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.
Sarah says
Just made this, hot out of the oven. Soooo delicious! I omitted the stevia because my daughter is allergic, but added a Tbsp. of vanilla. It’s plenty sweet with the honey in my opinion. Instead of grating the zuc, I juiced six of them and used the leftover pulp, which was just enough since I had doubled your recipe to make it in a large loaf pan. (Leftover zuc juice is nice when mixed with apple juice and a slice or two of lemon juice.) Excellent recipe, will definitely make it again!
Elana says
Sarah, thanks for letting us know this is an excellent recipe!
Jan says
I seem to be allergic to Almonds…which alot of the Paleo “Baking” recipes call for Almond Flour. I guess I can just try it and see how it turns out with Gluten free flour instead.
QueenJellyBean says
Jan – you may want to try to sub another kind of nut flour, or nut butter for the almond flour. Plain GF flour is very dry, whereas almond and other nut flours are composed of 50% fat. GF flour is almost fat free. If you can have sunflower seed butter, I’d try 1 1/4 cups of that in this recipe.
Tessa says
I am quite allergic to almonds, but hazelnuts don’t seem to bother me, so I have been using that to replace almond flour. Someone else on here mentioned sunflower seed flour. I would imagine that would be similar too- I’ll have to try it!
Joan Cortez says
I made the chocolate zuchinni bread tonight. It was incredible how great it tasted. My whole family loved it.
Elana says
Joan, thanks for letting us know your whole family loved this bread!
Lulu Lime says
Awesome recipe. I used a regular sized loaf pan and it was fine. I baked it on the BBQ, because it was too hot to have the oven on (no AC here).
Elana says
Lulu Lime, so great to hear this recipe was awesome!
Sarah says
Just wanting to know if anyone has tried doubling and making it in a regular-sized loaf pan…please post if so!
If not…perhaps I’ll be the first to try. :) Can’t wait; I love chocolate-zucchini concoctions, and this comes just as a popular local stand unrolls their famous(wheat-filled) choc zucchini cake – I feel saved!
JaneM says
I just did that tonight. Doubled the amount and baked for almost an hour. Came out great
Kelly says
I just doubled it and baked in a 9 x 5 pan for 35 minutes. It’s cooling now and looks like it will be just fine!
The Healthy Apple says
This sounds amazing Elana! I can’t wait to make this over the weekend. Thank you!!
Elana says
You’re welcome!
Shelley says
This looks delicious! Has anyone tried a substitute for the eggs? I typically replace with applesauce or Ener-G egg replacer depending on the recipe. We can’t replace with a seed (like flax) because of allergies.
Elana says
Shelley, I haven’t tried that. Here’s a link to my Egg-Free Recipes page for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/egg-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Kelley says
Elana, I just made this today and it was amazing! I made one minor substitution (maple syrup for the honey). It tastes more like a brownie than bread. Definitely saving this recipe!
Elana says
Kelley, so great to hear this was amazing!
Liz says
Just made this recipe. Delicious! Made mini-muffins instead of a loaf and they turned out great.
Elena says
How long did you bake them in mini-muffin pans?? Also, did you use liners or just put them right in the pan?? And last question (sorry for the barrage of questions), if you put them right in the pan, what did you use to grease them? I’ve tried using just butter, but everything seems to stick when I go that route… would coconut oil work?
Leslie Thomas says
I recommend using the Beyond Gourmet mini unbleached baking cups (they also make full sized ones). They work great & you don’t need to grease anything.
Stéphanie says
Dear Elana
I’ve been following your website for a few month and I really love it! I have no particular health issue but I just feel terrific (and lose weight) when I eat sugar and gluten free.
I’m French, and that word “gormandize” comes from the French “gourmandise” which could mean greediness but also a delicious treat. When you say something is a real ” gourmandise” you obviously pay a great compliment to the cook!
Elana says
Thanks so much Stephanie!