Chocolate Zucchini Bread

This is the only way I can get my spouse to eat zucchini!

• Ready In: 1 hr 25 mins
• Yields: 2 loaves

Ingredients

• 3  large eggs
• 2  cups sugar
• 1  cup  vegetable oil
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2  tablespoons butter
• 6  tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2  cups zucchini, grated
• 2  cups flour
• 1  teaspoon baking soda
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2⁄3 cup  semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2  teaspoons flour
• 1  cup  chopped walnuts

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla, mix well.
3. In microwave melt 2 tbsp butter-add cocoa powder, mix well, and cool.
4. Grate zucchini.
5. Add zucchini and cocoa powder mix to the bowl, mix well.
6. In another bowl add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt.
7. Blend dry ingredients into the zucchini mix.
8. Toss chocolate chips with 2 tsp flour (this will prevent them from sinking to the bottom), add to the mixture mix in chopped nuts.
9. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
10. Pour batter into 2 loaf pans.
11. Bake 60-70 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
12. Cool on rack for 10 minutes in the pans, remove and cool on rack.