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Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread
This is one of my toddler’s favorite. Not so sweet, just right and healthy. If your toddler does not like so much vegetable (even zucchini), you will make them like it here!
Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Ingredients:
3 1/4 cups whole-wheat flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder (rich in antioxidants)
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 c brown sugar (optional: if you want this sweeter, add 1 to 2 more cups of sugar)
1/2 c honey
1 c vegetable oil
4 eggs, beaten
1/2 c pure orange juice
2 c grated zucchini
1 tsp lemon juice
1 c chopped nuts (walnuts or pecans or slivered almonds)
Toppings (optional):
Powdered sugar or
Maple Syrup, or
Honey
Directions:
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F.
Combine all the dry ingredients in a large bowl (first 7 ingredients). Blend well together the rest of the wet ingredients (honey, oil, beaten eggs, orange juice and zucchini) in another bowl. Pour in wet
ingredients to dry and mix well by hand using a spatula or wooden ladle. Fold in nuts.
Butter or spray with oil 2 standard size loaf pans, and pour in prepared ingredients at equal volume in both pans. Bake up to 1 hour. Test doneness by poking the middle with a toothpick or stick. If it comes out clean, it’s done. Serve warm. If you like it sweeter, top with powdered sugar, or maple syrup, or honey.
Refrigerate leftovers for up to 4 days, or freeze right away for that fresher taste. Heat in microwave oven for 40 seconds to warm.
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Toddler Food Tips:
Train your child to not have ‘sweet tooth’. Don’t give them premixed cakes right from the counter of grocery stores. If you follow recipe, reduce amount of sugar used (I usually reduce it to 50%), using
raw or brown sugar and honey. I used this technique on cookies as well, which our kiddo is so banana with. In effect, I suppose, she bites the sweetest candy but not too crazy about it. She licks lollipops, but leaves a lot behind. She is not so interested at them at all. She grabs one, yes, but won’t eat the whole thing.
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Olah,
That Zucchini Bread sure does look DELIC!!!! Mmmmmm…..
Stopping by from MBClub. I know what it’s like and how disappointing it can be when something goofs up with blogspot….Just a week or so ago Google/Blogspot sold my domain name and I feared my blog was lost permanently in ‘blogland’…thankfully with the help of a friend I was able to retrieve the blog at least but not with my domain name that I paid for; we had to re’get’ my blog by typing in my very old .blogspot URL. After many emails to Google and Blogspot (since Google is the one who owns Blogspot; Blogspot is an application of theirs) and lost of posted discussions I made on one of the Google discussion furums I finally was able to get their attention and give me my blog domain name back…apparently they emailed me and said that I did not pay to annual fee to renew and keep this domain name to which I replied that Google never ONCE sent me any type of Renewal Reminder, e-bill, or other notifications of when it was due…not even on the dashboard of my blogspot blog…(sigh). So go figure several days after all of this I get this email from them telling me that my domain name has expired (duh!) and if I decide to keep it that I would need to pay the annual fee otherwise after 60 days my blog will be deleted (AGH!), so naturally I paid the fee and thankfully got my blog domain back to it’s rightful owner; my blog! YAY!!! So believe me I know how it SUCKS big time to deal with issues from Google/Blogspot because I had my own fear for several days scared that I had lost 3 years worth of memories that I used my blog to keep a journal of our family events and whatnot. So on that note I just wanted to tell you that I’m sorry that you are experiencing problems with your blog too ;( I wish you luck in recovering it if you can but otherwise this blog here with your name looks very nice and inviting too!! Love it!!! Thanks for sharing!!
Blessings,
Sarah
Thanks for the comment Sarah. I am now much happier with this blogsite. Wordpress seems to be more functional. I learned a lesson from your experience too. I am now saving each blog I posted in my hard drive before I post it in my blog site. Glad to have heard from you, and thanks for following my site:)
Blessings to you too.
Hi there!!!
Visiting from MBC! I’m now following your new blog!! Love it!!
Please come visit me!
~Shelley @ http://shelleysswag.blogspot.com/
Looks yummy!
Visiting from MBC! I’m now following your new blog! Love it!
Please come visit me!
~Shelley @ http://shelleysswag.blogspot.com/
YUM!! I wish I had some of this right now.
….stomach is growling as I type
I’d really like to make this. It looks so good. Thank you for sharing!
I’d really like to make this. It looks so good. Thanks for sharing!
thank you for posting this recipe it looks really good and i can’t wait to give it a trye
Yummy, I bookmarked this.
Thank you for this recipe. I found you at Blissfully Domestic’s community.
Wowee!! Doesn’t that look delicious! I will have to try this one for sure! Thank you for sharing this!