Recipe

Chocolate Zuke Bread

Recipe
No Questions Yet

This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Summer Squash Recipe
Chef
rarepair's Notes: This bread was inspired by a book report my then second grader had to do about Native American Indians. Appropriate props, including food, were encouraged. Some of the ingredients available...
This bread was inspired by a book report my then second grader had to do about Native American Indians. Appropriate props, including food, were encouraged. Some of the ingredients available to them were corn, a variety of squashes, and cocoa (chocolate). I adapted a basic zucchini nut loaf recipe from the old standby cookbook Better Homes and Gardens, with several variations, namely, chocolate! Oddly enough, zucchini and chocolate is a marriage made in heaven.

Expand Collapse

Serves 1 loaf

1 1/2 cup all purpose flour Ask a question about this ingredient

1/2 teaspoon baking soda Ask a question about this ingredient

1/2 teaspoon sea salt Ask a question about this ingredient

1/4 teaspoon baking powder Ask a question about this ingredient

1 cup turbinado sugar Ask a question about this ingredient

1 cup peeled, finely shredded fresh harvested zucchini Ask a question about this ingredient

1 egg Ask a question about this ingredient

1 cup bitter sweet chocolate chips Ask a question about this ingredient

1 teaspoon cinnamon Ask a question about this ingredient

1 teaspoon cinnamon sugar Ask a question about this ingredient

teaspoons vanilla Ask a question about this ingredient

1 6 oz. container vanilla yogurt Ask a question about this ingredient

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a standard sized loaf pan with spray oil. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. In another bowl, cream sugar, egg and vanilla. Mix in yogurt. Gently fold in shredded zucchini and chocolate chips. Pour into loaf pan. Sprinkle liberally with cinnamon sugar. Bake 50 to 60 minutes until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool and remove from pan.
Ask a question about this step

2 Comments on Chocolate Zuke Bread

ChefsWife2 added 10 months ago

Made these today due to a surplus of CSA zucchini -- Yum! One problem with the recipe though -- there are no specific instructions for mixing the wet and dry ingredients. Experienced bakers will not be thrown by this, but someone less so might be confused... In any event I made these as muffins baked for 30 minutes and they turned out perfectly. This could be my new go-to zucchini bread recipe -- thanks!