and vanilla.
4. Slowly blend flour mixture into wet ingredients.  Fold in chocolate chunks.
5. Pour into pans and bake 60 minutes (!) or until toothpick comes out clean. 

Enjoy with friends and neighbors!