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.
Carla Flaim says
Made this last week, and it is great. However, I didn’t sleep all night. Sensitive to the cocoa I guess. Not a great evening treat for me! Put the rest in the freezer to enjoy for breakfast! thanks for the recipe
Elana says
Carla, thanks for letting me know that this recipe is great :-)
Laurie says
Hi Elana,
Thanks so much for this recipe. Whenever I make this bread it disappears in a couple days so yesterday I doubled the recipe and made a regular sized loaf and it turned out very well. Probably should have pulled the loaf out at 55 minutes, as the edges looked a bit dark, but my partner says it is great.
Am trying to get through lots of zucchini from our CSA so I have a loaf of your low carb zucchini bread in the oven as I type!
I always look forward to your posts, thank you for all you do!
Elana says
Laurie, thanks for your comment! I’m so happy that this bread is in your regular rotation :-)
Michelle says
This recipe is a total keeper! My now go-to chocolate cake/cupcakes recipe for my family and I. I use duck eggs because my son can’t have chicken eggs and I usually add even more zucchini and it is so moist. Keeps great in fridge. I make a double batch and make cupcakes and a loaf. I topped these with coconut cream whipped cream with matcha green tea powder. Yum! Kids are requesting nut butter flavored whipped coconut cream “frosting” next. Thanks! I was wondering, too, which recipe is the “vanilla” version of this, as we sometimes don’t want chocolate–believe it or not. Is it the regular zucchini bread recipe you have posted?
Elana says
Michelle, here’s a link to my Zucchini Bread recipe for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/low-carb-zucchini-bread/
Thanks for letting me know that my Paleo Chocolate Zucchini Brerad recipe is a total keeper!
Elana
tara says
My bread was delicious, however it did collapse in the centre which was a bummer. Anyone else have this happen? Thanks Ellana!!
Elana says
Tara, I haven’t had this happen. Make sure you use the recommended brands of almond flour for best results:
https://elanaspantry.com/ingredients/almond-flour/
Enjoy!
Elana
Jennifer says
Amazing recipe! It’s easily doubled to fill 4 mini bread pans. This is so good my grain-loving 12 year old keeps eating it instead of the regular, flour-based recipe I made for her. I followed the recipe as written, other than using vanilla extract instead of the vanilla stevia. I also added chocolate chips and walnuts.
Elana says
Jennifer, thanks for letting me know this recipe is amazing, we love it too :-)
Jeanne A Hendrickson says
This sounds delicious and I can’t wait to make it! Should the water be removed from the zucchini before adding it to the batter?
Elana says
Jeanne, nope :-)
Jeanne A Hendrickson says
thanks!
Elana says
Jeanne, you’re welcome!
Elaine says
This was very impressive. It tasted great and was easy to make. Thought it was ironic, in Texas when zucchini would be in abundance-coconut oil is a liquid at room temperature!
Elana says
Elaine, so glad to hear this bread is impressive, tastes great, and is easy to make!
Kathy says
This is probably my all time favorite of Elana’s recipes. I make it into muffins for a quick breakfast or snack and they are always delicious. =D
Thank you!
Elana says
Kathy, thanks for your comment and for letting me know this is your all time favorite!
Chandor Simone says
Hi Elana,
Your chocolate zucchini bread looks absolutely delicious and I cannot wait to try it out on my kids.
However, my little girl cannot have eggs. What could I substitute those with?
Thanks in advance!
Elana says
Chandor, here’s a link to my Egg-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/egg-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Penny says
Thank you, I was looking for egg free also! Hoping this is not a forever thing!
Elana says
Penny, I hope so too! Here’s a link that might help you:
https://elanaspantry.com/how-i-healed-my-gut/
Enjoy!
Elana
Chandor Simone says
Thank you Elana. I have made this using flaxeseed eggs and it’s delicious! Both my kids love it :)
Elana says
Chandor, thanks for your comment! That is so great to hear. I haven’t ever had success in making egg-free bread recipes and would love to hear what exact measurements and procedures you followed :-)
Rhonda Case says
Hi Elana in choc zucchni only flour I can use is coconut wud that be any gud in this and if so how? Thanx
Elana says
Rhonda, for more on that please go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/paleo-baking-almond-flour-vs-coconut-flour/
Enjoy!
Elana
Diane says
Hi Elana, as usual thank you for your deliciousness! I’ve made this recipe before but notice that the date of publishing it is now today. Did you change anything from the previous iteration?
Elana says
Diane, thanks for your comment! No changes, this recipe is an oldie but goodie from the archives that I first published in 2013 :-)