Weekend Recipe: Zucchini Bread

Turns out that while my 15-month-old son won't touch cooked zucchini, he will gobble down zucchini bread with wild abandon. Even the fact that it's green doesn't appear to deter him. I also find it quite tasty, so I've been whipping up a batch of this every other week or so these days. The recipe makes two loaves, and just for variety (and another excuse to use the presliced brownie pan), I like to bake half the batter in the Slice Solutions brownie pan, so I've got some snack cake, and the other half in the Slice Solutions loaf pan.

Zucchini Bread

Ingredients:
3 cups flour (I like a mixture of white flour and oat flour, but whole wheat is also good)
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 teaspoons cinnamon
3 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup applesauce
2 cups sugar
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups grated zucchini (approximately 2-3 medium zucchini)

Directions:
1. Spray two loaf pans (or other preferred pans) with nonstick cooking spray. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. In a medium bowl, stir together flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, and cinnamon.
3. Beat eggs, oil, applesauce, vanilla, and sugar together in a large bowl until well combined. Stir in dry ingredients and beat well. Stir in zucchini and mix well. Pour batter into prepared pans.
4. Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into the center of the loaves comes out clean. Cool in pans on rack for 20-30 minutes. Remove bread from pans and cool completely.

Makes two loaves.

--KitchenMaus

Comments

[mugs on September 21, 2008 at 07:34 AM]

I'm a guy with very limited baking experience and this was an easy and surprisingly quick recipe. Oh, and did I mention totally delish? No? OK, well now I have. This is a goodie!

[Shannon K on October 01, 2008 at 01:09 PM]

My grandma always made Zucchini bread for us when we were young and she added chocolate chips to it. It is delicious that way!

[on October 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM]

I mix unsweetened cocoa powder in my zucchini bread. It comes out deliciously chocolately and will camouflage the green bits for anyone who is really squeamish about vegetables.