No, you do not have to peel zucchini before making zucchini bread. The peel on the outside of the zucchini is a lovely dark green and very tender. I wash the zucchini, cut off the ends, and then grate or zest the entire vegetable. It’s straightforward to do and I love seeing the tiny flecks of green in the bread after it’s baked.
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The Best Ever Zucchini Bread
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cooling Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 60 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 35 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings depending on size 1x
- Category: Appetizers and Snacks
- Method: Easy
Description
Craving something deliciously healthy? Try our Best Ever Zucchini Bread! It’s moist, flavorful, and packed with garden-fresh zucchini. Perfect for a breakfast treat or afternoon snack. Trust us, you won’t regret it!
Ingredients
- 1 c white sugar
- 1 c brown sugar
- 3 eggs
- 1 c apple sauce
- 3 tsp all-natural vanilla extract
- 3 c all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 3 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 c zested or grated zucchini you can add more if you wish
- 1 c finely chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Grease two 8 x 4-inch pans or 6 mini loaf pans.
- Preheat oven to 325F/162C.
- Mix flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, nutmeg, and cinnamon in a bowl.
- Beat eggs, applesauce, vanilla, and sugar in a large bowl.
- Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and beat well.
- Grate or zest the zucchini into small slivers. Stir into the mixture along with the walnuts until well combined.
- Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake for 45 to 60 minutes, or until the tester inserted in the center comes out clean. My mini-loaf pans take about 40-50 minutes. Large-sized loaves take about 55-60 minutes.
- Cool in a pan on a rack for 20 minutes.
- Remove bread from the pan, and completely cool.
Notes
Created, Prepared, tried, and tested by Ashley Havecker from Saving Mealtime and submitted as a guest post.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 339
- Sugar: 35.2 g
- Sodium: 325 mg
- Fat: 8 g
- Carbohydrates: 62.2 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 6.4 g
- Cholesterol: 46.5 mg
Other Zucchini recipes you may enjoy:
- Zucchini meatballs
- Zucchini Brownies
- and last but not least Zucchini Flatbread
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Hi Esme, no worries, I just wanted to reclaim my name — and my gender!!! Male insecurity, tsk!
This looks great, Esme – my teen daughter has been furiously baking during lockdown so will pass this on to her! Claire x
Hi Claire – Oh, I am so happy to see this, hope you all will enjoy it, please let me know what you think, any feedback would be highly apprecited
Great recipe!! I will give this to my friends who will enjoy this!!!
Hi Javier. Thanks for popping in and sharing my recipe with your friends.
Sounds delicious! #SeniSal
Dear Edna. thanks for popping here here and I truly hope you will enjoy this one when you have had the opportunity to try it out. Enjoy
Dear Enda – my apologies for this slip, please forgive me for the mixup
This recipe looks great and easy to follow. Thanks, Esme, for sharing. #senisal
Dear Natalie, I am so happy to continuously see you here at #Senisal and thanks for your comment and support. Yes, here you will only find easy to prepare home made recipes. Hope you have had the opportunity to test one or more from my blog.
Hi Esme, just to clarify, it’s Enda (male) not Edna (female)!
Looks delicious! I am saving this for this summer when we are overrun with zucchini!
Dear Laurie. Thanks friend I hope you will have an opportunity to try it it and will also enjoy it.
This looks great, although I would cut the sugar in half. I always do as I don´t like my baking to be too sweet, especially bread. A great way to use up a plethora of zucchinis
Morning Darlene. Thanks for popping in and your note here. The Irish Twin’s Momma made and share this post with us, and as I have just returned from hospital after my discharge, I have not had the opportunity to test it myself, so as far the less sugar, please let me know how it turned out for you.
Will do. xo