Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Lightly grease two 9x5 loaf pans with soft butter.

In a large bowl, use a hand mixer to mix together the pumpkin purée, eggs, oil, water and sugar until well blended.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and ginger.

Pour the flour mixture into the pumpkin mixture and use a hand mixer to mix until just blended.

Stir in the chocolate chips if making two chocolate chip pumpkin breads. Otherwise pour half of the batter into one of the prepared loaf pans. You can stir in chocolate chips to the remaining batter, or leave the batter as is and pour into the second prepared pan.

Bake for 60 minutes in the preheated oven. Loaves are done when a long toothpick inserted in the center of the loaves come out clean. For the chocolate chip pumpkin loaves you may see melted chocolate on the toothpick which is fine, but you should not see pumpkin batter.

Cool for 10 mins, then take the loaves out of the pan.