Friday, August 31, 2007

This Week's Recipe - Zucchini Bread

This is one of my most favorite recipes and most requested. Since home gardens growing zucchini should be flooding with the lovely green squashes (like my parents who accidentally planed more zucchini than they thought - though it was yellow squash). It's a great recipe for the beginning of fall. I like to shred up the zucchini and freeze it so I can make a fresh loaf in the middle of a snow storm. MMMM...... so yummy with Constant Comment Tea!
Zucchini Bread
Makes 2 Loaves

3 eggs
2.c sugar
1c. oil
2 tsp. vanilla
2c. grated zucchini squash
(or 1c. Zucchini and 1c. carrots)

3c. flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp baking powder
¼ tsp cloves
¼ tsp nutmeg
Add nuts or chocolate chips if you’d like

In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and fluffy, add sugar oil and vanilla. Mix well. In another bowl, mix flour, soda, salt, cinnamon, baking powder, cloves and nutmeg. Mix well with wire whisk. Alternately add flour mixture and zucchini. Stir in nuts or chocolate chips if using. Pour into 2 floured baking pans and bake at 325ْ for about 1 hour. (Pumpkin, Carrots, or Applesauce maybe be substituted for zucchini)

1 comment:

Beth Lisa Goss, Wire Tree said...

Everyone in my house LOVES zucchini bread! I just made two loaves this week.