Enjoy this Healthy Deliciously Dark Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

This Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread is a chocolate lovers dream. Moist, chocolate bread with chocolate chips inside and on top. Plus it is low fat with added nutrition from the applesauce and zucchini making it a healthy treat as well.

Yes, I admit it.

I may have failed to mention to my picky eater son that this bread had zucchini in it.

And he devoured it. Sometimes a mom has to do what a mom has to do.

But, you are welcome to full disclosure if you so desire.

Ingredients for Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

The ingredients are pretty basic baking ingredients:

• flour
• brown sugar (does delicious things with chocolate)
• cocoa powder
• eggs. or egg substitute
• baking soda, salt, vanilla
• chocolate chips, semi sweet, white or dark, regular, large, mini
• zucchini
• applesauce, in place of oil normally used in zucchini bread

Recipe

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Ingredients

 

• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup packed light brown sugar
• ½ cup Dutch process cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs (room temperature)
• ½ cup apple sauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 ½ cups packed shredded zucchini
• 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips (divided)

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 9-by-5-inch loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. 
• Add the eggs, apple sauce, vanilla extract. Stir until ingredients are wet, do not over mix.  
• Stir in the shredded zucchini and ¾ cup of the chocolate chips until just combined.
• Pour batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining ¼ cup of chocolate chips over the top of the bread. Bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out mostly clean.
• Remove from oven and set on cooling rack and let the bread cool in the pan for 15 minutes. Remove bread from pan and let cool completely before serving.

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