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Zucchini Bread

By Paula Deen

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Zucchini Bread Recipe
63 reviews • 2 questions

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This zucchini bread recipe is a quick and easy sweet bread that is great for breakfast or snacking. Plus, it makes for a heartfelt homemade hostessShow more
This zucchini bread recipe is a quick and easy sweet bread that is great for breakfast or snacking. Plus, it makes for a heartfelt homemade hostess gift!

Difficulty: Medium

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 60 minutes

Servings: 10

Ingredients

  • 2 cups grated zucchini
  • 1/3 cup water
  • 4 beaten eggs
  • 1 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 3 1/4 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon lemon juice
  • 1 cup chopped (or pecans) walnuts

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 °F. In a large bowl, combine flour, salt, nutmeg, baking soda, cinnamon and sugar. In a separate bowl, combine oil, eggs, water, zucchini and lemon juice. Mix wet ingredients into dry, add nuts and fold in. Bake in 2 standard loaf pans, sprayed with nonstick spray, for 1 hour, or until a tester comes out clean. Alternately, bake in 5 mini loaf pans for about 45 minutes. Makes 2 loaves.

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Reviews (63)Questions (2)

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March 06, 2022
So many rave reviews about this, and yet it was a total disappointment for me. And I make my living, literally get paid, to be a baker. The middle of the cake sank, the top of the cake look like a lava rock, you know full of little bubbles, and the cake was stuck in the pan so that about a half an inch on the bottom never came out. So does somebody who had luck with this want to tell me what I did wrong?

July 21, 2021
Baking mine right now. It made 9 mini loaves, not five. Hoping they taste as good as they smell! PS--substituted chocolate chips for pecans.

July 14, 2021
I have a lot of zucchini from my garden and decided to make some zucchini bread with it to give to family as a gift at a birthday dinner. When I read the recipe I was surprised that I only had to spray the pans with cooking spray..I cook and bake a lot and on all my bread recipes I grease and flour the pan per the recipe. I wish I would have just done that because I spent time and expense on making this recipe and both my breads are stuck in the pan...SO frustrated!!!!!!!!!!!!

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August 12, 2020
Did you squeeze out some of the water from the zucchini before putting it into the batter?

The Deen Team

August 13, 2020

No, no need to squeeze it!

November 21, 2018
Sinking Zucchini bread
Every time I make this recipe it rises fine until just before the timer goes off then it sinks. Any suggestions of how to fix this problem?

The Deen Team

November 26, 2018
Try being a little gentler when you're mixing and mix a little slower. If you mix too fast or too hard, you create a lot of air bubbles in the batter, which makes the bread unstable and leads to a sunk middle.

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