Chocolate Zucchini Bread

By Toothfairy90

Ingredients

• 3 large eggs
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• 2 Tbsp. butter
• 6 Tbsp. cocoa powder
• 2 cups zucchini, peeled and grated
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 2/3 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
• 2 tsp. flour
• 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs,sugar,oil and vanilla. Mix until well blended. In a small saucepan melt the butter, add cocoa powder and mix until well blended. Set aside to cool. Peel and grate the zucchini. Add zucchini and cooled cocoa to the sugar mixtur blending well.
In a seperate bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Add dry ingredients to the batter stirring only enough to blend all ingredients.. In another small bowl place chocolate chips and mix with 2 tsp. flour. This helps prevent the chips from sinking to the bottom of the pan. Add chips to batter. Spoon batter into greased and floured 9x5x3 loaf pans. Bake for 60-70 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Cool in pan for 5-10 minutes. Remove from pans and cool on wire rack.