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Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread

September 8, 2018 Updated August 3, 2020 2 Comments

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Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread

 Intensely moist Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread is extremely flavorful with the addition of chocolate chips and shredded coconut.

Zucchini bread is so quick and easy to make and a great solution to the zucchini that suddenly grows 18 inches overnight!  I swear that happens to me every year/week.

I spend my life hiding healthy foods in recipes from my husband.  It’s getting more and more difficult to disguise zucchini.  That’s why I made small little cakes, drizzled them with chocolate ganache, coconut, and chocolate chunks.  I’m not saying this is a health food.  You have to admit zucchini bread is a great way to use up an extremely large zucchini.

This recipe can be easily baked in a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan.

Let’s make quick and easy chocolate zucchini bread (with coconut):

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Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
  • Prepare pans or ramekins by greasing with oil, spray, and then lining with parchment paper for easy removal.
  • Grate 2 cups of zucchini.  Golden or green.  Set aside.
  • Gather and measure all of the ingredients listed in the recipe.
  • In a large bowl, sift or whisk dry ingredients together.  (sugar, flour, cocoa, coconut, salt, soda, and baking powder)
  • Set aside.
Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
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Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
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  • In a smaller bowl, beat eggs and oil together until frothy.
  • Stir in grated zucchini
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Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
  • Add egg zucchini mixture to the dry ingredients.  Stir only to combine.
  • Fold in chocolate chips.
  • Pour batter into a 5 x 9-inch bread pan, 6 3-inch ramekins, 6 small bread pans, or 12-18 muffin cups.
  • Bake in a preheated oven for 50-55 minutes for bread, 22 minutes for smaller ramekins.  18 minutes for muffins.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for 5 minutes before removing from pans or ramekins.  I added little strips of parchment to make removal super simple.

Let’s make a ganache!

Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
  • Chop 8 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate.  Chocolate wafers or chips may be used.
  • Heat cream or coconut cream in a small saucepan over medium heat until small bubbles are beginning to form around the edges.  Remove from heat.
  • Add chocolate and butter.  Let stand for about 10 minutes.
  • Stir until smooth and creamy.  Let cool for about another 10-15 minutes for a thicker ganache.

Drizzle cooled ganache over little cakes, bread, or muffins.  Ganache is optional, of course, but who would want to do that?

Top with more chocolate shavings and flaked coconut. 

Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
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Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread

Quick and easy chocolate zucchini bread with coconut and chocolate chips

Course Breads
Cuisine American
Keyword breads, quick breads, zucchini bread
Prep Time 15 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 15
Calories 249 kcal

Ingredients

Bread

  • 1/2 cup olive oil light flavored
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 2 cups zucchini shredded
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/3 cup cocoa
  • 1/3 cup coconut unsweetened desiccated
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 cup chocolate chips semi-sweet

Chocolate Ganache Glaze

  • 8 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
  • 2/3 cup cream or coconut cream
  • 2 tbsp butter

Optional toppings

  • semi-sweet chocolate chunks or shavings
  • coconut flaked or ribbons

Instructions

Bread

  1. Lightly grease and line with parchment paper a 9 x 5-inch bread baking pan.  Set aside. Preheat oven to 350F degrees.

  2. whisk or sift together sugar, flour, cocoa, coconut, salt, baking powder, soda.  

  3. Mix oil, eggs, and vanilla in a bowl until light in color.  Stir in grated zucchini.  Set aside.

  4. Mix dry ingredients into egg mixture.  Mix just until combined and fold in chocolate chips. 

Chocolate Ganache Glaze

  1. In a small sauce pan, heat cream until steamy and barely beginning to boil around the edges. Add chopped chocolate and butter. Let stand for about 10 minutes.  Stir until smooth allow to cool for 20-30 minutes before glazing bread.  Top with chopped chocolate and flaked coconut ribbons

Recipe Notes

  • 6 small bread pans may be used instead on one large OR 6 3-inch ramekins OR 12-18 muffin cups.
  • If you're not a coconut fan, omit coconut all together.  Add and additional 1/4 cup flour.
  • Coconut oil may be used in place of light flavored olive oil OR Avocado oil may be used.
Nutrition Facts
Chocolate Coconut Zucchini Bread
Amount Per Serving (1 slice)
Calories 249 Calories from Fat 135
% Daily Value*
Fat 15g23%
Saturated Fat 5g25%
Cholesterol 30mg10%
Sodium 101mg4%
Potassium 158mg5%
Carbohydrates 26g9%
Fiber 1g4%
Sugar 17g19%
Protein 3g6%
Vitamin A 165IU3%
Vitamin C 3.1mg4%
Calcium 31mg3%
Iron 1.5mg8%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

Zucchini on steroids.  This is what happens when one doesn’t check the garden in 5 days.

 

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  1. Susan Hanks says

    September 13, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    Where do you get the dessicated unsweetened coconut? Do you order it on line?

    Reply
    • Janet Barton says

      September 13, 2018 at 8:51 pm

      I can buy it at any local grocery store in my area. It’s just a dry coconut very small…like the kind in a coconut macaroon. You can use sweetened coconut if you’d like.

      Reply

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