A delicious chocolate chip zucchini bread that is moist, flavorful and tender! A tasty way to get in your veggies. This bread is vegan and whole grain!
I feel like every season has it’s specific and perfect bread. Now that we are in summer, I’ve noticed an uptick of zucchini, and the best way to get through that is to make some zucchini bread. When making this bread, I wanted to make sure that it was fluffy, flavorful, and could double as either a dessert or something you could easily enjoy for breakfast. This bread came out more than perfect.
Why add zucchini to your bread?
If you’ve never had zucchini bread, I promise it doesn’t taste like a vegetable bread. If anything, most that I’ve tried in the past seem like they should be called zucchini cake. It’s very similar to a carrot cake except different. I feel it’s much lighter and because of the nature of zucchini it’s definitely light and less dense.
Zucchini also has a an abundance of nutrients as well. I mean, if you can make your bread a little more nutritious, adding fruit or veggies will usually do the trick! Zucchini won’t effect the taste of your bread, but it will give it more fiber for better digestion as well as a mix of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. In particular, zucchini tends to have a bit more beta-carotene and vitamin C.
How to make chocolate chip zucchini bread
- Preheat oven to 350F. In a medium sized mixing bowl combine ground flaxseed and water, stir and let sit for 5 minutes.
- Once flax seeds gel up, add applesauce and zucchini with a fork or whisk, mix together.
- Add in peanut butter, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, and brown sugar and mix well into the zucchini mixture.
- Add in baking soda and baking powder and whisk together to evenly combine. You will notice the batter grow and get bubbly.
- Add in flour 1/2 cup at a time and mix into batter. Repeat until all of the flour is incorporated. Add chocolate chips then fold them into the batter. Batter will be thick.
- Spoon batter into a lightly greased loaf pan and place in the oven. Bake in the over for 50-55 minutes, making sure a toothpick comes out clean.
Tips for making chocolate chip zucchini bread
- When it comes to the grated zucchini, you can either grate by hand or use a grating attachment on your food processor to make grating super easy.
- If you have little ones that don’t like seeing the green parts of the zucchini skin, you can also peel your zucchini before grating it for this recipe.
- To ensure your bread rises well and is fluffy, don’t skip the apple cider vinegar. It reacts with the baking soda and baking powder and helps to create and air and lift in your bread.
- To make this bread nut free, feel free to swap the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter, coconut oil or tahini.
More nutritious dessert ideas
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Total Time: 65 minutes
- Yield: 10 slices 1x
- Category: Dessert
- Cuisine: American
Description
A delicious chocolate chip zucchini bread that is moist, flavorful and tender! A tasty way to get in your veggies. This bread is vegan and whole grain!
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp ground flaxseed
- 4 tbsp water
- 1 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup grated zucchini
- 1/4 cup natural peanut butter
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 cups spelt flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup dairy free dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- In a medium sized mixing bowl combine ground flaxseed and water, stir and let sit for 5 minutes.
- Once flax seeds gel up, add apple sauce and grated zucchini and with a fork or whisk mix together evenly.
- Add in peanut butter, apple cider vinegar, cinnamon, and brown sugar and mix well into the zucchini mixture.
- Stir in baking soda and baking powder and whisk together to evenly combine. You will notice the batter bubble and rise.
- Fold in salt and flour 1/2 cup at a time and mix into batter. Repeat until all of the flour is incorporated.
- Add chocolate chips then fold them into the batter.
- Batter will be thick, spoon batter into a lightly greased loaf pan and place in the oven.
- Bake in the over for 50-55 minutes, making sure a toothpick comes out clean before removing from the oven.
- Make sure to allow bread to cool for a few minutes before cutting into it.
Notes
- I have not tested this recipe with gluten free flour yet. If you try this with a different flour mix, please let me know and I will update my recipe here until I get a chance to test it myself.
Keywords: dessert bread, zucchini, zucchini bread
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★ Catherine
Hi thought you may want to know that when I go to print the recipe its comes up as Chocolate Chip Walnut Banana Bread. This recipe looks amazing , will be trying soon.
So sorry about the confusion. The title was the only thing wrong. I corrected it. The recipe should be the absolute same. 🙂
Look yummy! Please keep up the good works!
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Thank you!
Just tried this recipe. I used unbleached all purpose flour instead of spelt flour. It turned out great. Thanks for the recipe!
So glad you had success with this recipe. You are so welcome and if anything thanks for trying it!
We made your chocolate chip zucchini bread for house church brunch this morning and it was delicious! We used mostly unbleached all purpose flour with a small percentage of whole wheat flour. Thank you for your work in providing us with healthy plant based recipes! You never miss!
Hi I have recently tried a few different recipes because I had a lot of zucchini from my garden and this one I really liked the best. To make it more protein packed, I substituted the spelt flour for Kodiak Cakes buttermilk flapjack mix so i didn’t at the other ingredients needed for the flour. I also substituted brown sugar with trivia brown sugar blend. I love it with chocolate chunks and chopped walnuts!
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hi there, i was wondering if i could use 3 mashed (aka 1 cup) bananas instead of the unsweetened apple sauce since and turn it into a lighter version of the chocolate chip walnut banana bread (which i love). best xx
I am so so sorry I missed this comment Mimi. This should work really well with the banana, in fact I really love this idea a lot. If you’ve already tried it, let me know how it turned out! Hope you enjoyed it. 🙂
:hahah dw, i just went ahead and made and it was absolutely lovely :)))
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I’m gonna give this a try myself soon. So glad you enjoyed!
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