Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Chocolate Zucchini Bread is the perfect blend of indulgence and wholesome goodness, offering a moist, rich texture that’s impossible to resist. With just 20 minutes of prep and a little over an hour in the oven, this recipe is surprisingly simple yet delivers a bakery-worthy result.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
- ⅔ cup light brown sugar firmly packed
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda
- ¾ teaspoons table salt
- ½ cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee optional
- ½ cup very hot/steaming water
- ½ cup unsalted butter melted
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten (room temperature preferred)
- 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups grated zucchini blotted after measuring/weighing (see note)
- 1 ½ cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and lightly grease and flour a 9×5" bread pan (or make a parchment paper sling). Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, whisk together flour, sugars, baking soda, and salt.
- In a large measuring cup or medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk together cocoa powder, instant coffee (if using) and very hot water until smooth and well-combined.
- Whisk melted butter into the cocoa mixture, then add eggs and vanilla and whisk until well-combined.
- Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture and gently fold together until about 50% combined.
- Add zucchini and chocolate chips and continue to gently fold together until mixture is uniformly combined. Don’t over-mix or bread could be dense/rubbery.
- Spread batter evenly into prepared bread pan.
- Transfer to center rack of 350F (175C) oven and bake for 85-90 minutes (see note) and until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out clean or with a few moist crumbs (make sure you’re not skewering a melted chocolate chip and re-try if you do!).
- Allow bread to cool completely (or at least mostly) in pan before removing, slicing and serving. I love chocolate zucchini bread while it’s still warm but the slices are more prone to falling apart when cut warm.
Nutrition
Calories: 357kcalCarbohydrates: 47gProtein: 5gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 49mgSodium: 303mgPotassium: 285mgFiber: 4gSugar: 29gVitamin A: 329IUVitamin C: 4mgCalcium: 41mgIron: 3mg
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