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Chocolate hazelnut zucchini bread - sinfully delicious, super moist, and rich, with intense dark chocolate hazelnut flavor, this bread is the ultimate chocolate lover indulgence, yet it's healthy too - low in sugar, gluten free, and full of good fats, and fiber. | www.viktoriastable.com

Dark chocolate zucchini bread

Course Baked goods, Breakfast / Dessert
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 45 minutes
Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings 1 loaf/10 servings
Calories 296 kcal
Author Viktoria

Ingredients

  • 2 cups roasted hazelnuts (8-10 oz)
  • 1 1/2 cups grated zucchini (from 1 medium zucchini)
  • 3 large eggs, or 4 small ones
  • 1/4 cup coconut sugar
  • 1/4 cup coconut milk
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • pinch of salt
  • a handful of hazelnuts (optional)
  • 50 g chopped dark chocolate (optional)

Instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 350° F.

  2. If your hazelnuts are raw, toast them first in the oven for 10-15 minutes stirring occasionally until lightly toasted and fragrant. Let them cool completely before processing. If using pre-roasted hazelnuts, quickly pulverize them in a food processor, with the S-blade attached, until they resemble a coarse sand (about 20 seconds).
  3. Using a hand mixer, beat the eggs with the sugar, coconut milk, coconut oil, vanilla and a good pinch of salt.
  4. Add the cocoa powder, the baking powder and baking soda, and mix well.
  5. Stir in the hazelnut meal.
  6. Grate the zucchini finely, and squeeze as much liquid as possible. Add the grated zucchini to the batter.
  7. Optionally, add coarsely chopped toasted hazelnuts, and 50g chopped dark chocolate, and push into the batter.
  8. Line a bread loaf pan with parchment paper and brush coconut oil at the bottom and sides.
  9. Pour the batter, and bake at 350 F for 50-60 min, or until a toothpick inserted all the way in, comes out clean.

  10. To make the quick coffee butter: mix 2 tbs softened butter, 1 tsp honey, and 1 tsp instant coffee (Nescafe is preferable) until you get a homogeneous mixture.