Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe

Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe

How To Make Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Have an indulgent breakfast and dessert with this chocolate zucchini bread. It’s baked with whole wheat flour and applesauce with walnut for crunch.

Preparation: 20 minutes
Cooking: 55 minutes
Total: 1 hour 15 minutes

Serves:

Ingredients

  • 1cupall purpose flour
  • 1cupwhole wheat flour
  • ¼cupunsweetened cocoa,preferably Dutch process
  • ½tspbaking powder
  • ½tspbaking soda
  • ½tspsalt
  • 3large eggs,lightly beaten
  • 1cupsugar
  • ¾cupunsweetened applesauce
  • ¼cupcanola oil
  • 1tspvanilla extract
  • 1ozunsweetened chocolate,melted
  • ½cupwalnuts,(1¾ oz) chopped
  • 2cupszucchini,grated from 1 large, squeezed well with a dishcloth
  • baking spray

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Spray two 8½x4½-inch loaf pans with cooking spray.

  2. Whisk all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl.

  3. Whisk eggs, sugar, applesauce, oil, vanilla, and melted chocolate in another large bowl until blended.

  4. Add the dry ingredients and stir with a rubber spatula until just combined.

  5. Fold in zucchini and walnuts.

  6. Pour the batter into the prepared pans. Bake the loaves for 55 to 60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

  7. Let cool for 10 minutes. Invert onto rack and cool completely.

Nutrition

  • Calories: 169.35kcal
  • Fat: 5.82g
  • Saturated Fat: 1.29g
  • Trans Fat: 0.02g
  • Monounsaturated Fat: 2.89g
  • Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.37g
  • Carbohydrates: 27.06g
  • Fiber: 2.09g
  • Sugar: 14.10g
  • Protein: 3.72g
  • Cholesterol: 34.91mg
  • Sodium: 139.29mg
  • Calcium: 26.33mg
  • Potassium: 133.84mg
  • Iron: 1.40mg
  • Vitamin A: 16.67µg
  • Vitamin C: 5.20mg
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