Chocolate Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread

Nado2003's Note:

I tweaked HeatherFeather's Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread whole wheat zucchini bread to make this and wanted to post it to see what the nutritional values are.

• Total Time: 1 hrs 5 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 50 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 cup whole wheat flour
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 3 eggs (you may use egg substitutes)
• 1/2 cup applesauce
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups fresh zucchini, unpeeled, shredded

Directions:

1. Spray a 10 Cup bundt pan with nonstick spray, make sure you get all the crevises coated.
2. Preheat the oven to 350°F
3. Stir together dry ingredients (first ten items) both types of flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves in a large bowl.
4. Make a well in the center of this mixture.
5. In another bowl, beat eggs until foamy (not too much- just foamy).
6. To the eggs, add wet ingredients (applesauce, buttermilk, and vanilla) and stir (I used a rubber spatula).
7. Add the zucchini to the wet ingredients and stir until well combined.
8. Pour this wet mixture into the "well" you made in the dry mixture. Fold wet and dry ingredients together, just until ingredients are all moistened and gently combined, but don't overmix or you will have tough bread.
9. Pour into the prepared pan and bake for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick tests clean.
10. Cool bread in pan for about 20 minutes, then remove and devour.

Reviews

[smellyvegetarian]

We really liked this, and our new neighbors (for whom we made it) agreed :). I used whole eggs and powdered buttermilk. I also cut down the sugar b/c we don't tend to like things as sweet as others--3/4 c of raw sugar was fine for us. I also pressed some chocolate chips into the bottom when this came out of the oven (so they would melt in) and next time I plan to put them in the pan before I add the batter so they will be like a topping. The only reason I'm not giving this 5 stars is that I think it needs a little something else for texture, either chocolate chips or nuts. Thanks for a yummy recipe, though--it is absolutely a great way to get a chocolate fix and feel virtuous about eating veggies at the same time. It also tastes pretty good with red wine :). Thanks for posting!

[Chef #828892]

Note: this batter turned out very thick. Texture is very nice, tasty, moist and cake-like. I made it in a bundt pan, but think it could pass for chocolate cake if made in cake pans (with shorter baking time). I used milk soured with vinegar in place of the buttermilk -- it might come out even more tender if buttermilk is used. I plan to try it. For a cake or quick bread, it has pretty good nutritional numbers, esp. fat content. I used Penzey's Dutch Process Cocoa, Double Vanilla, nutmeg and Vietnamese cinnamon. I think the good quality cocoa flavor really comes through, so I'd hesitate to use a lesser one.

[LUVMY2BOYS]

This is a wonderful way to use up zucchini!! I used 1/2 sugar & 1/2 Splenda, and just used 1 tsp cinnamon (skipped all the other spices!). I used 2 medium sized loaf pans & baked for 40 min at 350. Remember to squeeze the moisture out of the zucchini b/f measuring it, and then adding it to the batter. I gave the loaves away, but they looked & smelled delicious! Thanks for sharing