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.
Cathy Athope says
What size pan? Yield 1 loaf?
Thanks
Elana says
Cathy, if you click the link in the instructions portion of the recipe you will be given that information :-)
N says
FABULOUS RECIPE!
I make 4 LOAVES from a thick 6 inch zucc.
I use extra stout Cacao powder!
Chocolate heaven-new game …..hide and eat!
Grazie
N/2021
Elana says
Thanks N :-)
Kathy Keller says
I made this chocolate zucchini bread last weekend when both my sons were home for a short visit. The zucchini bread must have been extra good because it had disappeared before I knew it. I appreciate having a recipe source that is so dependable and delicious. I am Type 1 diabetic and it is a privilege to be able to enjoy delectable baked goods without feeling guilty.
Elana says
Kathy, thanks for letting me know this zucchini bread is extra good!
Jessica V says
It would be so helpful, especially on a “wellness” site, if you published the nutrition information for this recipe. Or am I missing it somewhere?
Elana says
Jessica, for more on that go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a terrific day!
Elana
Phyllis says
Hi Elana,
I’ve been making this recipe for many years now and love it. I double the recipe and fill 3 small attached loaf pans and reduce the baking time. I think the key is to check it closely for doneness near the end to prevent it from drying out as that can happen in a flash when you’re baking with alternative ingredients. If you’re careful this way, it will be moist. I then freeze each loaf and remove one loaf at a time, slice it and then refreeze for future use. It is delicious as is or with whipped cream &/or fruit on the side. This is an especially good recipe to have on hand and use this time of year because we have a seemingly endless supply of zucchinis from our garden. I will have to take a look at your other zucchini cake recipes as it’s always nice to change things up once in a while. Thanks for your wonderful recipes. And, Shana Tova to you and family,
Phyllis
Elana says
Phyllis, I’m so happy you are enjoying this recipe! Shana tova to you and yours :-)
Linda Rasbach says
Been making this bread and love it BUT it falls apart when its cut and is crumbly. Am i doing something wrong?
Elana says
Linda, make sure to use the ingredients and brands I link to for best results. Also, this will not work with egg substitutes :-)
Jenny says
I love this recipe! So many of your recipes are a staple in our home, thank you! I like the consistency better when I divide evenly into 12 silicone muffin molds. It also freezes better. I discovered today, (unable to grate zucchini due to tennis elbow) that you can mix everything according to your directions, then carefully swap out the mixing blade for the grater attachment. I transferred to a bowl and folded the zucchini in by hand. Thanks again!
Elana says
Jenny, thanks so much for letting me know you love this recipe!
Elizabeth A Blase says
This chocolate zucchini bread is super easy to make and is unbelievably delicious and moist!! It remains moist until the last bite, but it doesn’t take very long for that final bite to come around because EVERYONE, Celiac or not, just loves it.
My taste buds remember the delicious flavor so often that I end up making it…often :-) You will never regret trying this recipe! (Hint: buy a good quality cocoa/cacao powder)
BTW: As a person with multiple food allergies, Elana’s recipes are a godsend. I can eat every recipe in her Almond Flour Cookbook and non-Celiac friends enjoy them just as much. Other Celiac/GF recipes use multiple flours with multiple additives, some of which I can’t tolerate. So…..Thank You So Much, Elana!!
Elizabeth A Blase says
OOH – as someone else mentioned, I also leave out the stevia.
Elana says
Elizabeth, I am so HAPPY to hear that you and yours LOVE this recipe! Also thrilled that you can eat everything In my first book. Take good care and I hope you’ll keep me posted on how you’re doing :-)
Mary says
It looks so good.
I was wondering if I could substitute swerve for the honey?
Elana says
Mary, feel free to experiment and LMK if it works :-)
N says
I sub liquid sweetners with liquid allulose.
I will also add some BTS or allulose granular.
Taste batter…
Then adjust if needed before baking.
N/2021
Finley Evans says
Hi, Elana! I’ve made so many of your recipes over the years and always enjoy. Just wanted to say this is my new go-to quick bread. SO delicious. Everyone in my family really loves it. I do leave out the Stevia, because for me, the honey is plenty sweet! It really is WONDERFUL. My kids even love it, and they are big on chocolate desserts!
Elana says
Finley, I’m so glad you and your family love this bread!