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    Chocolate Zucchini Bread with Oil-Free and Egg-Free Options

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    By Alisa Fleming on August 8, 2022 Bread, Dairy Free Desserts, Dairy-Free Recipes

    This ingenious dairy-free chocolate zucchini bread recipe was the Runner-Up Winner in a recipe contest that we hosted in 2017. It won for some of the special ingredient touches – like an infusion of spices – and it’s unique usage – as the bread for dairy-free ice cream sandwiches. But of course, you can enjoy a slice of this delicious bread straight up.

    Dairy-Free Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe - optionally oil-free, egg-free, and more! Great for making vegan ice cream sandwiches.

    Chocolate Zucchini Bread that’s Moist, Rich, and Dairy-Free

    This recipe was created by personal trainer Andie Thueson of Maybe I Will., but we’ve recently updated it with more details, ingredient notes, and options.

    What is Natural Cocoa Powder?

    It hasn’t been treated with alkali (like Dutch processed cocoa powder), so natural cocoa powder is more acidic and more bitter. That acidity reacts with baking soda (an alkali) in your cookie dough, giving it a little lift, better texture, and neutralizing the bitterness in the cocoa and the naturally acrid flavor of the baking soda. You can find natural cocoa powder from brands like Hershey’s, Scharffen Berger, Ghirardelli Unsweetened, and Anthony’s.

    What Dairy-Free Yogurt do you Recommend?

    Andie uses So Delicious Coconut Milk Yogurt, and so did we. It has a little bit of fat in it, which I think helps the texture of this dairy-free chocolate zucchini bread. It’s also one of the less expensive vegan yogurt options on the market, and it’s sold in larger tubs.

    Is it Okay to Use Some Oil?

    This is a lower fat baked good, which means the texture tends to be best when warm, toasted, or chilled (like with the ice cream sandwiches), rather than cooled at room temperature. If you do prefer to add a little fat, you have a couple options. You can substitute part oil for some of the dairy-free yogurt or you can simply add a couple tablespoons of oil. A little bit goes a long ways in tenderizing bread.

    How Does this Chocolate Zucchini Bread Taste?

    We did test out Andie’s chocolate zucchini bread recipe for the contest, and even made the vegan version. Here’s what Sarah and her family had to say.

    We really liked this zucchini bread recipe. It has really good flavor. I wasn’t sure how the spices would work with the chocolate, but they do work together. The recipe makes two loaves of zucchini bread, which is a lot! The kids ate the leftover bread for breakfast yesterday and today. It’s very good toasted! It’s a very good bread recipe that we’ll make again.

    Ice Cream Sandwiches? Does that Really Taste Good?

    Andie uses this dairy-free chocolate zucchini bread to make ice cream sandwiches with So Delicious Vanilla Coconutmilk Frozen Dessert. It seems like an obvious concept, yet I’ve never seen it done before – using actual bread to make ice cream sandwiches! We’ve included her option in the recipe, and here’s what one of our contest recipe testers had to say about the actual results.

    The coconut vanilla was the right choice of ice cream. It’s nice and light with the rich bread. Honestly, I love the ice cream sandwich idea. I’m already thinking of other bread/ice cream combinations.

    Dairy-Free Chocolate Zucchini Bread Recipe - optionally oil-free, egg-free, and more! Great for making vegan ice cream sandwiches.

    Special Diet Notes: Chocolate Zucchini Bread

    By ingredients, this recipe is dairy-free / non-dairy, optionally egg-free, nut-free, peanut-free, soy-free, optionally vegan, oil-free, and vegetarian.

    For gluten-free dairy-free chocolate zucchini bread, I recommend substituting your favorite gluten-free baking blend for the flour, and using the eggs (not the egg substitute). Please note that we have not tested this recipe without gluten.

    5.0 from 1 reviews
    Dairy-Free Chocolate Zucchini Bread
     
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    Prep time
    30 mins
    Cook time
    45 mins
    Total time
    1 hour 15 mins
     
    When it's cooler out, enjoy this chocolate zucchini bread fresh from the oven. But when dairy-free ice cream is in order, see the option below for dairy-free ice cream sandwiches!
    Author: Andie Thueson
    Recipe type: Breakfast
    Cuisine: American
    Serves: 2 (9x5-inch) loaves (about 32 slices)
    Ingredients
    • 3 cups all-purpose flour (can substitute white-whole wheat flour)
    • ½ cup natural cocoa powder
    • 1 teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • 1 teaspoon ground cloves
    • 1 teaspoon ground ginger
    • 1 teaspoon ground allspice
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • ½ teaspoon baking powder
    • 2 cups sugar or your granulated sweetener of choice
    • 1 cup plain dairy-free yogurt (see post above for options)
    • 3 large eggs or 3 vegan egg replacers (tested with Bob's Red Mill Egg Replacer)
    • 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
    • 2 cups grated zucchini
    • 1 (10-ounce) bag dairy-free chocolate chips
    Instructions
    1. Preheat your oven to 350ºF and grease two 9x5-inch loaf pans.
    2. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, allspice, salt, and baking powder until all clumps of cocoa powder are gone.
    3. In a large mixing bowl, beat the sugar, yogurt, eggs or egg replacers, and vanilla with a hand mixer to combine. Stir in the zucchini.
    4. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet mixture, stirring to combine. The batter will be very thick. Fold in the chocolate chips.
    5. Divide the batter between the loaf pans and level it out.
    6. Bake the bread for 45 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of each loaf comes out clean.
    7. Let the bread cool for 10 minutes in the pans, before turning them out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
    Notes
    Ice Cream Sandwiches Option: Let a pint of dairy-free ice cream sit at room temperature for 10 minutes or so to soften for easier scooping. We like this bread with vanilla, but chocolate might also be delicious! Once the bread is completely cool, cut 2 slices for a sandwich. Top 1 slice with a scoop of ice cream, and gently press down to make and even layer. Top the ice cream with the second slice and enjoy!
    Nutrition Information
    Serving size: 1 slice Calories: 161 Fat: 4.2g Saturated fat: 2.4g Carbohydrates: 29.9g Sugar: 18.5g Sodium: 120mg Fiber: 1.7g Protein: 2.2g
    3.5.3229

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    Alisa is the founder of GoDairyFree.org, Food Editor for Allergic Living magazine, and author of the best-selling dairy-free book, Go Dairy Free: The Guide and Cookbook for Milk Allergies, Lactose Intolerance, and Casein-Free Living, and the new cookbook, Eat Dairy Free: Your Essential Cookbook for Everyday Meals, Snacks, and Sweets. Alisa is also a professional recipe creator and product ambassador for the natural food industry.

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    2 Comments

    1. Kortney Kwong Hing on September 1, 2017 1:30 am

      I love the idea of using bread! It’s os obvious but I would have never even thought of it!

      Reply
      • Alisa Fleming on September 10, 2017 2:30 pm

        Right? I felt the same way!

        Reply

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