Better Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Take traditional zucchini bread and add some alternative ingredients to create this recipe for "better" chocolate chip zucchini bread.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 60 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins
• Calories: 289 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup white sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 3 cups grated zucchini, or more to taste
• 0.5 cup vegetable oil
• 0.5 cup brown sugar
• 0.5 cup applesauce
• 0.5 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• 0.5 cup ground flax seed

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease two 8x4-inch loaf pans.

Step 2

Whisk flour, flax, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Beat white sugar, vegetable oil, applesauce, brown sugar, eggs, and vanilla extract together in another bowl. Stir flour mixture into egg mixture until batter is well-mixed. Fold zucchini and chocolate chips into batter; pour batter into prepared loaf pans.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until a knife inserted into the center of a loaf comes out clean, about 60 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing loaves from pans.