Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 large eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 6 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 cups zucchini, grated
• 2 cups flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 2/3 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 2 teaspoons flour
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°.
• 2 in a large mixing bowl combine eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla, mix well.
• 3 in microwave melt 2 tbsp butter-add cocoa powder, mix well, and cool.
• 4 grate zucchini.
• 5 add zucchini and cocoa powder mix to the bowl, mix well.
• 6 in another bowl add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt.
• 7 blend dry ingredients into the zucchini mix.
• 8 toss chocolate chips with 2 tsp flour (this will prevent them from sinking to the bottom), add to the mixture mix in chopped nuts.
• 9 grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
• 10 pour batter into 2 loaf pans.
• 11 bake 60-70 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• 12 cool on rack for 10 minutes in the pans, remove and cool on rack.