around 20-22 min. Chocolate chips optional, but likely good too. Pour into prepared loaf pan and smooth the top. I so appreciate not having to wash extra dishes or drag out heavy equipment. And it was perfect. Thank you for providing delicious, one-bowl recipes! I made it too, but will make this next time. This looks amazing. Diana (marians daughter :)). SUPER easy, all in one bowl and tastes amazing. Place in the fridge for 5 minutes so that it thickens up. It is a scootch sweet for my taste as a breakfast bread, but with a little whipped cream it is the perfect dessert. If I were to make these loaves in muffin form, I might sprinkle the sugar on just the few I know wed eat the next day. I am 2 years late to this party but this bread is absolutely amazing, I skipped the extra sugar for the top but I dont like my sweets too sweet. This will be my go to zucchini bread recipe for now in, I made these as muffins and they were amazing! Costata Romanesco summer squash (https://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/squash/summer-squash/costata-romanesco-squash-seed-2053.html) is so nutty and firm and bar-b-ques and cooks up so well. However, I did have to resort to using a whisk in place of a fork at the end; I needed something to break up the brown sugar lumps that the fork couldnt manage, but a few pesky zucchini strands did get sacrificed to the whisk crevices. In a separate bowl combine the oil, sugars, eggs and vanilla. The big change I made was to wisk all the dry ingredients together before adding to wet ingredients. Sugar crust on top is a plus. I love so many of your recipes, but this is not one of them. I Debs pumpkin bread recipe, that makes one large, lidded loaf! Check in the middle but also check again near the top. I dont have any raw sugar, do you think sanding sugar would work? Either/or. It was equally delicious last night (2 hours after baking) as it is today. Toasted some in a pan this morning, shmeared it with moscarpone and am now in heaven. You will not regret it. This was deliciousI added 1/4 cup cocoathen realized I forgot to adjust the flour amount but it turned out well and not too sweet, the way I like it. Recommendations on brand? I may even experiment adding a little less of each sugar to the batter because I really love the crust the coarse sugar makes on top and i add extra to mine. I cooked mine in a ceramic loaf pan it it took a much longer time. Fingers crossed! Delicious cake. I wrap my bread tightly with plastic wrap, then freeze it.I remove it from the freezer then wrap it tightly in foil, back in the freezer. You can do the water test: See if it holds 6 liquid cups. I have made this so many times this summer with our zucchini crop. Best . You can make muffins this way but Ive found it has a better texture when you use a loaf pan. I was in the same situation: I made a loaf and NO WAY could I let it sit. Your future self will thank you. I heard larger zukes contain a lot more water, so I didnt want to ruin what sounds like a great recipe! In large bowl whisk together eggs, oil, maple syrup and vanilla extract. Just made three loaves from one giant zucchini..they look amazing, smell amazing and will soon find out how amazing they taste!! Heat your oven to 350F. It was not very sweet and still moist, which I really liked. Optional solution: slicing off the top for me to eat. I am now going to try to make a vegan version using flax eggs rather than regular eggs. Absolutely it will work well. I did use a mix of pastry flour and bread flour (about 60-40) rather than AP as it is what I had around when I decided to make this at 9pm. I dont usually post comments here, but I feel like I have to come back and say how amazing this zucchini bread is! Still dont know why it didnt work. WOWZAWOWEEEE! We have an excellent local yogurt company which has lemon curd Greek yogurt and Id like to sub some of this in, but dont want to wreck it. Going forward, I will make 2 loaves at a time! Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease mini muffin pan or use liners (I use softened butter on a paper towel). Baked this using the butter and it is exquisite. I have also tweaked it to make chocolate (replace 60g of the flour with cocoa, increase total sugar to about 1-1/2 cups) and lemon varieties (all granulated sugar, add zest of two lemons, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, and 1/2 teaspoon of lemon extract). In a 5.75 x 3 in. Have just converted my entire family to zucchini breadthe same family that swore they wouldnt like zucchini bread or anything with spices! Classic Smitten Kitchen!! This is a great recipe. I admit, I usually sneak a piece from the end. Super easy to throw together, held up well for days, and gave me a new creative way to use up my MILs extra yellow squash from her garden. My Cuisinart makes larger, thicker shreds (well, sometimes) so the cups might end up lighter otherwise. They needed about 30 mins in the oven and came out great. So the second time I replaced all of the AP flour with 240g of whole wheat. My 2 teens returned today from 4 weeks away at camp and I wanted to have something baked and delicious ready for them at home. So so delicious!! (Except of course if you are subbing for allergies;). Im at 5280 in Denver and definitely want to give it a try, but dont want to mess it up! Makes 2 loaves. When a recipe asks for packed brown sugar how hard are we to be packing? This was the perfect solution for the giant overgrown garden zucchini! My fridge has been freezing some of my fresh vegetables lately (ugh! The perfect simple and easy zucchini bread. I made a lemon-zucchini bread last weekend and it looked beautiful coming out of the oven but totally flattened when I accidentally left it in the pan instead of cooling on a rack and ended up unpleasantly dense. Thank you. Both yesterdays and todays maintained a nice crunchy exterior but perfectly moist insides. You can taste the butter, vanilla and spices and the top crunched up perfectly. I made this two days ago with half grated yellow zucchini and half grated apple, since Im awash in both these days. tender muffins loaded with chocolate! I made this as is (with unsalted butter as my oil) and added three quarters of a cup of dark chocolate chips. I loved the sugar topping the next day, but it didnt take more than another day or two before the topping absorbed moisture from the loaf and lost its crunch. Perfect with coffee, and my toddler was a big fan as well! I also made it for a gluten-free friend, using the King Arthur one-to-one mix and olive oilshe absolutely loved it, and thought it didnt taste like gluten-free. Definitely a win-win both the day of and the next! Ill use that one next time. I subbed half whole wheat for the ap flour, to delude myself into thinking its better for me and I had no issues. Thank you for everything you do!! Also the tips on storage were great and helped keep the bread moist but the top crunchy. And the end product was not red. This means these ingredients each form a quarter of the batter, hence the French name, four-quarters. These are fabulous with unsweetened applesauce instead of oil and made into 12 muffins! Made this last nighttook it to work todayits gone! Being that it is a 105 degrees in Northern California, I couldnt bear to turn on my oven so I used my much under-utilized air fryer on the bake settingout on the porch. Its torture Deb please respond! It took 35 minutes at 350. Yes for a recipe with a legitimate amount of zucchini in it. I used all olive oil. My husband loves a slice as a quick pick-me-up before going for a morning run, and my office-mates devoured a loaf in short order. It was good but not the crazy deliciousness it developed the next day (and got better each day afterwards). It turned out perfectly with very few dishes and the babe stayed asleep until it was well into baking time. DELICIOUS! Im gonna look for that ground cloves and cocoa recipe! Thank you for finally bringing zucchini into my quick bread rotation!!! For zucchini bread, banana bread etc. I made it a couple days ahead and shared with the group I was camping with. But since I read this comment and have a giant zucchini to use up, I am adding this to my shopping list! I see the other zucchini bread recipe on this site calls for walnuts. Add flour mixture to the sugar mixture; stir just until combined (do not over-mix). I didnt get the rise you did, so not pretty picture for youbut damn it was (note the past tense) so good! Im wondering if theres a way to adjust the recipe to add the blueberries and still have it fit in one pan? Instructions. Thanks, Deb! This is the best zucchini bread recipe ever, Ive made it many times this summer since my garden is producing massive amounts of fresh zucchini. Hi Deb, I cant wait to make this! I love how you describe the process. I used pearl sugar on top nom, love the crunchy topping. Made this just like the recipe indicated (ok, I accidentally added a wee bit too much nutmeg because I wasnt paying attention, didnt make a difference) and its the best zucchini bread Ive ever made. Been eyeing this since it was posted and finally got around to making it, thanks to a good haul of zucchini from the market. https://smittenkitchen.com/2019/08/ultimate-zucchini-bread/#comment-1599910. No wonder it looks a little short, rather than it usual glorious crowning magnificence! Now that we are entering zucchini season Im hoping to make this zucchini bread for them. This recipe is a keeper! I used the food processor to grate the veg (I somehow have a food processor but not a box grater??). Probably the darker is slightly more moist. I made a double batch of this zucchini bread and both loaves look just like yours. Aloha! It tested done at just over an hour. Lets see how this stands up overnight. Needless to say, it is now the go-to recipe for me. Anyone ever make this with a gluten free flour? Oh I wish I had read this first! Maybe try again and wait until the next day to eat it? I made it with coconut oil and it is delicious. In a separate bowl, whisk together eggs and sugar. I made this because a friend gave me a big zucchini from her garden, followed the recipe exactly and have never gotten so many compliments. The batter exactly filled 6 standard cupcake holes and baking 28 minutes in a convection oven resulted in beautiful rounded and leavened tops. Ate the next day as recommended and the loaf tasted and smelled like raw flour. Butter a 10-by-5-inch loaf pan. Holy Moly! I made it today and my husband and I enjoyed it greatly! So good. My mom always grates it and then freezes it in smaller amount (whatever her recipe calls for) so then she can just take out a bag and defrost. I have so many vegan friends that would love this! Enter your wring-free recipe that was so good and so easy I made it twice in one week. Will try that swap next time on the Zook bread. Instructions. I baked them on Thursday and let them sit at room temperature, uncovered, until I took them to shul on Saturday. Great recipe!! After posting I realized that about a million other people had already asked this question (its hard to see the comments on my phone). I also used white whole wheat flour (thats what I had). Added chocolate chips ( some semisweet and some bittersweet because I didnt have enough of both). i slightly brought down the sugar amounts but barely. I do have a question on this, can you add in any chocolate morsels or nuts or reasons to this recipie? Thank you for sharing it to Facebook, where I re-shared and got a whole cadre of people baking this week! But I will wait for it to cool completely, and will let you all know about sweetness. Grate the zucchini with a box grater and squeeze as much liquid out as you can with your hands. I just made a loaf, still cooling off a bit. I followed the recipe except for I cut both types of sugar in half. They are very oily on the bottom, so much so that the cupcake liners are oily. Then transfer batter to the loaf pan and top with a few more chocolate chips (optional). Proudly powered by WordPress. (in this situation, I was looking for zuchini bread!) What should I have done? This turned out beautifully. Do you think it would be ok to add chocolate chips to the batter? Set aside. But its exceptional the next day or, say, 8 to 12 hours later. OMG!! I had only one small piece left after my book group fell on it. I baked it in an 48 loaf pan, and it took a little bit longer, but it was just a stunning, towering loaf no overflow! Ill try it again but somethings off for me; could be Im still using too much zucchini. How did that happen?! Deb can you comment on zucchini size/a rough number of zucchini to yield the recipe amount? And then, your Ultimate Zucchini Bread. Because of the number of loaves Im making, I didnt leave it in the pan overnight, but its just as tasty with that crunchy top out of the pan. Also your wet mixture looks runnier than mine, which had more the thick batter consistent of your double chocolate banana bread. This recipe is really flexible. Thank you! The crunchy top will not make it until tomorrow. I froze leftover bread from thanksgiving and my son loves it for breakfast he asks for thanksgiving bread all the time. In my mind, batter-free means that there may still be crumbs on the tester but no wet, raw batter and clean means nothing on the tester. I find the larger ones just have more and more water, but maybe an excessively small zucchini wouldnt hit the right amount of moisture for this recipe. I cant stop making this recipe!!! The first time was nirvana and the next four underbaked, even in for 1 hr 20 minutes! Even my Uber picky grandsons loved it, I was nervous they see the zucchini shreds and not eat it. Instructions. Does it freeze OK? Thanks for the recipe! Has anyone substituted in this recipe for a diabetic? 2016 on smittenkitchen.com | 2009-2023 Smitten Kitchen. Of the top five recipes, four out of five did call for blotting or wringing out the zucchini, but I suspect coincidence rather than speaking to the . Do you find that using more zucchini (and not wringing it out) means you also need less oil/butter? I love that its sweet enough but not overly sweet, is so quick to put together without fuss or special equipment you only need 1 bowl, 1 spoon, 1 grater. Quick question which Id like to get expert opinions on. I highly recommend it. At 350, they also took about 65 minutes, so a bit longer. Swapped 60g of almonds for the same weight of flour tasted great! Set aside. My patty pan squash is far more prolific then my zucchini this year. Love your recipes! Use a fork to mix until combined. Agreed! Brilliant, and has transformed the way I bake. I subbed half the flour with some locally milled sonora wheat and it was still so moist. My zucchine bread is in the oven. This is really helpful and I might try this next time. The sugary top is brilliant. But, I agree that olive oil has a heavier flavor. I had 2 10 zucchini on the way to meet their maker in the fridge; they grated down to just under 2 1/4 cups. Leave in pan uncovered? The muffins took 30 minutes to cook through and I added chocolate chips to those. It would then be too big for a single loaf, however. Once everything was mixed and in the bowl, it looked soupy. of my chocolate zucchini bread recipe (which makes 2 squat loaves), I added 1/4 cup cocoa powder and instead of Debs spices did 1/4 tsp each of cinnamon, nutmeg, glove, and cardamom. First time was following the recipe except I only buy and use unsalted butter and didnt add any salt. *I made this with flax eggs because my son has an egg allergy and the loaves still came out perfect. Im actually considering freezing some grated zucchini soon, to be used for bread and/or salads and/or quesadillas. Hi! Theyre baking and almost ready Ill post again when we get the chance to eat them! Wow. It is easily the best (and easiest) zucchini bread I have ever had. Our Costco does not make them after October. Next time I will try cutting the sugar in the batter by 1/4 cup but would never skip the sprinkling of sugar on top. Gently stir in flour, mixing only until flour disappears. Would that change the crumb result? If youre thinking meh, zucchini bread, youre wrong! Long sentence there but I feel my enthusiasm is warranted. pumpkin, almond poppyseed, banana, date, apple, etc but always strayed from zucchini for all of the reasons you describe. I did mix the dry ingredients, its easy to quickly was a flour bowl, and I was nervous about the leavens not getting distributed. Meant to add that i baked it for 55 minutes and checked the internal temp, which was almost 210. Fold in zucchini and optional nuts or chocolate chips. How long would I bake them in a standard muffin tin? Set loaf pan on a cooling rack for 10 minutes. I think this is probably because I weighed the flour for me, Smitten Kitchen recipes (cookbooks and website) consistently have more flour by volume than by weight, and I have checked the calibration on my scale. We **may** have dropped in a couple handfuls of chocolate chips into the batter too. Also, how long would you bake for muffins? Transfer batter to prepared loaf pan. This is a great recipe but it is way too sweet. Good with cheese! Do you think this recipe would translate well into muffins? No? Oh! Six years ago: Banana Nutella and Salted Pistachio Popsicles In a medium bowl combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon and allspice. I suspect that wringing the zucchini too hard may have had something to do with its collapse as well. I have not found the moisture of zucchini bread to be notably compromised by keeping it unwrapped on top, especially not with this recipe. I have a question about testing for doneness. 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