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.
Megan says
Hi Elana! I just have to comment. This bread is simply the best. My go-to every summer. I’ve been making it for years; so much so that I have the recipe memorized by every August. (I do sometimes make it with almond meal in the food processor and actually love the texture! It’s a great way to use my almond milk pulp.) Thank you, again, for a delicious summer!
Elana says
Megan, thanks for letting me know this bread is simply the best, we love it too :-)
lynn says
Elanaa,
Thank you for the wonderful recipe. WE have zucchini coming in so quickly from the garden so this is a great bread to make and share. I stared adding 1/2 cup of Enjoy Life mini chocolate chip to th emix before baking.
I need to know the nutritional value for a guy who thinks it is WAY TO GOOD to be good for you. I thought you usually listed athe value but I cannot find it for this Recipe!
Thank you for all you do to share your yummy recipes.
I have been following you for over 5 years.
Lynn
!
Elana says
Lynn, thanks so much for letting me know this recipe is wonderful!
Vicki says
After following your wonderful blog for 10 years, and making many of your delicious recipes, I finally got around to making this bread for the first time today with my two young boys. It was absolutely delicious! I used more courgette as I used one regular sized courgette and didn’t measure it, so it did take >30 mins to cook, and I usually need to reduce the cooking time of your recipes (London humidity?), but my goodness, so moist and chocolatey, it was like having a slice of cake after dinner, amazing! And my 2 year old who refuses to eat courgettes loved it! Thank you for your constant inspiration Elana!
Elana says
Vicki, thanks for your sweet comment. So happy to hear you and your 2 year old are loving this :-)
Alanna says
It turned out delicious but caved in the middle almost immediately after putting it in the oven. Do you think I over mixed it in the processor?
Elana says
Alanna, thanks for your comment! Since there are no gluten proteins in this recipe that wouldn’t really make a difference. I would guess the issue could be using different brands of ingredients than the ones I use in this recipe, or an oven temp issue. Happy to troubleshoot with you so it comes out perfectly :-)
Alessa Edwards says
I’m at my dad’s and cobbled together all the ingredients for this, or so I thought. The zucchini ended up being small, deceptive cucumbers so I substituted grated carrots for the zucchini. It was successful enough that my picky dad ate some. Sister likes it, since she has problems with zucchini and other squash. Nieces and nephews have it a thumbs up. If I hadn’t over cooked it a tad, it would be the best carrot cake ever.
Elana says
Thanks Alessa!
Darlene says
Hi just wondering what can be substituted for the coconut oil I can’t have coconut oil or palm oil
Elana says
Darlene, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Gail Dale says
Elana I have purchased multiple copies of two of your books for family members as well as myself. Your recipes are not only healthy, but delicious and easy to prepare. I also appreciate knowing the nutritional values of your recipes and I’ve written these values beside each recipe in my two books, The Gluten-free Almond Flour Cookbook and the Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry.
I have also made your chocolate zucchini bread multiple times. I now count my calories and would like to know this bread’s count. Can you tell me?
Again, thank you for help in transforming my eating patterns.
Elana says
Gail, thanks so much for your comment and for your kind words –so glad you are enjoying my books! My amazing readers have calculated the nutrition information for the recipes on this website. For more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a fabulous day!
Elana
Lori says
Love this!
Elana, thanks for this great recipe. I made mine into muffins. So delicious and moist! I will be making this again for sure!
Sincerely,
Lori
Elana says
Lori, thanks for letting me know this is a great recipe!
Emily says
This was a wonderful recipe! Thanks for sharing it! I didn’t have almond flour, so I used almond meal and left out the stevia as it’s not compliant with my current diet. I used regular vanilla instead. The bread was so delicious, moist and perfectly sweet. Thank you!! My picky toddler and husband both loved it too!
Elana says
Emily, so glad to hear you and yours are enjoying this bread :-)
Sara says
This Chocolate Zucchini Bread is seriously good! I’ve got zucchini growing out of my ears and wanted to use some up and this was perfect for that. I tripled the recipe and used a different low-carb sweetener and added a little extra cocoa powder and we can’t stop eating it. So moist and chocolaty – I might even add some chocolate chips to my next batch to up the chocolate factor even more. Thanks for this great, easy, recipe that doesn’t have an ingredient list a mile long :) You’ve made this celiac, diabetic, hypothyroid girl very happy!!
Elana says
Sara, you are my celiac, diabetic, hypothyroid sister (except swap the diabetes for MS). Glad to hear you are loving this recipe, and it is ALWAYS my goal to give you and my other readers recipes lists that aren’t a mile long :-)
Joyce says
I don’t have any zucchini on hand but curious if this would work well with yellow squash? Thanks!
Elana says
Joyce, I haven’t tried that so not sure, if you experiment please stop back by to let me know if it worked :-)