This Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread is a moist, delicious, better-for-you double chocolate quick bread made with zucchini, non-fat Greek yogurt and canola oil.
I’ve got lots of zucchini in my garden earlier than usual this year because of the warm spring weather we had. My favorite way to eat zucchini is zucchini bread and my daughter requested chocolate zucchini bread.
I decided to reduce the calories in the bread by substituting non-fat Greek yogurt for the sour cream, eliminating one egg, and reducing the sugar and canola oil. You could lighten it up even further if you eliminate the chocolate chips, but I love that extra layer of chocolaty goodness.
King Arthur Flour makes a great Triple Cocoa Blend that I use almost exclusively in my baking. It’s a blend of three cocoas including a black cocoa that gives baked goodies a rich dark color, and the flavor is excellent.
My family gobbled up this tasty bread in record time, and I promised to make it again soon. Next time I’ll add in some dried cherries for my son.
Update: Since I first posted this recipe in 2012, I have made it numerous times and it’s always a hit. Sometimes I make it with Greek yogurt and sometimes with sour cream, just depending on what I have in the fridge. It’s great either way.
Usually I bake it in mini loaf pans so it cooks quicker and it’s easy to share a loaf with a friend.
Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour plus 2 tablespoons more to coat chocolate chips
- ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder sifted
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup sugar
- ⅓ cup canola oil
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup non-fat Greek yogurt or sour cream*
- 3 cups grated zucchini*
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans (I used 4 mini loaf pans) and set aside.
- Combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt in a bowl and whisk to combine. Set aside.
- In large mixing bowl, beat sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla until well blended. Add yogurt and beat to combine. Add dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
- In a small bowl or Ziploc bag, toss chocolate chips with 2 tablespoons flour. Add chocolate chips and zucchini to batter and stir just until blended.
- Divide batter between pans. Bake for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes in pan on a wire rack; remove from pan, and cool completely on a wire rack before cutting.
- (Bake mini loaves for 30 - 35 minutes or muffins for 18 minutes.)
- *Tip: I like to use a salad spinner to spin out excess water in the zucchini. You could also wrap it in towel and squeeze out excess water.
Notes
More zucchini recipes you might like:
Farmers’ Market Tomato and Zucchini Quiche, Barbara Bakes
Zucchini, Bacon and Cheese Fritters, Barbara Bakes
Zucchini Sandwich Cookies, Mountain Mama Cooks
Crust-less Summer Zucchini Pie, Gina’s Skinny Recipes
35 Zucchini Recipes, Two Peas and Their Pod
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Jan
The recipe for Chocolate Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread: in Step. 4, when you mix in zucchini & choc. chips “coated in 2 tablespoons of flour”, does that mean just the chips or both the zucchini AND the chips? I love zucchini bread and this looks SO delicious! Thanks
Barbara Schieving
Thanks Jan! Just the chocolate chips to help keep them from sinking to the bottom of the bread. Enjoy!
karen Haugen
I love this recipe! My loaves came out perfect. It has such a great texture. In addition, I used 3/4 c of chocolate chips and 1 tsp of instant espresso dry coffee. It pumped up the chocolate flavor . Its a no fail recipe. Its a keeper.
Barbara Schieving
Thanks for sharing your changes Karen. So nice to hear you loved it!
Anne
OMG… that looks so delicious!!
I wish I could grab it out of the screen and tast it right away.
I will defiantly try it!
JK
Barbara
I am a bit confused.
Is the recipe as written above the exact amount of measurement to use if I do NOT want to lighten it up?
OR
Are the measurement of the ingredients lightened up?
Example, the 2 eggs in list of ingredients: is that the actual measurement / amount of eggs for original recipe ?
Barbara Schieving
Hi JK – the recipe is written is the lightened up version. Here’s the original version https://www.barbarabakes.com/coconut-chocolate-zucchini-bread/ Enjoy!
sandra
Thank you
Nagi@RecipeTinEats
The zucchini bread turned out so well. You have great texture and it’s perfectly baked! It looks very tempting 😀
Rosa
Great texture and so tempting!
Cheers,
Ropsa