Over The Top Zucchini Bread Recipes

MOM'S ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Grease and flour two 8 x 4 inch pans. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Sift flour, salt, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
• Beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar together in a large bowl. Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, and beat well. Stir in zucchini and nuts until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Remove bread from pan, and completely cool.

SUPER MOIST ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Grease 2 8x4-inch loaf pans or 2 12-cup muffin pans.
• Place the zucchini in a strainer and set aside to drain into a bowl or sink.
• Sift the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt together in a large bowl. Create a well in the middle of the flour mixture; combine the applesauce, vanilla, eggs, butter, walnuts, and drained zucchini in the center of the well. Mix until all ingredients are combined into a batter; pour into the loaf pans.
• Bake the loaves in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour for loaves or 25 minutes for muffins. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on a wire rack.

THE ULTIMATE ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F;.
• Grease and flour two 8½-inch loaf pans.
• Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves into a bowl and set aside.
• Combine the zucchini, sugar, eggs, oil, and orange zest in a large bowl and mix by hand until evenly blended.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients to the zucchini mixture; Stir by hand just until the batter is evenly moistened and blended; Fold in the nuts.
• Divide the batter between the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake until the edges are browned and starting to pull away from the pan and the bread springs back when lightly pressed with your fingertip, 50-55 minutes.
• Remove the loaves from the pans and let cool on wire racks before serving.

OLD-FASHIONED ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Beat eggs until fluffy; add oil, sugar, vanilla, and zucchini; mix well.
• Combine dry ingredients and add to wet mixture; mix well.
• Toss nuts and/or raisins in a bit of flour then stir into batter.
• Pour batter into two 9x5" loaf pans that have been sprayed on bottoms only with no-stick cooking spray; bake at 350° for 1 hour or until bread tests (a toothpick inserted near center of loaf comes out clean) done; cool loaves for about 10 minutes in pans then loosen sides of loaves (I do this by running a small plastic knife around the edges) and remove from pans; cool completely before slicing.
• NOTE: I include about 3/4 cup whole wheat flour in the total amount.

OVER-THE-TOP ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease two loaf pans.
• Cream together the zucchini, eggs, oil, milk, cream cheese and brown sugar. Add baking powder, baking soda, salt, 1 T cinnamon and vanilla. Mix well. Add 3 1/2 cups flour and nuts, stir to combine.
• In a separate bowl combine 4 T cinnamon, white sugar and 1 cup flour. Cut in butter to create filling and topping.
• Pour one quarter of batter into loaf pan, sprinkle with 1/4 of cinnamon mixture. Pour one quarter of batter into loaf pan and sprinkle top with 1/4 of cinnamon mixture. Repeat to fill second loaf pan.
• Cook at 350 degrees for 55 minutes.