Better Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

Traditional zucchini bread using some healthy alternatives but still moist and delicious. If loaves get too dark when cooking, cover the loaf pans with aluminum foil.

• 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
• ½ cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• ½ cup applesauce
• ½ cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
• ½ cup brown sugar
• ½ cup ground flax seed
• 3 cups grated zucchini, or more to taste

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.