Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Bake up a batch of double chocolate zucchini bread with cocoa powder and chocolate chips. You don’t have to tell your family there’s zucchini in this chocolatey bread!
Makes 18 slices
Ingredients
- 1 and ½ cups sugar
- ½ cup plain Greek yogurt
- 2 teaspoon vanilla
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs at room temperature
- 2 and ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 and ½ cup dark chocolate chips reserve several for topping
- 2 cups shredded zucchini
Instructions
- Combine your wet ingredients (yogurt, oil, vanilla and eggs) plus your sugar until well mixed.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda and baking powder, salt and chocolate chips.
- Add the wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir just until combined. Then, gently fold in the zucchini until it’s mixed.
- Let the batter rest for 20 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Grease two 8.5" x 4.5" or 9" x 5" loaf pans. Divide the mixture evenly into both pans. Sprinkle a few chocolate chips on top. If you forget, it's not a big deal, it just makes it look extra yummy!
- Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean.
- Cool completely before slicing and enjoying!
Farm Girl Tips
- Let the batter rest for at least 20 minutes. I’m no food scientist, but I did discover that you’ll have a prettier top to your bread or muffins if you let it rest before going right into the oven.
- Speaking of which, you can also make these bread recipe as muffins. You can make this recipe as two loaves of bread, or about 24 muffins. Both are delicious and fun to make!
- I like using dark chocolate for this recipe. If you’re looking for a sweeter chocolate zucchini bread you can substitute semi sweet or milk chocolate chips.
- Save a few chocolate chips to sprinkle on top before baking.
- You can freeze your double chocolate zucchini bread for three months. Wrap it in plastic wrap before freezing. For easy thawing you can wrap individual slices and pull them for lunches or snacks.
- Makes 8x5 loaves or approximately 24 muffins.
Nutrition
Serving: 1grams | Calories: 252kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 5g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Cholesterol: 19mg | Sodium: 152mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 22g
