Primarily Primal Pumpkin Pie

First of all, let me start off  by offering my apologies for posting yet another pumpkin recipe.  I swear this will be the last one for the season. Maybe.  I came across this primal pumpkin bread from the blog eat the cookie and i haven’t been able to stop thinking about it, so instead of going to the gym today I baked a version of it.

Here is what you’ll need (for my version):

The troops

Here are the directions from this original version, with my very few variations noted:

pumpkin bread

1 cup pumpkin puree

2 eggs

1 cup  3/4c maple syrup

1/2 tsp allspice  1/2t ground glove

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp nutmeg

2/3 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 packed cups almond meal

1/2 cup whey protein powder or coconut flour, measure, then sift- I didn’t sift.  oops.  I used Primal protein powder, which has stevia in it, and I used chocolate chips, so that is why I cut down on the maple syrup.

optional stir-ins: handful of toasted, chopped pecans, chopped crystalized ginger  1/2 c gluten-free chocolate chips

method:

preheat oven to 350f. grease 2 small (7 3/8x 3 3/8) or 1 regular (9×5) loaf pan  1 pie pan. i like to cut a large strip of parchment paper for easy removal.  I used a pie pan simply because my loaf pan was being used for meat loaf.

combine all ingredients, beating well with handmixer. pour into loaf pans pie pan.

prior to oven love

bake for 45 minutes, I only baked for 40 min, until toothpick comes clean when inserted in the middle.

remove from oven and allow to cool

top with coconut sorbet...

This was most def worth skipping the gym for.