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Healthy Zucchini Bread

Healthy Zucchini Bread Ultra moist and tender, my recipe for Healthy Zucchini Bread is wholesome, simple, and sweet. Each luscious loaf makes a wonderful breakfast, snack, or dessert.
 Healthy Zucchini Bread Well helloooooooooooo gorgeously green zucchini bread. Isn’t she just a thing of beauty?! See those glistening mini chocolate chips? And that tender crumb?! Each hearty yet delicate slice just begging for a little smear of butter or cream cheese. ♡♡♡♡♡ <——– These… these are the things I live for. 

Healthy Zucchini Bread Healthy Zucchini Bread I mentioned last week this Spring I would be focusing on sharing recipes with you that are quick, easy, and perfect for Summertime living. To me zucchini bread is the epitome of Summer baking. It’s a delicious, travel friendly snack almost everyone loves. Even my picky “veggie hating” nephews beg for this bread! To me, watching them pass on prepacked ice cream bars to scarf down slice after slice of GREEN bread is all the evidence I need 😉

Healthy Zucchini Bread The best part? This bread right here is totes healthy, my friends. Each loaf is packed with fresh zucchini!!!

FACT: Over one whole cup of fresh grated zucchini delivers a delightfully sweet and soft loaf every time.

Healthy Zucchini Bread I like to one-up my loaves by tossing an extra handful or so of grated zucchini right on top of the batter before baking. This helps each loaf emerge from the oven looking vibrantly gorgeous. PRETTY POINTS FOR EVERYONE!

Healthy Zucchini Bread So what makes this bread healthy? Let’s discuss!

1) This bread is made using 100% whole wheat flour. Not an ounce of white flour in the recipe. <—– That said, if you like white flour (better known as all-purpose) go ahead and use it! This recipe will work with all whole wheat, all white, or half and half of each. It’s quite versatile.

2) For the fat in this recipe I chose to ditch the butter and use all-natural coconut oil. It’s healthy and delicious. If you cannot find coconut oil or cannot use it due to allergies, I have successfully used olive oil in this bread, as well as canola and vegetable oils. For health reasons I like to stick to coconut oil or olive oil, but again, do your thing 😉

Healthy Zucchini Bread 3) I have cut the sugar in the recipe waaaaaaaaay back. In fact, there’s only 1/3 cup in the whole loaf! To help compensate our sugar loss, I’ve added maple syrup (the real stuff) and orange juice (the real stuff again, please!). These two ingredients not only add sweetness, but bring a whole new level of flavor awesomeness to this zucchini bread.

4) I added mini-chocolate chips to the recipe, but only to the top! You could double the amount and mix them into the batter as well, or leave them out completely, making the loaf even more travel/diet friendly. To me a 1/4 cup of mini dark chocolate chips is a guilt free way to treat yourself 😉

The hardest part of this entire recipe? The WAITING. The bake time is a solid 40-45 minutes. <— Those are a lot of minutes! I know. The Silver lining? You get to sit back and enjoy the smell of your kitchen as this seriously sweet loaf bakes up in the oven.

Healthy Zucchini Bread This bread will:

  • Have a moist, flavorful, and fluffy interior.
  • Have a crispy, crunchy exterior.
  • Make your home smell better than any scented candle.
  • Make you a believer in the whole “healthy CAN be delicious theory”.
  • Impress you, your family, your friends, and anyone else lucky enough to have a slice.

There’s just no doubt it; you’re just going to love this bread.

Healthy Zucchini Bread Zucchini lover’s, grab your graters and get baking! This is one recipe you want to hold onto – and tightly.

Zucchini lover's, grab your graters and get baking! This is one recipe you want to hold onto - and tightly.

I should get this little disclaimer out of the way now: I am not a doctor/nutritionist/or health fanatic. I don’t count calories, I don’t hate carbs, and I don’t diss sugar. To me, fresh wholesome ingredients and a “less is more attitude” is what it’s all about. <—— Just in case you wanted to know 😉

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Moist and flavorful, this healthy zucchini bread is sure to become a new favorite!

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups whole-wheat flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoons cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/3 cup + 2 tablespoons coconut oil, melted
  • 1/3 cup granulated sugar
  • 3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoon fresh or all-natural orange juice
  • 1/2 Tablespoon vanilla extract
  • 1 1/4 cups grated zucchini
  • 1/4 cups semisweet or dark mini-chocolate chips, optional

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350º(F). Line a 9x5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper; grease the parchment paper with cooking spray; set aside.
  2. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger.
  3. In a separate large bowl, whisk together the eggs, melted coconut oil, sugar, maple syrup, orange juice, and vanilla extract; beat until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients just until combined. Careful not to over mix here - the batter will be very thick. Fold in the grated zucchini.
  4. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, sprinkle the top with chocolate chips (if using) and bake for 40-45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the loaf comes out clean. Remove the loaf from the oven and allow it to cool for 15 minutes in the pans before carefully transferring it to a cooling rack to cool completely. Slice and serve.

Courses Breakfast

Cuisine American

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 slice

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* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.

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  2. Lina Mathison says

    May 19, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    Ashley! I made this right after you posted this morning and OMG. Too good to be true. My picky 2 year old ate 2 slices and asked for more. Your recipes never let me down. Thank you!

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  4. Donna Bailey says

    May 20, 2015 at 8:23 am

    My family love zucchini and we have plenty of them in the garden. Definitely going to try your recipe. Sounds great. Thanks for sharing. Regards,
    End of tenancy cleaners Islington

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  8. Calie says

    May 28, 2015 at 3:19 pm

    It is an awesome breakfast! I will try the best. It looks so delicious and it is suitable for my kids. Thanks. they will love it.

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    • bakerbynature says

      August 13, 2015 at 8:06 pm

      Hi Julie. I’ve never tried this recipe with GF flour so I honestly cannot say. I would think a GF 1-1 flour would work, but cannot say for sure. Please let us know if you try it.

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  14. Denise P. Sowell says

    November 4, 2015 at 2:05 am

    Just admiring your work and wondering how you managed this blog so well. It’s so remarkable that I can’t afford to not go through this valuable information whenever I surf the internet!

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  15. Catherine says

    December 7, 2015 at 4:31 pm

    Oh my God!!! It looks extremely awesome!!! I really love soft bread, chocolate chip, zucchini and especiallyyyy…..maple syrup!!! I have never known that they can be combined together soooooo good like this! Although the baking time is quite long, I think it is worth after all. Thank you very much for sharing your amazing recipe!!!

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  16. Jennifer says

    December 19, 2015 at 7:28 pm

    The zucchini bread looks great! I try this recipe for my kids next weekend. I’m sure they will love it And I feel better as I know it is healthy food. Thanks

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  19. Nora says

    February 2, 2016 at 11:16 am

    I have just read a recipe on how to roast chicken with zucchini. This healthy zucchin bread will serve as a great complement to it. love it! yumm..

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  24. Hannah says

    May 29, 2016 at 7:43 pm

    so my egg mixture did not become light & fluffy… stayed a syrup consistency. Any ideas as to what went wrong?

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  28. gingernut says

    December 29, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    This recipe is delicious! Thank you!
    However, I don’t know how your chocolate chips did not melt (as seen in the pics above?) Mine were melted after baking.

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