Sweet and Savory Chocolate Zucchini Bread -

Did someone say chocolate zucchini bread? Yes, please!

My neighbor has been so gracious as to bring me freshly grown zucchini’s from her family’s garden a couple of times this month. These are the BIG zucchini’s, not your usual grocery store sized ones. I’ve already made a zucchini bread with lemon glaze, so I wanted to try something different. I let Charli help me mix a lot of the ingredients and we had a great time cooking together! Total prep time was about 15 minutes.

Enjoy this Sweet and Savory Chocolate Zucchini Bread:

Ingredients-

1/2 cup of melted butter (plus more for coating the loaf pan)
1/2 cup of cocoa powder (plus more for coating the loaf pan)
1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp kosher salt
1 cup sugar
1 egg + 1 egg yolk
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups grated zucchini
2/3 cup of chocolate chips
a dash of sea salt to top the bread for garnish

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat loaf pan with butter and then dust it with cocoa powder
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt
In another large bowl, stir together sugar and the egg + egg yolk until smooth. Add melted butter and vanilla extract until smooth. Add the zucchini, then add the flour mixture slowly, stirring it in gradually. Add in the chocolate chips.
Put the batter into the loaf pan and bake for about 50-55 minutes. (Mine took 55 minutes)
Let cool in the pan, then transfer to a cooling rack. Dust on the sea salt and serve