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5 from 52 votes

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Moist and tender this Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread is just one more way to enjoy abundant zucchini!
Prep Time15 minutes
Cook Time1 hour 15 minutes
Cooling Time1 hour
Course: Bread Recipes, Breakfast Recipes, Dessert Recipes
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 slices
Calories: 490kcal
Author: Laura

Ingredients

  • 2 small zucchinis 3 cups shredded zucchini
  • 1 ½ cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • cup vegetable oil
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • 3 ¾ cup all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1 ½ cups semi sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

  • shred or grate zucchini and set aside
  • Preheat oven to 325º
  • lightly grease a loaf pan or use cooking spray, set aside
  • In a large mixing bowl, whisk sugar, eggs, oil, and vanilla together and set aside
    Mix wet ingredients for zucchini bread.
  • in a medium bowl stir together flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon, and mix together
  • add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and stir to combine, just until the flour mixture is incorporated
  • pour off any excess water in the zucchini bowl
  • Add zucchini, and stir until fully incorporated, don't overmix quick breads
    Shredded zucchini added to batter in a bowl.
  • Stir in chocolate chips
    Chocolate chips added to zucchini bread batter.
  • Pour into the prepared pan
    Zucchini Bread batter in a loaf pan.
  • Sprinkle with extra chocolate chips if desired
    Optional extra chocolate chips on top of zucchini bread batter in a loaf pan.
  • Bake in center of oven for 75 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean if you can manage to avoid a chocolate chip
  • Remove from oven and let cool 10 minutes on a cooling rack
    Baked zucchini bread in a loaf pan.
  • Then turn it out of the pan onto the cooling rack and let cool completely
  • You can slice it while it's warm and slather it with butter if you want to, the loaf won't slice as cleanly when sliced warm though

Nutrition

Serving: 1serving | Calories: 490kcal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 22g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Trans Fat: 0.1g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 236mg | Potassium: 236mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 34g | Vitamin A: 51IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 29mg | Iron: 3mg