Trying Out A New Recipe: Eat At Maude’s “Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Bread With Espresso Frosting”

It’s been a big baking week for me, and y’all are getting subjected to my trials and errors as I try out new recipes. For today’s baked good we have a chocolate chip pumpkin bread with espresso frosting from Eat At Maude’s. With it being fall now, I thought this was an appropriate choice. I have followed Eat At Maude’s on Instagram for a few months now and I am constantly amazed at how good everything she makes looks, so I had high hopes for this recipe. Plus, quick breads are usually kind of my specialty, so I figured this would be an easy one for me. The list of ingredients for this recipe is not exactly what I would call short. You can follow along with the recipe here. Here’s the lineup: I think these ingredients are mostly very normal except the buttermilk definitely threw me for a loop. I can’t remember the last time I bought buttermilk. Unfortunately the store did not have their little quart size in stock so I had to get a full half gallon. Thankfully I have another recipe on…