Lion House Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipes

LION HOUSE CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Prepare two 8x4-inch loaf pans by greasing and flouring or by lining with parchment paper.
• Melt unsweetened chocolate and set aside.
• Wash and grate zucchini; set aside.
• Measure flour, salt, soda, baking powder, and cinnamon into a bowl; stir and set aside.
• Place eggs in mixing bowl and beat.
• Add the sugars, oil, melted chocolate, and vanilla; beat until creamy.
• Add the zucchini and stir together. Mix in dry ingredients until incorporated. Add the chocolate chips and mix inches.
• Pour into pans and bake for 45-50.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD II

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans.
• In large bowl, combine flour, cocoa, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder and salt, mix well. In separate bowl, combine sugar and eggs, beat until well blended. Add oil and vanilla; beat until combined. Stir in zucchini. Add flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Stir in nuts and chocolate chips. Spoon evenly into loaf pans.
• Bake in preheated oven for 55 to 60 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove bread from pans; cool completely on wire rack.

BANANA-ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. In a large bowl, whisk flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. In another bowl, whisk eggs, bananas, sugar and oil. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. Fold in zucchini and pecans. Pour into 2 greased 9x5-in. loaf pans. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 45-50 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• In a large mixing bowl combine eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla, mix well.
• In microwave melt 2 tbsp butter-add cocoa powder, mix well, and cool.
• Grate zucchini.
• Add zucchini and cocoa powder mix to the bowl, mix well.
• In another bowl add flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt.
• Blend dry ingredients into the zucchini mix.
• Toss chocolate chips with 2 tsp flour (this will prevent them from sinking to the bottom), add to the mixture mix in chopped nuts.
• Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
• Pour batter into 2 loaf pans.
• Bake 60-70 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on rack for 10 minutes in the pans, remove and cool on rack.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, oil, sugar and vanilla.
• Stir in zucchini.
• Combine dry ingredients; add to zucchini mixture and mix well.
• Pour into two greased 8x4x3-inch loaf pans.
• Bake at 350°F for 1 hour or until bread tests done. Makes 2 loaves.

DOUBLE CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°.
• Butter and flour 2 loaf pans.
• Whisk the flour with the cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves in a medium size bowl.
• Beat butter and sugar in a medium bowl with a mixer on med high until light and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
• While you're mixing, drizzle in the oil, then the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• Stir the vanilla into the buttermilk.
• Mix the flour mixture into the butter mixture in 3 additions, alternating with the buttermilk, beginning and ending with the flour.
• (Like this--flour, buttermilk, flour, buttermilk, flour) Scrape the sides of the bowl when needed.
• Fold in the zucchini and chocolate.
• Divide batter into the 2 pans.
• Bake until tester comes out clean, about 55 minutes.
• (be careful, the tester may look chocolatey from the chocolate in the bread--don't overbake) Cool in pans on rack before removing and slicing.