Chocolate Zucchini Bread

This chocolate zucchini bread is packed with wholesome ingredients like whole wheat flour, flax, oats, banana, zucchini and yogurt – but you can’t tell from the rich chocolate taste and dense satisfying texture. This recipe will quickly become your favorite way to eat both zucchini and bananas.

This chocolate zucchini banana bread- I looove this recipe and you will too!

I’ve made this chocolate zucchini bread more times than I can count and every single time, my husband and I wolf it down within 24 hours. Its great for breakfasts, snacks, and even a sweet night cap that is full of veggies and other wholesome ingredients. It’s incredibly popular in my choco-loving house.

If you haven’t had chocolate zucchini bread, this may just be the only way you want to use ripe bananas from here on out.  These peanut butter banana muffins are also pretty epic, but *ahem* chocolate is chocolate so this one has more of a dessert like vibe to it, especially with those added chocolate chips.

You can skip them, but trust me and just don’t. Those little chocolaty pockets are MONEY my friends. They’re the reason I wake up in the morning some days. So that I can munch this dessert-like chocolate zucchini banana bread and still have it count as breakfast.  It’s a reason to live.

Here’s a quick pic of the good stuff. I mean how could you go wrong when your bread is loaded with fruits and veggies but tastes like a decadent dessert? Exactly.

Notice how brown those bananas are? If you’re a banana bread enthusiast, you already know that this is essential, but for the rest of you, as bananas brown, they become more sugary. To make sure I always have peak banana bread quality bananas on hand, I freeze bananas when they get to this stage (i.e. still yellowish but covered in brown spots). Then, when the banana bread craving hits, I simply pull them out of the freezer and defrost.

This is great for those times where you buy a slew of bananas with the best intentions of eating them all but then they go brown before you even put a dent in them.

I’m not complaining. A good banana bread is worth having a brown banana or two sitting around on the counter. Especially when the recipe is an easy one like this. Here’s a play by play of the basic steps. Dry ingredients + wet ingredients + zucchini and chocolate chips and you have yourself some delicious bread that will knock your socks off.

Its a thick batter so you’ll need a spoon’s help to pour it into the pan. This makes for a dense, cake-like bread in the best possible way.

If you have reservations about chocolate zucchini bread on account of the veggies, have no fear. Chocolate overpowers all and the zucchini just adds a bit of texture and nutrition. It provides a legit reason for calling this a natural veggie filled snack too so it serves many purposes.

I know I’ve done some questionable chocolate pairing with my chocolate avocado truffles and beet red velvet cupcakes. Sounds dicey but all of these recipes turned out just fabulously. Make one of them today and treat yourself! Whichever sounds best to you, just do it. You deserve a little chocolate.