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Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Recipe from Penzey's Spices. Wonderful use for Zucchini.
AmountDescription
3 Egg
2 cups Sugar
2 cups Flour
1 tsp. Baking Soda
1 cup Oil Vegetable
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
1 1/2 tsp. Cinnamon
2 TB Butter
2/3 Cup Chocolate chips semi-sweet
6 TB Cocoa Powder
2 tsp. Flour
2 Cups Zucchini
1 Cup Nuts Chopped (optional)
Instructions:
     



  1. Preheat oven to 350

  2. In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs, sugar, oil and Vanilla Extract.  Mix until well blended

  3. In a small saucepan, melt 2 TB. butter, add 6 TB. Cocoa powder and belnd together until smooth.  Set aside to cool.

  4. Peel and grate the zucchini.

  5. Add zucchini and cooled cocoa mixture to the large mixing bowl (from step 2) and blend well. 

  6. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda, salt, and Cinnamon.

  7. Add dry ingredients to the batter.  Sitr only enough to blend all the dry ingredients.

  8. In another small bowl, coat the chocolate chips with 2 tsp. flour.  This helps prevent them from sinking to the bottom of the pan.

  9. Add the flour-coated chocolate chips to the batter.

  10. Spoon the batter into two generously greased and floured 9x5x3 loaf pans.

  11. Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

  12. Cool in the pans for 5-10 minutes.

  13. Remove from pans and continue to cool on a wire rack.


Yields Two Loaves.
Originally from: Bob's Kitchen
Prep Time:
(In Minutes)		 30

14 Ingredients retrieved.
Created by:  bob, on:  9/2/2008 11:51:15 AM; Last Updated on:   9/2/2008 12:15:56 PM, by:   bob