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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Day 30: Zucchini bread and Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins

I'm trying to perfect my Zucchini Bread recipe. I feel like I've mad a Zucchini loaf years ago but its been a while and I had a couple zucchinis that would go bad if I didn't use them in the next couple of days so why not make some zucchini bread??
So as per usual, I went searching in Pintrest for a few recipes to combine and one in particular that interested me was a zucchini bread recipe that had almond extract in it. I love anything almond and it actually reminded me of these Greek Almond cookies that I made a few years ago and I definitely need to revisit that recipe like- asap.
So, I made a Zucchini bread that was pretty close to the original recipe found on Pintrest by Shugary Sweets Cunchy Streusel Zucchini Bread but I also made my own variation to the recipe with the muffins.

Fair warning- this recipe makes one loaf and 9 muffins! It's a big recipe, so if you don't want that much, split the recipe in half

Hope you enjoy!

*Ingredients
3 eggs
1 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup granulated sugar
3 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp almond extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 1/2- 2 TBS ground cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
2 cups shredded zucchini
1- 11/2 cups chopped walnuts
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup bitter sweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup semi sweet chocolate chips

-Streusel Topping
1/4 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup quick oats
1/2 cup dark brown sugar (packed)
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg

*Directions
Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease your baking loaf pan and your muffin tin. In a large bowl, beat eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla, and almond extract. Next, add flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and nutmeg and mix until ingredients are well combined. Fold in shredded zucchini and chopped walnuts. Once combined, pour half of the mixture into your loaf pan and leave remaining mix in your bow; set aside.
Next we make the streusel topping. In a small bowl, combine softened butter, quick oats, dark brown sugar, flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Use a fork or your fingers to combine but you want it to get to a crumbly texture.
I'm personally a huge streusel fan, so I added about 3/4 of the streusel mix to the top of the loaf of zucchini bread and slightly pressed down on it. Reserve the other 1/4 for your muffins.
Okay, back to your zucchini mix that is leftover in your bowl. At this point, you're adding the chocolate chips and folding them into the batter. You're also going to add half of the remaining streusel topping into your batter. Once combined, evenly distribute batter into your muffin tins. Add the remaining streusel evenly onto the tops of your muffins and drizzle on your honey as well.
Place your muffins and loaf in the oven. You will bake your muffins for 30 minutes but keep your loaf in for 60.
Enjoy!




















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