Blue Ribbon Zucchini Bread Recipes

ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
• 2. Sift flour. Mix flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
• 3. In a large bowl, beat eggs, sugars, canola oil, and vanilla.
• 4. Stir sifted ingredients into egg mixture.
• 5. Blend in zucchini and nuts.
• 6. Pour into loaf pans.
• 7. Bake at 325 for 60-70 minutes or until toothpick in center comes out clean.

DEE'S BLUE RIBBON ZUCCHINI CAKE/BREAD

Steps:

• Slice, seed and coarsely grate 2 to 4 large zucchini.
• Place about a handful or two of the grated zucchini into cheesecloth, or a clean cotton dish towel (do not use a terry cloth dish towel), and squeeze it until very dry; repeat with the remaining grated zucchini.
• Measure out 2 well packed cups of the prepared zucchini for the recipe.
• Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan (or two 8x4-inch loaf pans).
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs until light.
• Gradually add sugar, and continue beating until thick and lemon colored.
• Continue beating egg/sugar mixture, while adding the oil in a thin stream, beat until all is well blended.
• By hand, stir in vanilla, zucchini, nuts and raisins.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients, and stir until well mixed.
• Pour batter into prepared pan(s).
• Bake at 350°F for 60 to 75 minutes or until a cake tester (or wooden toothpick) inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place pan(s) on wire rack to cool.
• Let cool in the pan(s) for about 5 minutes, remove cake from pan(s) and return the cake to the wire rack to continue cooling.
• Cake should be completely cooled before slicing.

BLUE RIBBON ZUCCHINI CARROT RAISIN BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2. In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• 3. In small bowl, combine eggs, oil and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients and mix. (Batter will be stiff until you mix in zucchini.)
• 4. Stir in zucchini, carrots, raisins and nuts. As you continue to mix, it will become the proper consistency as the zucchini lets go of its moisture.
• 5. Pour batter evenly into 2 well-greased 8½x4 inch loaf pans.
• 6. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a knife inserted comes out nearly clean. Cool 10-15 minutes before removing from pan. Cool on wire racks.
• 7. Makes 2 loaves.

LEMON BLUEBERRY ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350° and lightly grease 2 loaf pans. In a large bowl beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar. (I did this by hand),
• 2. Fold in the zucchini.
• 3. Beat in the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon (did one cup at a time and then added the salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon to the last cup of flour).
• 4. Gently fold in the blueberries and zest.
• 5. Transfer the batter to your loaf pans.
• 6. Bake for about an hour and ten minutes.
• 7. The time may vary depending on your oven. Just check it and if a knife inserted in the center comes out clean it's done.
• 8. Cool in the pan for 25 minutes on a rack.
• 9. Then remove from pans and finish cooling on the rack.

BLUEBERRY ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• 1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease 2 loaf pans.
• 2. In a large bowl, beat together the eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar.
• 3. Fold in the zucchini.
• 4. Beat in the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
• 5. Gently fold in the blueberries.
• 6. Transfer to loaf pans.
• 7. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes in the preheated oven, or until a knife inserted in the center of a loaf comes out clean. Begin checking at 1 hour.
• 8. Cool 20 minutes in pans, then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.