Chocolate Zucchini Bread

I thought I would add this as well. This is from Shelley's BYUI cookbook.

Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.

Ingredients:
3 Eggs
1 C vegetable Oil
2 C Brown Sugar
1 t Vanilla
2 Unsweetened Chocolate Squares, melted
3 C Zucchini, grated
4 C Flour
1 t Baking Soda
1 t Cinnamon
1/2 C Nuts, chopped (optional)
1 t Salt
1/4 t Baking Powder

Beat 3 eggs. Add oil and sugar. Beat well and add vanilla, chocolate, and zucchini. Mix together and add the remaining ingredients and then place in a greased and floured (again bottom only) baking pan. (My notes say it will make 4 small loaves or one regular size loaf (8.5" x 4.5" x 2.5"). Bake 45 to 60 minutes.

Cool in pan for 10 minutes. Turn out onto a cooling rack.

Zucchini Bread

Here you go Rachel! I knew I would forget to get this on when I got home, but, hey, at least it's only been a couple of days instead of weeks...or months...or years....

Heat oven to 325 degrees.

Ingredients:
3 Eggs
1 C Sugar
1 C Brown Sugar
1 C Vegetable oil (I use Canola)
2 C Zucchini squash (grated)
2 t Vanilla
1 t Salt
1 t Baking Soda
1/4 t Baking Powder
3 t Cinnamon
3 C Flour

Combine sugars, eggs and oil. Beat until well blended.

Add zucchini and vanilla. Mix until blended.

Mix flour baking soda, BP, salt and cinnamon. Add to mixture.

Again this is the chocolate lover speaking...add 1/4 to 1/3 cup of mini chocolate chips. This tastes good if you pour a little batter in first, add a level of chocolate chips, then add the rest of the batter.

Place in two greased and floured loaf pans (greased and floured on the bottom only).

Bake one hour at 325 degrees.

Janell's Honey Wheat Bread

This is a wonderful way to use your Kitchen Aid Mixer. Amber, you will want one after tasting this bread. These directions are for using it in your Mixer.

Add in order to the mixer bowl:

2 1/2 C Warm Milk (I use skim)
2 T Sugar
2 t Salt
1/3 C Oil (I use Canola)
1/3 C Honey
3 C Bread Flour

Mix these ingredients with your paddle until well blended, then change to bread hook and add the rest while kneading with the hook:

3 C Wheat Flour
1/2 C Wheat Flour mixed with 2 T Instant Yeast

Knead with dough hook for about 10 minutes. The dough will come away from the sides of the mixing bowl. Grease another bowl with cooking spray and turn out your dough into the new bowl. Cover the bowl with a warm, wet cloth. If you have a heating pad, put the bowl on it with the setting at Medium High. Let rise for about 25-30 minutes. (The dough will be about double.) If you don't have a heating pad, you can put the bottom of the bowl in warm water for about that length of time (longer if the water cools down too much). Or you can just let it rise on the counter for 1 to 2 hours.

After it has risen, you take the dough and divide it into 2. Take the one half and roll it with a rolling pin into a rectangle about as wide as your loaf pan. Make it flat with all the air bubbles out. Then roll it up (short side), pinching it together as you go. Pinch the sides and place into greased loaf pans, pressing it down. Repeat for the second loaf.

Set them on the heating pad (or which ever way you did it the first time), covered with a warm, wet towel. Let rise until they reach the top of the loaf pan. With the heating pad, it only takes until the oven is warmed up. I turn on the oven to 375 degrees as soon as I've set them back on the heating pad.

Bake for 28 minutes.

When done, baste the tops with butter and turn out onto a cooling rack.

Banana Nut Bread

This is the recipe I grew up with. It was my mother's mother's recipe, so a real family recipe!

Cream:
1 C Sugar
1/2 C Shortening (I use margarine or butter now)

Add 3 Smashed bananas

Mix dry ingredients:
1 t Baking Soda
1 t Salt
2 C Flour

Alternate adding dry mixture and 1/3 C milk to the creamed banana mixture. Then add 1/2 C Crushed Nuts (I usually don't add these, but it is really good with finely crushed walnuts.)

Bake at 350 degrees for about 45 minutes.

Makes 2 bread loaf pans of bread.

*For fun - who doesn't like bananas and chocolate? - I add about 1/3 cup or more of mini semi-sweet chocolate chips.
* This never turns out well when you double the recipe. I used to try to do it and it never turned out and then my mother told me it doesn't work!

Enjoy!