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Secondly, if you've never made chocolate zucchini bread - this is going to rock your world.
As part of my goals for this year, I've been intentionally trying to make better food choices for my family. None of us technically have to be gluten-free, but I just notice that my belly does better when I don't include as many wheat products in my diet. I've also been wanting to try making and using my own flour for my gluten-free baking, and this was the perfect recipe to try it out!
I'm not going to lie, I was pretty intimidated to bake with oat and almond flour. I quickly found out that it's so incredibly easy to make your own gluten-free oat flour - you literally just need gluten-free oats and a food processor or blender! One good thing to note, you'll need more liquid whenever you're baking with oat flour as oats are really good at soaking liquid up. So keeping that in mind and tweaking the original recipe a bit, the consistency of this zucchini bread turned out as fluffy and incredibly moist (ugh, I am not a fan of that word but it's the only word that perfectly describes it!) as a perfect chocolate cake.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Ingredients:
I'm not going to lie, I was pretty intimidated to bake with oat and almond flour. I quickly found out that it's so incredibly easy to make your own gluten-free oat flour - you literally just need gluten-free oats and a food processor or blender! One good thing to note, you'll need more liquid whenever you're baking with oat flour as oats are really good at soaking liquid up. So keeping that in mind and tweaking the original recipe a bit, the consistency of this zucchini bread turned out as fluffy and incredibly moist (ugh, I am not a fan of that word but it's the only word that perfectly describes it!) as a perfect chocolate cake.
First, you want to pre-heat your oven to 375° and mix all your dry ingredients - oat flour, almond flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, brown sugar, salt and ground flax & nuts (optional).
Next, you'll want to strain as much water as you can from your grated zucchini before you add it in. It helps to have them rest for a few minutes after you grate them.
Then, you want to beat the eggs for a little bit so they're nice and fluffy - this will help with the consistency when it's all said and done! And then add all your wet ingredients - eggs, almond milk (or regular milk), vanilla melted coconut oil and chocolate. If you only have cocoa powder on hand you can definitely use that instead, just add it in with the dry ingredients!
And then you want to add a few more chocolate chips... you know, for good measure.
Pour into a bread pan lined with parchment paper and add just a few more chocolate chips. (Because obviously you can never have too many!)
Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until it passes the toothpick test.
Final step is to try not to eat the whole thing in one sitting! Seriously y'all, it's that good.
Gluten-Free Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Ingredients:
- 2 cups or about 2 medium zucchinis, grated
- 1 1/2 cups oat flour
- 3/4 cup almond flour/meal
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup almond mik
- 1/4 cup melted coconut oil
- 1/4 chocolate chips melted (or 1/2 of cocoa powder)
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1/4 chocolate chips (for sprinkling on top before baking)
- optional - nuts (I used pecans)
- optional - 1/4 cup ground flax seed
- Preheat oven to 375°
- Combine oat flour, almond flour/meal, brown sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, salt and ground flax seed in a bowl.
- Strain grated zucchini and add to dry ingredients.
- Beat eggs for 5 minutes, until they are a little fluffy.
- Add to mixture along with almond milk.
- Melt chocolate chips with coconut oil and vanilla.
- Combine all ingredients and mix well.
- Line a loaf pan with parchment paper and spray with coconut oil (optional). Pour mixture in and sprinkle remaining chocolate chips on top.
- Bake for 45-55 minutes, or until it's cooked through and passes the toothpick test.
- Let it cool before slicing and enjoy!