Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Name: Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 16
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 946 milliliters grated zucchini (from about a pound and a half of zucchini); 591 milliliters all purpose flour; 118 milliliters unsweetened cocoa (use natural unsweetened cocoa, NOT Dutch processed); 2 teaspoons baking soda; 1 teaspoons salt; 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 355 milliliters granulated white sugar; 2 eggs; 177 milliliters unsalted butter (12 Tbsp or 1 1/2 sticks), melted; 1 teaspoons instant coffee granules; 1 teaspoons almond extract

Chocolate Zucchini Bread might be a good recipe to expand your breakfast collection. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. Watching your figure? This lacto ovo vegetarian recipe has 240 calories, 4g of protein, and 10g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 16. If you have eggs, cinnamon, instant coffee granules, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 1 hour and 20 minutes.

Instructions

Place the freshly grated zucchini in a sieve over a bowl to catch any excess moisture as it drains, while you work on prepping the other ingredients and preparing the recipe.

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Zucchini

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Sieve

Bowl

If for some reason your zucchini is on the dry side, hydrate the shredded zucchini by soaking it in water first, and then place in sieve.

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Zucchini

Water

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Sieve

Preheat oven, prepare loaf pans: Preheat oven to 350°F, with a rack in the middle. Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans with baking spray or butter.

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Baking Spray

Butter

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Loaf Pan

Oven

Whisk together flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, cinnamon: Vigorously whisk together the flour, unsweetened cocoa, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a large bowl.

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Cocoa Powder

Baking Soda

Cinnamon

All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

Bowl

Whisk until there are no more clumps and the ingredients are well combined.

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Whisk

Beat sugar and eggs, add melted butter, instant coffee granules, almond extract: In a separate large bowl, beat together the sugar and eggs until smooth, about a minute. You can do this with an electric mixer on medium speed, or by hand with a wooden spoon. (I'm lazy and use a mixer but it's easy enough to do by hand.)

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Instant Coffee

Almond Extract

Butter

Sugar

Egg

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Hand Mixer

Wooden Spoon

Blender

Bowl

Add the melted butter, instant coffee granules, and almond extract and beat until smooth.

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Instant Coffee

Almond Extract

Butter

Stir zucchini into sugar egg mixture, add flour mixture:

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Zucchini

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Mix the shredded zucchini into the sugar egg mixture.

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Zucchini

Sugar

Egg

Add the flour to the zucchini mixture in 3 additions, stirring to combine after each addition.

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Zucchini

All Purpose Flour

Divide batter into pans and bake: Work quickly, and divide the batter between the two prepared loaf pans. (Work quickly because once the dry ingredients have mixed with the wet ingredients, the leavening has begun.)

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Loaf Pan

Oven

Place into the oven.

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Oven

Bake for 50 minutes at 350°F, or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out clean and easily.

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Oven

Skewers

Remove to a rack.

Let cool in the pan for 5 minutes, then run a blunt knife around the edges to separate the bread from the pan.

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Bread

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Knife

Frying Pan

Remove from the loaf pans and let cool completely on a rack.

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Loaf Pan

Note that if you try to slice the chocolate zucchini bread before it has completely cooled, it will be rather crumbly. It's also easiest to slice with a bread knife.

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Chocolate

Zucchini

Bread

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Bread Knife

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Servings:

946milliliters

grated zucchini (from about a pound and a half of zucchini)591milliliters

all purpose flour 118milliliters

unsweetened cocoa (use natural unsweetened cocoa, NOT Dutch processed)2teaspoons

baking soda 1teaspoons

salt 1teaspoon

cinnamon 355milliliters

granulated white sugar 2

eggs 177milliliters

unsalted butter (12 Tbsp or 1 1/2 sticks), melted 1teaspoons

instant coffee granules 1teaspoons

almond extract

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port are great choices for Chocolate Zucchini Bread. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. One wine you could try is NV Johnson Estate Cream Sherry. It has 5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 19 dollars.