Description
This Chocolate Zucchini Bread is rich, fudgy, and incredibly moist, packed with deep chocolate flavor and studded with chocolate chips. Made with shredded zucchini, it stays tender without tasting vegetal—perfect for breakfast, snack time, or dessert.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1½ cups shredded zucchini (unpeeled, blotted dry)
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs
- ¾ cup granulated sugar (or mix of white and brown)
- ½ cup vegetable oil or melted coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup chocolate chips (semi-sweet or dark)
- Optional: ½ cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Instructions
- Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Grease or line a loaf pan.
- Zucchini: Shred zucchini and blot well with paper towels to remove excess moisture.
- Dry Ingredients: In a bowl, whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- Wet Ingredients: In another bowl, whisk eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla until smooth.
- Combine: Add dry ingredients to wet and stir just until combined.
- Fold In: Gently fold in zucchini, chocolate chips, and nuts if using.
- Bake: Pour batter into loaf pan and bake 50–60 minutes, until a toothpick comes out with moist crumbs.
- Cool: Let cool in pan 10 minutes, then transfer to a rack to cool completely.
Notes
- Do not peel zucchini: The skin softens and blends into the bread.
- Extra moist: Replace up to half the oil with applesauce if desired.
- Mini loaves: Bake 25–30 minutes in mini pans.
- Storage: Bread tastes even better the next day.
- Freezing: Freeze whole loaf or slices up to 3 months.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 55 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- Method: Baked
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 260
- Sugar: 22g
- Sodium: 180mg
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 5g
- Unsaturated Fat: 8g
- Trans Fat: 0g
- Carbohydrates: 34g
- Fiber: 3g
- Protein: 4g
- Cholesterol: 35mg
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