Best Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe
This Chocolate Zucchini Bread is super moist and delicious; it’s so chocolatey and has all the goodness of zucchini in the bread.
Ingredients
- 260 g plain flour or all purpose flour 2 cups (loosely packed)
- 85 g Soft butter or melted butter or any flavorless oil 6 tbsp
- 150 g Sugar or 3/4 cup
- 2 Eggs
- 250 g Grated Zucchini or 1 and 1/2 cups
- 14 g Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
- 5 ml vanilla extract or vanilla powder 1 tsp
- 1/8 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tbsp Baking powder
- 150 g Semi sweet or milk chocolate chips 3/4 cup
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 325 F or 165 C.
Combine All the Wet Ingredients
Prepare the baking pan by greasing the pan(9×5 inch) with some butter and keep it aside.
- Into a bowl, add in the softened butter and sugar and whisk them together.Add 2 eggs and combine together.Now add the grated zucchini into this.If you see the batter getting curdled,don’t worry.It is because of the high proportion of wet ingredients.It will get resolved when we add dry ingredients into this.
Combine all the dry ingredients
- Add the cocoa powder, baking powder, vanilla powder and salt into the flour and mix them all together.Sift and add this into the wet batter.When it is almost combined ,add the chocolate chips into this.At this point, after adding the flour, we need to take care not to over mix the batter as it can cause the gluten to develop, which can lead to tough and rubbery chocolate zucchini bread.
Transfer the batter on to the prepared baking pan.
- Sprinkle the top with some chocolate chips.
Bake the Chocolate Zucchini Bread
- Bake chocolate chip zucchini bread @ 325 F or 165 C preheated oven for about 65-70 minutes.
- After baking the zucchini chocolate bread, let the bread sit in the pan 10 minutes. Then, remove the zucchini bread from the pan and let it finish cooling completely on a metal rack before you slice it.