I didn’t get a lot of chances to bake while I was in Korea so I was pretty excited to use my kitchen and starting baking again! I love baking breads, its easy and usually turns out unlike all my cookie disasters! Monica mentioned zucchini bread so I thought I would make a batch and see how it turned out! I looked for recipes online and found one that was pretty popular on allrecipes.com (amazing website for all sorts of different recipes!)
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With any recipe I find online, I try to tweak it a bit and make it a bit healthier and customize it to my own taste buds. This recipe was no different and I’ll include the changes I’ve made.
Here is the original recipe:
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/moms-zucchini-bread/
Here are the changes I’ve made to the ingredients:
- A little baking trick for making anything a healthier alternative (I’d rather eat slightly healthier than tough it out at the gym for an extra hour), you can use applesauce to substitute a lot of things. For oil, you can substitute one to one so for this recipe I used 1 cup of apple sauce instead of oil.
- Recipe asked for 3 cups of white flour and I used 1 cup of whole wheat flour instead
- I find recipes tend to be oversweet so I always decrease the sugar amount and for recipe I did 1 and a half cup of sugar
- If you don’t like walnuts you can always substitute it with chocolate chips but remember if you’re using chocolate chips, decrease the sugar because the chips itself are already sweet!
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Here is the grated zucchini….make sure not to drain the water because the bread will need the moisture!
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Here is the batter before the zucchini and walnut goes in.
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In the bread tins they go! I personally love chocolate chips so I just tossed them on the top before baking! Be careful and watch the oven cause everyone is different, some might take longer. The recipe said 40-60 minutes but mine took 60 minutes!
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Here is the finished product!! I like to heat mine up a bit either in the microwave or in the oven if I’m eating it the next day.
For a quick change, you can use the batter and pour into muffin tins instead to bake some muffins!