Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Filed Under (Bread, Breakfast) by Indhu on 16-09-2009
Hey all,
How you doing? (To be read in a tone similar to the one used by Joey in Friends). By the way, how many of you have watched Friends again and again and again? I know 99% of the dialogues by now and I am working on getting it upto a 100%. Wish me luck 
I know I have been late in posting this. I really wanted to post this long back - just did not get the time. I joined a swimming class at the gym. So if any of you see a person wearing senthil trousers (I am sorry but I cannot explain that to the non-tamizh audience ) trying haaaaaard to stay afloat, please say a hi and send some prayers my way. I went to the gym today morning to practice and I was doing fine upto a depth of 6 feet. As soon as I realized I was swimming in waters with a depth of more than 6 feet, what did I do? I did the exact opposite of what I was supposed to do. I panicked! Instead of continuing to swim, I completely stopped moving my legs and sank like a bag of potatoes. Drank a lot of water and came back up sputtering and coughing. Not a pretty sight!
On to today’s recipe, I have been seeing a lot of cake and quick bread recipes with zucchini in them. I am sure a lot of you had the same question as me - a vegetable in a cake? I know there are carrot cakes. But somehow, zucchini seems a lttle weird. I finally decided to try one. I wanted to go for a plain zucchini bread. But I chickened out and made a chocolate version hoping it would mask the taste of the zucchini. Maybe I will try a plain version the next time. The basic recipe is from ClosetCooking. I modified it a little bit using the ingredients available in my pantry.
Ingredients
1. All purpose flour - 1 cup
2. Whole wheat flour - 1 1/4 cups
3. Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
4. Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
5. Cocoa powder - 1/4 cup (I used Hersheys unsweetened chocolate powder)
6. Cinnamon - 1 tsp ( I added 2 tsp because I love cinnamon)
7. Grated zucchini - 1.5 cups
8. Brown sugar - 3/4 cup
9. Honey - 1/4 cup
10. Oil - 1/4 cup
11. Vanilla yogurt - 3/4 cup (I used low fat)
12. Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
13. Egg whites - 2 (lightly beaten)
14. Walnuts - 1/2 cup (cut into little pieces)
15. Chocolate chips - 1/2 cup
Recipe
1. Preheat the oven to 350 F
2. Mix the dry ingrdients (1 to 6) together.
3. Mix the wet ingredients (7 to 13) together.
4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients.
5. Fold in the nuts and chocolate chips. You can also omit the chocolate chips but please don’t. Once they melt in the oven, they give such a yummy taste and awesome texture to the bread.
6. Pour the batter into a greased 9X5 inch loaf pan.
7. Let it bake for 45-50 minutes. (I checked mine after 35 minutes and kept an eye on the bread.) Check for doneness and remove the bread from the oven.
8. Let it cool on the pan for 10 minutes.
9. After 10 minutes, remove the bread from the pan and let it cool on the wire rack.
10. Once it is completely cooled, slice and eat or store it in the refrigerator.
This bread is not too sweet. That is the way I like it. But if you want it to be sweeter, increase the sugar or the honey. Entirely upto you.
This bread tasted much better the next day. I read somewhere that whole grain breads taste better when you leave them overnight. Is that true? I popped it in the refrigerator and when I wanted to eat it, I let it sit on the counter for 15-20 minutes and zapped it in the microwave for around 15 seconds. Good to go
Oh dear god…hope you are doing ok now..i had once a tragic accident in my school days after that have stopped swimming
Cake looks lovely!
Hey Indhu,
hope u r fine …take care and stay alert and dont panic dear, am sure these are the teething problems one faces during learning process, u’ll do ok dearie :)dont give up the swimming lessons k?!
That sounds quite adventurous
OMG the bread looks amazing…am droooooling over the neat snaps…yummmmm I love my cake a little less sweater
same pinch on that 
Keep rocking!
TC
atleast you got yourself inside the water..am scared to do even that..zucchini does not seem weird at all..i have seen them being used in lot of bakes…and your looks delicious with the combination of chocolates..
O.o What! You sank in the pool! If I were u, I’d die of fear! Anyway, zucchini isn’t a weird ingredient in baking stuff. That whole wheat chocolate zucchini bread is exquisite and healthy!
I am scared of swimmind. I tried to but never learnt it .. lovely bread there
Wow,looks great.I would love to make a zucchini bread with choc,but by the time I plan something,the zucchini ends up in some other dish or in the garbage bin!.Great looking slices.
BTW,nice to know about Senthil trousers.Atleast you got inside the pool,I would not even do that
.Keep trying and Enjoy cooking ,baking and also swimming 
welcome back after ur break..dint knw u started blogging again.swimming does scare u initially, but once u learn it, u wud love it. where r u learning it? is it in pro club?zucchini in itself is novel, and add to it some chocolate..cool idea.
U should scare the instructor with ur Sendil Trouser huh? When I lived in apt, the community pool instruct said: no trousers allowed only swim suit
Whatever chocolate I am ready for! Super moist bread!
I am seeing the zuke & the chocolate combi.. i want to try this out once.. looks so moist.
I took swim lessons when i was 23:-) didn’t help me, still cannot swim. that you can swim at 6 ft. depth is a lot .. for me:-)
Hi Indhu, I am pretty hopeless in the deep end of the pool too. Petrified is definitely the word for it
I’ve been craving chocolate these past few days like never before!
This chocolate-zucchini cake is so decadent-looking…chocolate love is in the air
Bread looks flavorful and yummy!
Cake is really looking fantastic. Mouthwatering .. :p
Delicious!This is one of my favorite breads.Hope you have gr8 time swimming
That looks tooooo good. i’m drooling here
Many adventures in one post:) Hope you are swimming better by now.Veggie cake looks good.Sure it vanished the same ZAAP! as you made it.
oh god be careful when u go next time dont panic.. Hey the bread is looking really good and moist and chocolaty!!!!!!!!!!!!yumm
Zucchini totally works in breads and tastes awesome, somehow though I never managed to combine zucchini and chocolate, the bread looks simply fantastic !
indhu, i came to check on you..how are you doing? i read your swimming adventure just now. how is it going? i signed up twice and never got rid of the fear. u r still brave girl..i panic when i cross the 5 ft mark
and lol about your senthil trousers 
they don’t allow senthil trousers at Y so i stick to granny’s swimsuit 
Hey! I know most of the dialogues too and esp. love Chandler’s! Remember the chanberry sauce?:)
Great pictures! The bread looks great.
Wish you better luck with your swimming lessons!