My Low-Carb Chocolate Zucchini Bread recipe is perfect when your garden is exploding with zucchini! We love it so much, though, that we make it year round.
Low-Carb Chocolate Zucchini Bread
This easy recipe for low carb bread is also fantastic if your CSA share is erupting with the prolific produce that is summer squash.
Low Carb Bread Tastes Better from Scratch
The best thing about my Low-Carb Chocolate Zucchini Bread recipe is that it’s so delicious your friends will gobble it up without ever knowing it’s healthy.
Low-Carb Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Ingredients
- 1¼ cups blanched almond flour (not almond meal)
- ¼ cup cacao powder
- ¼ teaspoon celtic sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil, room temperature
- ¼ cup honey or maple syrup
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla stevia
- ¾ cup grated zucchini (4 ounces)
Instructions
- In a food processor combine almond flour and cacao powder
- Pulse in salt and baking soda
- Pulse in eggs, coconut oil, honey, and stevia
- Briefly pulse in zucchini
- Transfer batter to a parchment lined 6×4 small loaf pan
- Bake at 350°F for 35-40 minutes
- Cool for 2 hours
- Serve
How to Make: Healthy Bread
This low carb dessert recipe is also super easy to make.
Readers tell me they turn this into a one-bowl recipe by mixing up all the ingredients in the food processor, then grating the zucchini right into the batter.
Recipes with a Cuisinart Food Processor
Recipes like this have turned my food processor into my all-time favorite kitchen tool.
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Nutritious Zucchini Bread
Sweetened with honey and a bit of vanilla stevia, this summer dessert makes an excellent healthy snack for kids.
It’s equally delicious for dessert with a cup of my low-carb Iced Ginger Chai.
How to Store Zucchini Bread
To store this recipe for chocolate zucchini bread, wrap in a paper towel, seal in a plastic bag, and refrigerate for up to one week.
Zucchini Bread with Cacao Powder
I’m a huge fan of any easy zucchini bread recipe, but since chocolate has my heart, this one is my fave.
Gluten Free Zucchini Bread
Yes, this low carb bread recipe is gluten free!
Every recipe on my website is not only gluten free, but grain free, low carb, and made with nutritious ingredients.
Is Zucchini a Fruit?
Zucchini is an incredibly healthy vegetable –well, it’s technically a fruit.
This summer squash is a superfood full of vitamins A and C and loaded with potassium and folate. Furthermore, zucchini is nutritious because it’s:
- High Fiber
- Low Calorie
- Antioxidant Rich
Almond Flour Zucchini Bread with Organic Coconut Oil
One of the ingredients that gives this bread a moist, rich texture is a small amount of coconut oil.
Studies have shown that in addition to numerous other health benefits, coconut oil can help the immune system mount resistance to viruses.
Coconut Oil and Gut Motility
One thing to note, however, is that in addition to MCTs, coconut oil contains saturated fat, which can cause sluggish gut motility. I keep my consumption of it in check to keep things moving down there.
Recipe for Nutritious Zucchini Bread
This nutritious zucchini bread is made of healthy ingredients.
On top of that, the antioxidants in the cacao powder take the nutrition level of this dessert up a notch.
Keto Recipes
My husband absolutely loves my keto dessert recipes, and this nutritious zucchini bread is no exception.
Zucchini Recipes
As the warm weather marches on, the zucchini will keep growing, and growing some more!
Here are some of my other healthy zucchini recipes to help you take charge!
Low Carb Zucchini Bread
Looking for another recipe for nutritious Zucchini Bread?
This fantastic low-carb bread is made with an almond flour base and has eight ingredients total, including salt and baking soda!
Nut-Free Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chips
My Nut-Free Zucchini Bread with Chocolate Chips is also sugar free, made with a coconut flour base, sweetened with Swerve and vanilla stevia.
Your nut-free, chocolate-loving friends will love this delicious loaf.
Lemon Rosemary Zucchini Bread
My Lemon Rosemary Zucchini Bread pairs these two unique flavors, creating a next-level flavor bomb experience.
Made with a base of almond flour, I love that this nutritious zucchini bread does not spike my blood sugar.
Nut Free Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
My healthy Nut Free Zucchini Muffins recipe, made with a coconut flour base and lightly sweetened with honey, is a classic that my boys have loved since they were little.
Back then, they used to scoop the batter into the muffin cups and thought that was a really big deal. ❤️
Easy Zucchini Recipes
All of my recipes are super easy, but these zucchini recipes will save you more time than most.
Zucchini Bumper Crop
Do you have so much zucchini growing in your garden that you aren’t sure what to do? My tasty ideas will help when you have a bumper crop of summer squash.
For a full write-up of all things zucchini, check out my Easy Keto Zucchini Recipes.
Nutritious Zucchini Bread Recipes
Leave a comment with your favorite way to use up zucchini! Sweet or savory? Dessert or side dish? Let me know!
This recipe is an oldie but goodie from the archives, I first shared it in 2013.
Colleen says
Fantastic recipe – have been making this for years, based on an earlier version posted. However I make as muffins, cooking for 24 minutes. And switched out stevia to a dash of vanilla flavouring and almond flavouring. Also upped zucchini amount to 1.25 cups. I use honey as opposed to maple syrup.
Elana says
Thanks Colleen!
Kelly says
I’m making this using a muffin tin. Any idea how long to bake them for? Usually recipes will decrease baking time for muffins.
Elana says
Kelly, I haven’t tried that :-)
Alessa says
I use this recipe as the basis for a chocolate zucchini cake. The only difference is that I use 1 cup of zucchini (& I don’t squeeze out the excess liquid). I bake it in a small round cake pan (or double the recipe for an 8×8 stoneware square pan). I use Neutella as my frosting, which I know a lot of people can’t use. My niece requires this for her birthday. Her brothers fight over the last piece.
Elana says
Alessa, thank you for your fantastic comment!
Alessa says
My family *knows* that I basically stole this recipe from you. And every one who I’ve baked this for —since 2014-15 — loves it!
And I recommend your site all the time for people with food intolerances.
Elana says
Alessa, thank you so much!!!
Jane Zatlin says
I seem to have a Venn diagram of what I can eat, being pre-diabetic and a sensitive celiac. This recipe is fabulous. I subbed stevia and cream to make up the liquid, just took a chance, and it is so delicious. Thank you for all your great recipes. I’ve used your choice of sweeteners over the years, but now sweeteners spike my sugar,and stevia, using a different pathway, does not. I had been avoiding stevia, because of its possible hormone disruption, but I’m older and figure the glucose reading is more important for me. Would not recommend it for a young person. Almond flour is my friend on the path to health!
Elana says
Jane, thanks for letting me know this recipe is fabulous!
Adrienne says
The batter tasted great, but after cooking they came out super dry and not … good
Elana says
Adrienne, this is what happens when you use coconut flour instead of the almond flour called for in the recipe.
joan says
I just made Low Carb Choc Zucchini bread in the food processor. It came out great and it tastes wonderful. Then I made it again the old fashion way. Yes, mixing dry ingredients and wet ones separately.
I’m old fashion and enjoy hands on. (Don’t mind washing dishes.)
As usual your recipe is yummy. Thanks again, and a Happy Healthy New Year to you and your family. (A little early).
Elana says
Joan, happy new year!
Debbie says
What are the nutritional numbers?
Elana says
Debbie, for more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a great day!
Elana
Joyce Hayes says
This recipe looks great. But, I can not eat eggs. Do you have any suggestions on how to make this a no egg recipe. My baking has taken a real hit since the no egg policy.
Elana says
Joyce, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
alessa edwards says
I actually sub this for cake. I up the zucchini to 1 cup and bake until it’s still a bit clingy to the toothpick. Then follow the rest of the recipe. Sometimes I add choc chips &/or frost with Nutella for the non-allergic niece and nephews
Elana says
Alessa –Nutella?! Heck yeah.
Joan says
Has anyone tried this bread substituting applesauce for honey? My husband can’t have zucchini or bananas-
Elana says
Joan, here’s a link to my bread recipes –there are quite a few that do not contain zucchini or bananas that might work for the DH:
https://elanaspantry.com/recipes/breads/
Enjoy!
Elana