I have a friend who requested a pumpkin babka after seeing the pictures of funky punky monkey bread on Instagram. I gave her options. Pumpkin chocolate. Monkey bread. Cinnamon rolls. Nope. She wanted a pumpkin babka. She teaches school and needed comfort food. She did not know what shape her students were going to be in after Harvey. They were good. But she does not eat well during the school year anyhow so why not!
I took my pumpkin chocolate babka recipe and modified it slightly. I wanted to get some more nutrition into her so I used white whole wheat flour and added a half a cup oatmeal. I left out the cocoa in the dough. I used the regular filling except making my own pumpkin pie spices because that was where I was at.
She said it was the size of a small turkey! She actually left half of it with me. I can say that it was quite tasty and she was not wrong on the size. I had my half for breakfast for a week.
I would make it again. I might cut the proportions in half though. She was not exaggerating about the size of the babka. But it all got eaten.