I had a request from a follower on my Facebook who was looking for a chocolate zucchini loaf. I will admit, I am not a zucchini fan because…well my relationship with veggies is not very good! 😉 I have been told though that you can’t even taste the zucchini and I though ok, I am up for the challenge.. It also gave me a reason for a nice long walk to the local farmer’s market to pick up some zucchini. 🙂 Well to my surprise I loved this loaf, it is easy to make and yields 10 generous pieces at 5 smart points each.
Chocolate chip zucchini loaf
5sp or 3pp/serving
Ingredients
- 1 egg + 1 egg white
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup unsweetened apple sauce
- 2 Tbsp melted light margarine
- 1 cup zucchini, peeled and grated (about 1 zucchini)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 1/3 cup flour
- 3 Tbsp mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F, spray a regular sized loaf pan and set aside.
- In a bowl, using an electric mixer beat together your egg, egg white, sugar, margarine and apple sauce.
- Stir in your zucchini and vanilla, then mix in your flour, baking soda & powder and cinnamon. Fold in your chocolate chips.
- Fill your loaf pan and bake in oven for 30-35 minutes. Let cool and cut into 10 pieces. Best kept in the fridge in a sealed container. Nutritional info, per slice (not incl zucchini) - Calories-120, Fat-2.4g Saturated fat 1.1g, Carbs-22.2g, Fiber-0.7g, Sugars 8.2g Protein-2.3g
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Seriously….every single recipe I have tried from you has been AMAZING! This was delish and hit my morning craving for a giant chocolate chip muffin.
Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it Angela 🙂
Hi angela. im making this yummy recipe today, can i add bananas to the recipe?
Hi, I would say give it a go sure 🙂 enjoy..
Kate
Hi Kate,
I was wondering if you think I could make this into muffins instead of a loaf?
Thanks!!
Hi Becky.. sure I don’t see why not 🙂 If you make 10 they will be 3pp each and should be decent sized muffins
Hi Kate. I made this and subbed 1/3 cup of the flour for cacao powder. It’s double chocolate now! Yum. Can’t wait to try it. Just came out of the oven and looks great!
That sounds awesome Marni, please let me know how it was 🙂
Is there something I could use instead of light margarine? I just don’t want to buy it only for this recipe.
you can use butter, it will increase the points of the whole recipe but likely not each serving.
Just curious why you peel the zucchini, do you prefer it that way. I habe always grated my zucchini for bread peel and all.
Hi Teresa, no particular reason, just prefer it, if you like it unpeeled I am sure it will be fine 🙂
This loaf is the best! If you’re wondering if you should make it…the answer is YES!
It’s best warmed up a little.
Thank you so much for the feedback Kristine, so glad you enjoy it 🙂
I made muffins with this recipe (I needed the portion control) and they were delicious! I love your recipes!!
Hi Susie, glad you enjoy them, I recently made a new zucchini chocolate chip muffin recipe you might want to check out 🙂
Thank you so much for being amazing. Today I really wanted my mother in laws raisin coconut zucchini bread so I went to your website to see if I could adjust one of your to make it work and this recipe was perfect. The same idea just switched the chocolate chips with raisins and coconut. Thanks again. You rock!!!!
Hi Janelle, um that sounds amazing adding the raisins and coconut I will have to try it 🙂 thank you so much for your kind words!
Can it be made with whole wheat flour?
Hi Karen, I never bake with whole wheat flour so I can’t give you an honest answer but I don’t see why not