Mom's Spiced Zucchini Bread

Mom's zucchini bread, nicely spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg, is a perfect way to start the day. They also make great food gifts.

• Preparation Time: 20 mins
• Cooking Time: 50 mins
• Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins
• Calories: 361 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups white sugar
• 3 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 2 cups shredded zucchini
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, or more to taste
• 0.5 cup chopped walnuts
• 0.5 cup raisins
• 0.25 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.25 teaspoon ground cloves

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.

Step 2

Beat sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth; fold in zucchini. Stir flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, baking powder, and cloves together in a separate bowl; gradually stir into sugar mixture until batter is mixed. Fold walnuts and raisins into the batter; pour into the prepared loaf pans.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, about 50 minutes.