Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread #recipe from Molly MacRae

 

Zucchini is versatile and so is this recipe. You can make it as muffins, as one big loaf, or as two smaller loaves (adjusting the baking time accordingly). You can add nuts, substitute butter for all or some of the vegetable oil, leave out the cinnamon, or add other spices—cardamom comes to mind. It took a long time to bake but the day was cool and the smells coming from the oven were delectable.

 

Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Ingredients

1 ½ cups sugar

1/2 cup brown sugar, packed

1 cup vegetable oil

3 large eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon cinnamon

2 cups finely grated zucchini, slightly drained (I pressed it a bit between paper towels)

1 cup chocolate chips

 

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease or spray a large (9”x5”) loaf pan or line it with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, beat together sugars, oil, eggs, and vanilla until thoroughly combined.

In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking soda, and cinnamon.

Gradually add dry ingredients into the sugar mixture and mix until just combined. Fold in zucchini until it’s evenly distributed in the batter. Stir in chocolate chips.

Pour batter into prepared loaf pan, spreading so top is somewhat level.

Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, 60 – 75 minutes.

 

Take time to curl up with a trio of cozies – a drink, a treat, and a good book. May I suggest a bit of armchair travel, too? 

Visit Ocracoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, in the Haunted Shell Shop Mysteries.

 

Or travel to the Scottish Highlands in the Highland Bookshop Mysteries.

Spend time in northeast Tennessee in the Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries, two stand-alone mysteries, and a collection of short stories.

Or travel from Cape Cod on the east coast to Monterey on the west coast, with a stop in Ohio along the way in my very gentle mysteries written as Margaret Welch.

Happy reading! 

The Boston Globe says Molly MacRae writes “murder with a dose of drollery.” She’s the author of the award-winning, national bestselling Haunted Yarn Shop Mysteries and the Highland Bookshop Mysteries. As Margaret Welch, she writes books for Annie’s Fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine and she’s a winner of the Sherwood Anderson Award for Short Fiction. Visit Molly on Facebook and Pinterest and connect with her on Instagram or Bluesky.