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Chocolate Zucchini Bread

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This is my all time favorite bread to make. It is amazingly soft and rich. And you can even say it is healthy because of the added zucchini!

Ingredients

  • FOR THE TOPPING:
  • 2 Tablespoons Brown Sugar
  • 2 Tablespoons White Sugar
  • ½ teaspoons Cinnamon
  • _____
  • FOR THE BREAD:
  • 2 cups Flour
  • 2 teaspoons Cinnamon
  • 1-½ teaspoon Baking Soda
  • ½ teaspoons Salt
  • 6 Tablespoons Unsweet Cocoa Powder
  • ½ cups Canola Oil
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • ¼ cups Brown Sugar
  • 3 whole Eggs
  • 2 teaspoons Vanilla
  • ½ cups Sour Cream, Lite
  • 3 cups Zucchini, Grated
  • ¾ cups Mini Chocolate Chips

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350ºF.

Butter and flour 2 loaf pans and set aside.

Mix the topping ingredients. Set it aside.

For the bread, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder together. Set aside.

With a mixer, beat oil, sugar, brown sugar, and eggs until fluffy. This should take about 2 minutes.

Add vanilla and sour cream. Mix.

Fold in the zucchini and chocolate chips.

Divide the batter between the two pans and pour the sugar topping over the bread mixture.

Bake for 50 to 60 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes before removing from the pans. Enjoy!

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shari on 5.20.2011

I’m definitely going to be making this when the zucchini starts coming on! What size loaf pans should I use? Thanks!

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SaraKate on 8.23.2011

Fabulous! My mom made this and it was delicious! We made it into little chocolate muffins, which froze beautifully. After making it with “regular” flour, we also made a batch substituting gluten-free flour mix for the flour and it worked like a charm!

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