Simply Divine Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Chocolate zucchini bread . . . cake . . . brownies, oh my!

If you love chocolate, be prepared for the most amazing chocolate recipe around. You will absolutely fall in love with my Simply Divine Chocolate Zucchini Bread! It is so incredibly easy and will remind you of your favorite chocolate cake - only this is BETTER!

This chocolate zucchini bread is not made with one, but TWO kinds of chocolate!!! That’s right, DOUBLE chocolate flavors make this bread absolutely decadent. It is incredibly moist and delicious! You may be asking yourself if this is really a quick bread or rather a cake, or is it indeed brownies . . ? And the hidden gem in this quick bread is the abundant zucchini. Nobody would even know you snuck vegetables into this glorious slice of heavenly dessert - unless you told them, that is! Oh and did I mention it’s made with light brown sugar in place of white sugar? That’s right, even MORE flavor awaits you with this chocolate zucchini bread!

Enjoy a slice of this wonderful chocolate zucchini bread with ice cream! After all, it will remind you of cake and cake and ice cream go hand-in-hand!

Simply Divine Chocolate Zucchini Bread is guaranteed to be your new favorite zucchini recipe. You might as well go ahead and make a double, triple, or quadruple batch. It freezes really well so that you can thaw a slice or two throughout the year, keeping your chocolate cravings satisfied!

About This Recipe  

Simply Divine Zucchini Bread is a really easy and phenominally delicious quick bread! This recipe makes 1 large loaf of bread packed full of zucchini, making it extra moist with lots of flavor. It's so easy to make and so satisfying to eat.

Let’s Talk A Little About Some of the Ingredients:

• Zucchini - Grate the zucchini, but there’s no need to peel it unless you absolutely want to. I prefer to leave the skin on when I make any kind of zucchini bread.

• Special Dark Hershey's Cocoa Powder AND semi-sweet chocolate chips. Double the chocolate, double the fun! PLUS, there are chocolate chips on top!

• The combination of eggs, melted butter, olive oil, light brown sugar, and zucchini come together to create the most incredibly moist bread.

• Vanilla Extract - a high quality extract delivers a heightened taste to whatever you use it in. Basically, quality ingredients produce quality baked goods. That is why I have switched from using regular vanilla extract to Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract for Baking and Cooking. You can find it HERE.

What kind of bread pan to use: I use (1) 8 1/2”x4 1/2” disposable aluminum foil pan for this recipe. It is slightly larger than the “normal” aluminum foil pans making it the perfect size for this recipe.

Is your zucchini bread falling apart when you slice it? If so, it most likely was too warm when you sliced it. The high moisture content in this recipe can cause the hot bread to crumble when sliced. Let cool for at least 30 minutes before cutting into it.

Want to mix it up a little? Use peanut butter chips in it instead of chocolate chips - or in addition to chocolate chips! Oh that sounds so delicious!

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Yield: 12

Author: Mama P

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SIMPLY DIVINE CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD

If you love chocolate, be prepared for the most amazing chocolate recipe around. You will absolutely fall in love with my Simply Divine Chocolate Zucchini Bread! It is so incredibly easy and will remind you of your favorite chocolate cake - only this is BETTER! This chocolate zucchini bread is not made with one, but TWO kinds of chocolate!!! That’s right, DOUBLE chocolate flavors make this bread absolutely decadent. It is incredibly moist and delicious! You may be asking yourself if this is really a quick bread or rather a cake, or is it indeed brownies . . ?

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 50 MinTotal time: 1 H & 5 M

Ingredients

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup Special Dark Hershey's Cocoa Powder
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 tsp. sea salt
• 2 large eggs, at room temperature
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter, melted and slightly cooled
• 1/4 cup olive oil or vegetable oil
• 3/4 cup light brown sugar, packed
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract (I use Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract)
• 2 cups grated zucchini *
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 ºF. Lightly grease a 8 1/2"x4 1/2" loaf pan**; set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and sea salt. Set aside.
3. In a large bowl, add the eggs, melted butter, oil, vanilla extract, and light brown sugar. Stir until smooth. There may be a few small brown sugar clumps, but that is fine.
4. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients, but DON'T overmix.
5. Stir in the shredded zucchini just until combined. Stir in 3/4 cup of the chocolate chips.
6. Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining 1/4 cup chocolate chips over the top of the bread.
7. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out MOSTLY clean. There may be some melted chocolate chips on the toothpick and that is fine, you just don't want a lot of gooey batter on the toothpick.
8. Remove the pan from the oven and let cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the bread and carefully remove bread from the pan. Let the bread cool on a wire rack until it is slightly warm. Cut into slices and serve.
9. ~ If you slice the bread when it is too warm it will fall apart.

Notes

*Zucchini can be grated with or without peeling. I prefer NOT to peel it, but that is just my preference.

**If using a different size loaf pan, just adjust the baking time up or down, depending on the size of the pan.

The bread will keep on the counter, in a tightly sealed container, for up to 4 days. After that it should be refrigerated to keep fresh.

This bread also freezes really well. Simply slice the bread when cooled and lay on a baking sheet in the freezer until frozen, then transfer slices to freezer bags and grab a piece to thaw out anytime you like!

Recommended Products:

Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla Extract for Baking and Cooking

Nutrition Facts

Calories

273.28

Fat

15.42 g

Sat. Fat

6.92 g

Carbs

31.91 g

Fiber

2.99 g

Net carbs

28.93 g

Sugar

19.37 g

Protein

4.03 g

Sodium

222.08 mg

Cholesterol

42.05 mg

**Nutritional information is an estimate and may vary

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