How to easily make homemade chocolate zucchini bread. This is a fresh take on the classic zucchini bread.
Ingredients:
3 cups all purpose flour
¼ unsweetened cocoa powder
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups white sugar
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 cups shredded zucchini
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips Optional – up to 1 cup chopped walnuts to sprinkle on top of loaf
This recipe makes 2 loaves using 9 x 5 bread pans, or 24 cupcakes/muffins/ or a combination of 1 loaf and 12 cupcake/muffins.
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Shred your zucchini using either a hand shredder or food processor. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt. Mix well, then add in your cocoa.
- In a separate bowl, combine sugar and eggs and blend together. Add oil and vanilla and beat mixture together. Stir in Zucchini to wet mixture.
- Combine dry ingredients into wet mixture and mix well. Stir in chocolate chips.
- Spoon into loaf pans and/or cupcake pan.
- Bake in preheated oven. Bread loaf pans should bake for 50-55 minutes and cupcake pans should bake for 25-30 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. After baking let bread set in pans for 10 minutes before removing.