Zucchini Walnut Spiced Bread Recipes

ZUCCHINI WALNUT BREAD

Steps:

• Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, and baking powder.
• In a large bowl, beat the eggs. Gradually beat in sugar, then oil. Add flour mixture alternately with zucchini into the egg mixture. Stir in the raisins, walnuts, and vanilla. Pour batter into two 9 x 5 inch greased and lightly floured loaf pans.
• Bake on lowest rack of the oven at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 55 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes in the pan, then turn out onto racks to cool completely. To freeze, wrap loaves in plastic wrap, and then wrap in heavy freezer paper. Will keep indefinitely.

ZUCCHINI SPICE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a 9-by-5-by-3-inch loaf pan with cooking spray, and set aside. Grate zucchini on the large holes of a box grater (to yield 1 3/4 cups); set aside. In a large bowl, whisk together sugars, oil, vanilla, and eggs.
• Into a small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, and salt. Add flour mixture to egg mixture, and stir to combine well. Stir in grated zucchini.
• Pour batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center of loaf comes out clean, 45 to 55 minutes. Cool in pan 10 minutes; invert onto a wire rack, then reinvert, top side up. Cool completely before slicing.

MOM'S ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Grease and flour two 8 x 4 inch pans. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Sift flour, salt, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon together in a bowl.
• Beat eggs, oil, vanilla, and sugar together in a large bowl. Add sifted ingredients to the creamed mixture, and beat well. Stir in zucchini and nuts until well combined. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake for 40 to 60 minutes, or until tester inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes. Remove bread from pan, and completely cool.

MOM'S SPICED ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
• Beat sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth; fold in zucchini. Stir flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, baking powder, and cloves together in a separate bowl; gradually stir into sugar mixture until batter is mixed. Fold walnuts and raisins into the batter; pour into the prepared loaf pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, about 50 minutes.

SPICED ZUCCHINI WALNUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter and flour two 8x4x2 1/2-inch metal loaf pans. Whisk flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, allspice, and baking powder in medium bowl to blend. Whisk sugar, vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla, and lemon peel in large bowl to blend. Whisk in flour mixture. Mix in zucchini and walnuts. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake breads until tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 1 hour 15 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes. Turn breads out onto rack and cool completely. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap in foil and store at room temperature.)

SWEET ZUCCHINI WALNUT BREAD

Steps:

• Blend oil and sugar.
• Add eggs and zucchini.
• Sift dry ingredients together and add to the sugar mixture.
• Add nuts and vanilla.
• Bake in 2 loaf pans at 300 degrees for 1 hour.

DATE-NUT-ZUCCHINI SPICE BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• Line a colander with several layers of paper towels. Place zucchini on top and cover with several more layers of paper towels. Add weight and set aside at least 15 minutes, pressing occasionally to remove moisture.
• In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar baking soda, spices, dates (see note at the bottom), and walnuts.
• Add zucchini and toss to coat.
• In a separate container, mix the molasses with the oil and the eggs.
• Create a well in the dry ingredients and add wet ingredients.
• Stir with a wooden spoon until uniformly combined.
• Pour into a loaf pan (approx. 9x5x3) and bake 50-55 minutes.
• NOTE: When chopping dates, I usually add a spoonful of the dry ingredients and toss to coat. This prevents the date pieces from sticking together.

ZUCCHINI WALNUT SPICED BREAD

Steps:

• preheat oven to 325.
• butter and flour 2 8" loaf pans.
• whisk the first 6 ingredients in a bowl.
• in another bowl whisk together sugar, oil, eggs, vanilla, zest, blend well.
• add dry ingredients to egg mixture.
• whisk in zucchini and walnuts.
• pour into pans, bake about 1 hour, 15 minutes until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• let cool for 10 minutes then turn out to a rack to cool completely.