Moist Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chips Recipe - These Old Cookbooks (2024)

Moist Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chip is a Zucchini Bread Recipe with Applesauce. Using healthier ingredients such as applesauce, honey and coconut oil takes the guilt out of this delicious bread.

Moist Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chips Recipe

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread was a staple in our house growing up. Our mom still makes her famous version today and usually has at least a couple of loaves in the freezer at any given time. Check out Mom’s Version.

Before the popularity of “Zoodles” and using zucchini in a variety of recipes (like our Spicy Roasted Zucchini), Zucchini Bread seemed to be the only way to use up the extras that anyone who has zucchini in their garden knows what I’m talking about!

Barbara’s good friend made this moist zucchini bread (her family’s favorite) for a party recently, and she was hooked. What makes it so moist? It’s the commination of applesauce, honey and coconut oil that make this chocolate chip zucchini bread so moist that you might confuse it with banana bread instead.

Healthy Zucchini Bread Ingredient List

It is easy to feel less guilty about this chocolate chip zucchini bread recipe since it has a number of healthy secret ingredients.

• All Purpose Flour – Looking to make this recipe even healthier? You could use half whole wheat flour and half all purpose flour.
• Baking Powder
• Baking Soda
• Salt
• Ground Cinnamon
• Ground Nutmeg
• Large Eggs
• Honey – This recipe calls for honey instead of sugar making for a slightly healthier and more moist loaf of quick bread.
• Applesauce – Use unsweetened applesauce in place of a portion of the oil.
• Coconut Oil – If you don’t have coconut oil, you can use vegetable or canola oil instead.
• Fresh Zucchini (grated or shredded zucchini)
• Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips – Try substituting dark chocolate chips or carob chips if you want a “healthier” option.

How to Make Healthy Zucchini Bread

Step By Step Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F; spray a loaf pan with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, combine dry ingredients including flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, ground cinnamon and ground nutmeg; in a separate bowl, mix eggs, honey, applesauce and coconut oil.
3. To the wet ingredients, alternately add flour mixture and grated zucchini.
4. Stir in chocolate chips to the batter; pour into prepared pan.
5. Bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
6. Let cool in the pan for a few minutes before removing to a wire rack.
7. Slice into pieces; eat with butter, if desired.

For the full ingredient amounts and recipe steps for healthy zucchini bread with applesauce, scroll to the bottom of this post.

Recipe FAQs

• Looking for an even healthier zucchini bread recipe? Try swapping in 1/2 whole wheat flour and 1/2 all purpose flour.
• Grate zucchini by hand with a box grater or even easier with a food processor with a grating attachment.
• To get honey to flow easily from a liquid measuring cup, spray it with nonstick cooking spray first.
• Chocolate chips could me omitted if desired.
• Try using unsweetened applesauce in this zucchini bread with applesauce recipe. This will keep the sugar content lower.
• This healthy zucchini bread recipe makes one loaf of bread, and we use a 9-inch by 5-inch loaf pan.
• Lacking a bread pan? Try baking in an 8 x 8 inch baking dish instead. The cooking time could possibly be a 5 – 10 minutes shorter.

Optional Add-Ins

• Add chopped nuts such as pecans or walnuts.
• Swap semi-sweet chips for butterscotch chips or milk chocolate chips.
• Try adding some shredded coconut.
• Add a 1/4 cup or cocoa powder for more chocolate flavor.
• For more flavor, add in vanilla extract or almond extract.

Easy Zucchini Recipes

Try some of our other favorite zucchini recipes:

Fried Zucchini Fritters

Spicy Roasted Zucchini

Cheesy Zucchini Casserole

Frosted Zucchini Bars

Zucchini Pie

Do you peel zucchini before grating it for zucchini bread?

There’s no need to peel your zucchini before grating or shredding it for zucchini bread.

Favorite Zucchini Bread Recipes

Check out some of our other favorite Zucchini Bread recipes:

• Mom’s Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
• Classic Zucchini Bread
• Zucchini Bread with Walnuts
• Mocha Glazed Chocolate Zucchini Bread
• Caramel Zucchini Bread