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.
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.
Kristen@ changeofpaceforme.com says
Look amazing as always! :)
Elana says
Thanks!
Amyella says
I don’t have a baby loaf pan – can anyone recommend time adjustments (if necessary) for using an 8×8 baking pan? Also, would doubling the recipe make it work for a regular size loaf pan?
Thanks!
QueenJellyBean says
Hi Amy – I’ve run into this while making Elana’s “Bread 2.0”. I regularly use my steel saucepan. You probably have a variety of sizes in your cupboard. I think the one I use is about 7 inches across. Just make sure the handle is oven-safe (some handles can be unscrewed/removed for baking purposes. Feel free to coat w coconut oil or parchment paper for various recipes. Happy baking! LMK if ti turns out ok (and what size pan you used.
Bonus – if your saucepan has a lid – that’s nice to use as you eat the bread and store the rest in the fridge!
Amyella says
What a GREAT idea! Thank you for this suggestion! I didn’t end up using it because my mom came over with a small loaf pan that worked, but I will definitely keep this in mind for the future.
Tamara says
I used an 8.5″ inch steel sauce pan and baked it for 30 minutes. Turned out perfectly! Thanks for the suggestion!
Kimberly says
Elana! Made this tonight. It was remarkable. Left out the stevia vanilla and just increased the agave by a tablespoon. Increased zucchini by a full cup. My husband could not believe there was zucchini as he could not see, feel or taste it.
Made a drizzle by melting 1/2 cup Dagobi 74% chocolate drops, 1tsp grapeseed oil and 1/4 tsp of Luciano brand dark cherry balsamico. Bravo! Thank you for such a divine recipe.
Elana says
Kimberly, thanks for letting us know this bread was remarkable!
chris says
Can you use chia egg instead of eggs?
Elana says
Chris, I haven’t had success with that in my recipes. Here’s a link to my Egg-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/egg-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Veronique says
Will try it without the zucchini. How do I make vanilla stevia with pure white stevia extract?
Joni says
I would take a vanilla bean split it down the middle and add the little vanilla pods to the liquid to make liquid vanilla stevia. I would also let it soak in the liquid for a good while first to build flavor. Or you can also just add a vanilla bean to the recipe as well and then just add the liquid stevia for sweetness.
Mia says
oh that looks simply scrumptious! ?
Elana says
Thanks Mia!
Wendy says
What is the difference between cacao and cocoa powder? Can you substitute?
Maria says
Yes, you can use cocoa powder.
amanda says
Could I use some other flour besides the almond?
Cassie says
You could use any ground up nuts as a replacement.
Personally I don’t blanch my almonds, I just grind up whole almonds (I do this for Elana’s banana, date & walnut loaf – yum!
Carla @ Gluten Free Recipe Box says
I hear that ground sesame seeds work the best as replacement for almond flour/meal. That’s what those who have allergies to nut often use now.
Barbara Ann Paster says
how much sesame seed makes how much almond flour?
Sonia says
Sunflower seeds make a great substitute meal :) I use them cup-for-cup.
Rebecca says
Looks good… just need a substitute for the stevia. It makes me wheezy/coughy… I assume due to my ragweed allergy. :( Would honey or maple syrup work?
Cassie says
You could use any replacement sweetener, you would just need more of it. If that puts out the liquid/dry ratio just add some more flour, but I don’t think this recipe would require it.
Cassie says
Correcting my previous post – there’s no banana in it.
This is the recipe I was referring to https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-date-walnut-bread/
yolanda says
Really looking forward to this. I love zucchini bread.
Elana says
Thanks!
misty says
I just left out the Stevia and it tasted great. Kiddos gobbled it up!
Elana says
Thanks Misty!
Leta says
What size pan did you use?
Brenda says
” 6.5 x 4 inch baby loaf pan, ” per the instructions in #4 on the recipe
All Recipes says
Pan would be 6 inches square, so we cook better Paleo Chocolate bread.
charflik says
When you put the coconut in, is it hard straight out of the jar or do you melt it a bit first?
Elana says
Charflik, I use it at room temperature. No need to melt it first :-)