Simple and Delicious Zucchini Bread

Preheat oven to 350ºF. Spray 2 loaf pans with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.

Sift and whisk together flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt.

In a separate bowl, whisk together the egg, applesauce, oil, sugar and vanilla. Add the zucchini and coat.

Add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture a little bit at a time until well-mixed. At this point you can mix in your extras such as chopped nuts, chocolate chips, etc. Add as much or as little of them as you’d like.

Divide the mix into both loaf pans and pop them into the oven. The bread should bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. My oven runs hot, so my bread was done only in for about 35 minutes. Yours may take longer, so to avoid burning, start checking your bread at about the 25-30 minute mark and see how it’s doing. Increase time from there.

Once you take your bread out of the oven, let it cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15-20 minutes. Flip out of the pan and let the loaves continue to cool on a wire rack.

Adapted from recipes from All Recipes and Simply Recipes.