Chocolate Zucchini Bread.

I had gotten some squash and zucchini from my upstairs neighbors. They had been sitting on my counter for a little over a week and I needed to use them up. We used one of the squashes for a side dish for dinner, but with the zucchini, I made some chocolate zucchini bread. Well technically I made one loaf of bread and twelve cupcakes. The recipe that I used makes two loaves but I only have one bread pan. Anyways you can find the recipe here. I like this website, because the comments are always helpful. People just add what changes they made and how it affects the recipe. So go check it out and read some of the comments. Here is the way I made mine.

Ingredients

• 2 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
• 3 eggs
• 2 cups white su
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• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 2 cups grated zucchini
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Directions.

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease two 9x5 inch loaf pans. In a microwave-safe bowl, microwave chocolate until melted. Stir occasionally until chocolate is smooth.
2. In a large bowl, combine eggs, sugar, oil, grated zucchini, vanilla and chocolate; beat well. Stir in the flour baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Fold in the chocolate chips. Pour batter into prepared loaf pans.
3. Bake in preheated oven for 60 to 70 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of a loaf comes out clean.    

Like some of the comments suggested, I mixed all of the dry ingredients together with the chocolate chips. And slowly added this to the wet ingredients. I baked the cupcakes at 350 for 30 minutes, but that was too long, as mine were a little burnt on the bottom, or as my grandpa says, they had a little black stuff on them. I would suggest 20-25 minutes but check them. I didn't have unsweetened chocolate squares, so I just used three tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa and one tablespoon of butter for one square of chocolate. I also added 1/2 cup of sour cream to make sure the bread was moist. I believe that applesauce would work. These were seriously so delicious. Now go make some! Until next time!