Well, if it’s my house you forget about it for almost two weeks then panic because you don’t want to waste any of it and have to throw it in the garbage.
Sound familiar?
So, yesterday I did a little baking.
First I whipped up a double batch of Zucchini-Chocolate Chip Muffins adapted from the recipe found here:
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup white sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup coconut oil
1/4 cup milk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup shredded zucchini
1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease 12 muffin cups, or line with paper muffin liners.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt in a bowl. Mix egg, oil, milk, lemon juice, and vanilla extract in another bowl; stir into dry ingredients until just moistened. Fold in zucchini, chocolate chips, and walnuts. Fill prepared muffin cups 2/3 full.
Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes.
Then because we still have a ton of zucchini left. I Whipped up a loaf of double chocolate zucchini bread
adapted from this website.
Ingredients
2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup egg whites
1/2 cup applesauce, unsweetened
1/2 cup coconut oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 teaspoons chocolate liquid stevia or vanilla will work
1 ripe banana, mashed
2-1/2 cups white whole wheat flour
1/2 cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup chocolate chips
Directions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Place your grated zucchini in a food processor and process until mashed and smooth. (Oops! Chose not to do this step)
Pour the zucchini in a bowl and combine the rest of the wet ingredients with the zucchini. Add the mashed banana and stir well. In another bowl stir together all the dry ingredients. Combine the wet with the dry and then add the chocolate chips. Spray a loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray. Pour the batter into the loaf pan and bake for 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a toothpick in center comes out clean. Let cool for 10 minutes then using a butter knife loosen the edges of the bread. Carefully flip the bread out of the loaf pan and onto a serving plate.
Makes 10 nice slice servings.
After all that baking I had hopped we would have used almost all of it but we still have a rather large chunk of zucchini.
I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do with all if it.
Perhaps a zucchini apple loaf or more muffins?
I’m stumped.
what would you do if you had this much zucchini left?
What’s your favorite zucchini recipe?
Do you use it in your baking?
Great! I’ll make this muffins as soon as I can!
I totally want those for breakfast now! Oh my yummy. Must try!
I am making these tomorrow. We have so much zucchini – this is a great way to use it up.
I have zucchini coming out of my ears! Thanks for a great idea!
You can shred zucchini then freeze for use in recipes later. It gets mushy so its not great to eat plain after its been frozen, but it works for muffins and breads! This looks yummy!
Great Recipe and what an interesting way to combine Zucchini with a baked treat. Love it!
I do not eat zucchini in my normal course of events. I do like to make and zucchini bread and muffins for my family and it is always a hit.
We never used to eat much zucchini either but with very generous neighbours you learn to improvise. We love grilled zucchini and have found it very tasty in muffins.
That is a great combination. Looks really good.
I was hoping to make a batch this morning until I found all of my chocolate chips dumped in the bottom of our wicker basket. 🙁
Wow, this looks tasty and moist. I wonder if my mouth will tell me more than what I read here. Cant wait to try this at home with some tweaks of my own.
That’s a great way to use the zucchini. Chocolate Chips and Zucchini just go together good, don’t they? 🙂
Oooh this would be fun to test out. I’m new to using zucchini in dessert recipes but I think I could get into it!
This is one of our favourite recipes to use zucchini in. The kids couldn’t even tell we had added our zucchini and they helped make it!
What a great way to use up zucchini from the garden. These sound great!
These sounds like great healthy recipes! What a great way to get my kids to eat veggies!
It’s so great when you can sneak healthy ingredients into yummy foods for kids! It would make me rationalize being able to eat many muffins!
Love them! We have so many zucchinis from our garden and from our CSA. I love making muffins.
Yum, this sounds great! I love adding Zucchini to things I make. My kids don’t eat it otherwise, so I like making cookies, muffins and brownies with a little zucchini added!
We are lucky enough to grow loads of zucchini in our garden. Therefore, we eat zucchini everything! lol My favorite easy way to consume it is to simply sautee it with a little olive oil and garlic. Absolutely tasty!
Well those sound all kinds of awesome! I am totally making these within the next week.
Whoa! I love Chocolate Chip anything .. sooo I would definitely like to try these. Would you believe I’ve never had Zucchini?
I am a sucker for chocolate chip muffins! The fact that these are made with zucchini means I can have more than one, right?!