Not Your Mama's Zucchini Bread

As if the honey and orange zest weren’t enough to set this zucchini bread apart from most others it is topped off with a orange cream cheese glaze.

• Ready In: 1 hr 20 mins
• Yields: 1 loaf

Ingredients

• Bread

• 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1  tablespoon orange zest, fresh
• 7  ounces honey
• 2  eggs
• 2  teaspoons vanilla
• 1⁄4 cup  oil
• 1 1⁄4 cups zucchini, grated
• 1⁄2 cup walnuts, chopped

• Glaze

• 1  tablespoon cream cheese
• 1⁄2 cup confectioners' sugar
• 1 1⁄4 teaspoons  orange juice
• 1⁄2 teaspoon orange zest, fresh

Directions

1. Bread:
2. Preheat oven to 350°F.
3. Combine flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and 1 tablespoon orange zest; than mix in honey, eggs, vanilla and oil.
4. Stir in zucchini and walnuts; pour into a greased loaf pan.
5. Bake for one hour or till tooth pick comes out clean.
6. Let cool 10 minutes in pan before turning out.
7. Glaze:
8. In mini mixer beat cream cheese, confection sugar, orange juice and orange zest until well blended and smooth.
9. Drizzle glaze over top of slightly warm bread allowing to run down sides. Allow to finish cooling before slicing.