Chocolate Zucchini Bread

September 24, 2022

Chocolate Zucchini Bread is the best chocolatey zucchini bread with extra chocolate chips baked into it.

This is the perfect summer bread recipe- especially if you still have a bounty of zucchini from your garden lurking around and you don’t know what to do with it. Bake some chocolate zucchini bread! You’re so lucky because this recipe makes two loaves of bread. So you can eat one and gift one to a friend. Or you can eat one now and freeze the other for later!

Ingredients needed:

granulated white sugar
canola or vegetable oil
eggs
vanilla extract
all purpose flour
unsweetened cocoa powder
baking soda, baking powder and salt
zucchini
miniature chocolate chips

How to make Chocolate Zucchini Bread:

The complete, printable recipe is at the end of this post.

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray two 8×4-inch loaf pans with nonstick spray.

In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to beat the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla until well-mixed. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda and baking powder. Gradually beat the sugar mixture until blended. Stir in the zucchini and the chocolate chips.

Bake 50 to 55 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing the loaves from the pans to cool completely.

I personally like to cut into this chocolate zucchini bread before it has totally cooled off. The chocolate chips will be kind of melted and wonderful in every bite! Can you taste the zucchini? No, you cannot taste the zucchini. Zucchini is a wonderful addition to breads because it contributes to the moisture of the bread without adding a bunch of bad calories and fat.

But then, of course, as most bread recipes do… the flavor in this bread tends to intensify when wrapped up and served the next day. It’s a mighty delicious zucchini bread to make for chocolate lovers!

Is it breakfast, or is it dessert? Or is a snack? The answer is “all the above!” If you want an excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast, then this chocolate zucchini bread will do the trick. If you need dessert, the chocolate will satisfy that dessert craving. And then, of course, you can eat it any time of day as a snack too. Enjoy!

How to freeze zucchini bread:

Wrap your chocolate zucchini bread loaf tightly in plastic wrap or foil, and then slip it into a large freezer zip baggie before storing in the freezer. Freeze for up to 6 months. Then take out and thaw when ready to eat.

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