Zucchini bread

Our first recipe using some of our garden grown zucchini is some yummy zucchini bread.  We used a Paula Dean recipe.  It was enough to make one large bread (which we took to our small group last night and we left with just an empty plate).  Even the kids at it up... little did they probably know though that it had zucchini in it... all they saw where the chocolate chips.  Besides the large bread, we also had enough to make 5 mini loaves to eat our selves and share with family and friends.

Here's the recipe we used.

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread by Paula Dean  ( but there's not a single pat of butter in it!!!)
3 cups all-purpose four
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
1 tsp baking soda
3 eggs
2 cups white sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
2 cups grated zucchini
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup semisweet chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F, grease 2 9x5" loaf pans
Sift together four, baking powder, salt, spices, and baking soda
In a large bowl, beat eggs until light and fluffy. Add sugar and continue beating until well blended.
Stir in oil, vanilla, zucchini, pecans, chocolate chips.
Stir in sifted ingredients.
Pour into loaf pans.
Bake for 50 minutes.  Mini loaf pans for 25 minutes.  Check with toothpick.. comes out clean.. its ready.

Get dirty and keep on gardening!