• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• To prepare topping, chop pecans on cutting board. I bought prechopped pecans but still chopped more finely. Take the butter and with a knife cut into thin slivers. Put the butter, pecans, and sugar in a bowl and sprinkle cinnamon in bowl (about 1/4 tsp). with a small spoon or your hands mix until well combined. set aside.

For the Honey Cream Cheese Filling

• Mix the cream cheese, egg yolk, sugar, milk and honey together until well combined. Set aside.

For the Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Bread

• Combine the flour, sugar, chocolate chips, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg in a large bowl. Stir well with a whisk. Make a well in the center.
• Combine the pumkin, yogurt, honey, veg. oil vanilla and eggs in a medium bowl and add to the well of the flour mixture. Stir until just combined (don't over mix!)
• Spray 9 x 5 loaf pan with cooking spray. Put 1/2 of the mixture in the pan. Then spread the cream cheese mixture down the middle, but stop before you reach the very end.
• Put the second 1/2 of the mixture on top of the cream chese mixture. Sprinkle the reserved 1/4 cup chocolate chips on top of the loaf. Press very gently on the chips to stick them slightly to the batter.
• Bake at 350 for 1 hour.
• Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 20 mintues. Very carefull remove the bread and let cool completly on a wire rack.

This is a very rich bread. If you desire a lighter bread add just 1 cup of pumpkin and not the whole can