TikTok Tuesday: Zucchini Bread

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♬ original sound - Kathy Jentz

By Molly Cuddy

This past week, I tried making zucchini bread for the first time! I got this large zucchini from our community garden plot. (It was way more zucchini than I needed for this recipe!) Since I love to bake, I knew I had to make zucchini bread. My good friend Casey sent me her recipe. I’ve been making her banana bread recipe for over a year now, so I knew I could trust her zucchini bread one too! 

Casey’s recipes made two loaves of bread. I only wanted to make one, so I adjusted the recipe a bit. Here’s what I used:

• 1.5 cups of shredded zucchini
• 2 eggs
• 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour
• ½ vegetable oil
• about 2 ¾ cup of white sugar
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
• ½ teaspoon of baking soda
• ½ teaspoon of baking powder
• ½ teaspoon of salt
• about a teaspoon of cinnamon
• chocolate chips (if you want!)

Right as I got ready to make the bread, I realized our apartment baking soda had gone missing! I couldn’t find it anywhere. So I just added more baking powder and hoped for the best. I think it still came out great for my first try! It’s super flavorful and moist. I love having a piece for dessert or with a cup of coffee. 

Washington Gardener's editor, Kathy, also sent me her favorite recipe for chocolate zucchini bread and that looks super good as well, I just didn’t have any cocoa powder on hand this time to make it.

Check out my TikTok video here on my process of making the bread.

About the Author

Molly Cuddy is a journalism major at the University of Maryland, College Park, and an intern this summer with Washington Gardener. She is also a campus tour guide and will be a teaching assistant for a professional writing class next semester.