Impress Your Friends & Family With A Regular or Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Impress Your Friends & Family With A Regular or Chocolate Zucchini Bread
It is the time of the year when some friends and family might be bringing over that huge zucchini for you. Yes, you’re thankful but I’m pretty sure that you won’t know what to make with that huge zucchini. Well making homemade zucchini bread might be the answer to your woes. There are lots of variations of zucchini bread but the 2 recipes below sort of hit the mark for me.
If you’re not so adventurous in your palate, you might like to try my good ‘ole regular zucchini bread but if you have that adventurous streak please do try my chocolate-zucchini bread. Feel free to adapt these recipes to your own liking though.
REGULAR ZUCCHINI BREAD
3 pcs eggs (large)
1 c vegetable or olive oil
1 3/4 c sugar
3 c all-purpose flour
2 c zucchini; grated
2 tsps vanilla extract
3 tsps cinnamon
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
1/2 c chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)
1 c dried cranberries or raisins (optional)
Preheat oven to 350 deg. F.
Grease and flour two 8�4 inch loaf pans, liberally. Alternately, line 24 muffin cups with paper liners. In your large bowl, beat the eggs with a whisk. Add in oil & sugar, then zucchini & vanilla. Combine flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda, baking powder and salt, as well as nuts and/or dried fruit, if using.
Stir this into the egg mixture. Divide the batter to your prepared pans. Bake loaves for 60 minutes, plus or minus ten, or just until a tester inserted into the center comes out clean. Muffins will bake far more quickly, approximately 20 to 25 minutes.
DOUBLE CHOCOLATE-ZUCCHINI BREAD
2 c flour (all-purpose)
1/2 c unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted
1 c sugar
3/4 c buttermilk
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
2 eggs (large)
1/3 c vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 medium zucchini, shredded (1 – 1 1/4 cups)
1 c choco chips
Preheat oven to 350F. Lightly grease a 9�5-inch loaf pan.
Into a large bowl, sift together flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Into a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, vegetable oil, buttermilk and vanilla. Add to dry recipe ingredients then stir until almost fully combined. Add in zucchini & choco chips and stir until evenly distributed in the batter (batter should be fairly thick).
Bake for 50-55 minutes, or just until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean or with only moist crumbs attached.
Turn loaf out of pan and cool on a wire rack before slicing.
Go ahead and try out these recipes that I just shared. At least you’ll have a better use for that huge zucchini you might get in the future. Enjoy