Spiced pumpkin cream cheese bread, packed with Fall flavors like pumpkin, cinnamon, ginger & nutmeg! Pumpkin sweet bread with a lovely swirl of cream cheese in the middle & topped with chocolate chips!
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. Line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper, then grease the parchment paper with cooking spray.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and spices.
In a large bowl, combine pumpkin puree, eggs, vegetable oil, yogurt, milk, vanilla, and sugar.
Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients and stir until just combined. Stir in 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
For the cheesecake filling, beat the cream cheese with sugar, yolk, and vanilla until smooth.
Pour about 4-5 tablespoons of batter into the loaf pan, spread to cover the bottom, and then spoon about 3 tablespoons of cream cheese filling and spread it on top. Continue to alternate until the pan is 3/4 full. Sprinkle the remaining chocolate chips on top.
Bake for 60-80 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If the top of the bread gets too dark, you can loosely cover it with foil.
Remove the loaf from the oven and allow to cool for 15 minutes in the pan. Transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely before slicing and serving. Enjoy!
Notes
*Can replace each individual spice with 2 tsp pumpkin pie spice instead!