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.
Elizabeth says
Than you for the recipe! I can not wait to try it although I am not very fond of zucchini. I would like to know if one can store it in the freezer as well as the fridge. What do you think, Elana?
Elana says
Elizabeth, thanks for your comment! I haven’t tried storing this in the freezer. Storage instructions for the fridge are in the paragraph below the recipe :-)
Gail says
According to the ancient healing science of India, Ayurveda, honey becomes toxic when it is heated or cooked. May I suggest substituting maple syrup.
Elana says
Gail, thanks so much for your feedback! If you try it I hope you’ll let us know how it goes :-)
Christine says
I have made this many times, and in fact had a muffin-version today! I double the recipe, put into muffin cups, and bake at 350 for about 18 minutes. I freeze them for breakfasts and snacks for my girls’ lunches. I love them, and recently served them to a friend who also loves chocolate and zucchini muffins (in flour- and sugar- laden recipes), and she loved them!
Elana says
Christine, thanks for your comment! I’m so happy this passed the “flour and sugar laden” recipe test with your friend :-)
Kelly Decker says
Hi Elana, I was just wondering if this was SCD friendly? As I was looking over the ingredients I thought it would be okay, but it’s not in the SCD section. Thanks so much for all you do. Your work has truly changed lives!
Elana says
Kelly, thanks for your comment! This bread is not SCD compliant, but here’s a link to all of my recipes that are:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/specific-carbohydrate-diet/
Enjoy!
Elana
Deb says
I love your recipes! but now I’m at a cabin that doesn’t have a food processor. Can I make this with a regular hand mixer?
Elana says
Deb, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
DebW. says
I managed to borrow a food processor. I made the recipe as described, but added 1/4 cup DF/GF mini chocolate chips, sprinkled the tops with chopped, toasted pecans. and baked as muffin for 18 minutes.( made 9 muffins). Absolutely yummy. Loved by my zucchini-hating husband.
Elana says
Deb, thanks for letting me know that this was loved by your husband and absolutely yummy!
Kara Schiller says
I have made this and only mixed it by hand, worked fine!
Elana says
Thanks Kara!
Stacy Cohen says
Hi Elena,
You’ve done it again girl! YUMM! Great recipe! Thank you kindly
xo,
Stacy
Elana says
Stacy, you’re welcome! Glad to hear this bread was YUMM :-)
Alana says
Hi Elana, I just wanted to write and say thank you for all your amazing recipes. I have tried quite a few now and find them easy and just the right size for my baking needs. This Chocolate Zucchini bread has become a staple that I make every week now that I’ve got lots of zucchinis growing in my garden. It’s great knowing that what I’m making is better/healthier for me and I can even get my fussy daughter to eat some greens smuggled into this recipe. I use almond meal instead of flour as almond flour is difficult to find here in Australia and I also sub in rice malt syrup for the honey to reduce the fructose content. The resulting bread comes out denser than yours but I quite like it that way. I have also added some raspberries to the recipe sometimes to mix it up which also work well. Anyway I just wanted to say thank you for all your hard work and sharing your fantastic recipes. I really appreciate it.
Elana says
Alana, you’re welcome! I’m so glad you are enjoying my recipes and that they are easy and amazing :-)
Ali says
Can I sub rice flour?
Elana says
Hi Ali, thanks for your question and so sorry I can’t be of more help! I haven’t eaten rice, or used rice flour since 2001, the year I went on a grain-free, paleo diet :-)
Katherine says
Made these as muffins, and have been loving them. I am going to try making another batch to see how well they freeze. They may be my answer to something chocolate-y when the mood strikes.
Elana says
Katherine, I’m so happy to hear you are loving this recipe :-)
Harriet says
I am going to do the same thing. I need a good go to snack when I get home from work. Great recipe!!!
Elana says
Harriet, I’m so happy to hear this is a great recipe!
Alice Spence says
How did they freeze?
Keith says
This is a great bread but we are very confused by the loaf pan measurement. You state a 6.5X 4 and yet your link brings us to a 6.75X 4.5 butter dish for $36. I can find nowhere online for a 6.5X4″ loaf pan. Any help?
Elana says
Keith, the dish that is linked in the recipe is the dish that I use. I often see this exact size loaf pan at yard sales and thrift stores for a couple of bucks :-)