Chocolate Zucchini Bread
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 3/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 cup sour milk or buttermilk
2 large eggs
2 1/2 cups flour, all-purpose
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon cloves
4 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 cups zucchini shredded
1/4 cup chocolate chips (we used carob chips instead)
Directions
- Cream together butter, oil, sugar, vanilla, sour milk, and eggs.
- Add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and cocoa; mix well.
- Fold in zucchini.
- Put batter into 2 greased and floured loaf pans.
- Sprinkle chocolate chips on top of each loaf before baking.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
Here's a slightly different version using slightly healthier ingredients.
For decadence, if you lived in Eugene, Oregon, you could make it the way my dear friend did who gave me the recipe... and sprinkle some Euphoria chocolate buttons on top. Oh, sometimes I am homesick for Oregon!
Tastes great with Chocolate Caramel Enchantment Chai Tea, given to me by a friend.
Aidan likes to help bake things, and get into pictures, too. : ).
This is a neat idea. I could go on forever once I started but a few that come to mind right away are: fires in the hearth, the smells of cinnamon and coffee, giant conifers, cloudy skies, high school boys home from school for the day, ruby red laptops, cameras, early dusks, football, and voices of a range of kids involved happily in various activities. And chocolate caramel enchantment tea, and friends, even if they are far away.
4 comments:
Looks great. the only problem is that I froze my shredded zucchini in 1.5 cup batches because that's what my Good Housekeeping z. bread recipe calls for...
Looks yummy Willa! Wish I could drop by and have a bite! Give Aidan and Paddy a kiss for me!
Miss you!
Lori
You know, Willa, I've been enjoying your blog lately-- the nice mix of home and learning and deep thinking-- not that I didn't enjoy it before. But post something about chocolate and mention Eugene and Oregon and Euphoria chocolate and you've got my attention! The chocolate zucchini bread looks and sounds great, and I love your friend's idea. (I'm never opposed to chocolate chips *in* this kind of bread, either!)
It looks delicious. Can I come over? :-D
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