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.
Jennifer Carter says
I come back to these every summer. Last summer my 7 month old ate this like it was going out of style, I hope the tiny human enjoys them as much this year. Thank you for making recipes that become family traditions. Substitutions: agave to honey, little sugar for stevia cause that is what I have on hand.
Elana says
Jennifer, you’re welcome! And I’m so honored to be a part of your family traditions :-)
Donna Gollenberg says
Made these into cupcakes last night. So rich and chocolate-y. Honestly, they tasted like chocolate cake. Cooked them 18 minutes and it made 9 medium cupcakes. I did not have vanilla stevia, so I still used 1/4 tsp of vanilla and about 4 drops of liquid stevia. Very quick and easy. Thanks, Elana!
Elana says
Donna, so glad you enjoyed!
Bridget says
Family favorite!! Made muffins and baked them for 20 mins. Also I substituted Stevia because I didn’t have any with light brown sugar and added 1/8 cup of chocolate chips. Kids LOVED them. Thank you!!
Elana says
You’re very welcome Bridget :-)
Amy says
Hi Elana,
My son can’t have nuts…have you ever tried with rice flour?
Elana says
Hi Amy, I haven’t had rice since the year 2001, when I went grain-free, so I’m not much help with that! Here’s a link to my nut-free recipes that might work for your son:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/nut-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Kathleen Amico says
Try a mixture of coconut & buckwheat flour.
Buckwheat is NOT a grain & bakes VERY WELL. I
use Buckwheat flour in cookies, bars, pancakes & all
baked goods along with coconut & almond flours.
Robin Washington says
Thank you!!! I will try it with your suggestion! ?
Melissa says
Does anyone know the calorie value per slice on this??
Elana says
Melissa, for more on that please go here:
https://elanaspantry.com/nutrition-information/
Have a great day!
Elana
Jill says
DELICIOUS!!!! I’d run out of honey and don’t have stevia and so used 3/4 cup dark brown sugar as replacement w a little coconut yoghurt to make up the wetness of honey. I also added say 1/4 cup choc bits w zucchini. So rich, moist and delicious. This will definitely be a new go to – next time with honey! Thanks so much!
Elana says
Jill, glad to hear this is your go-to bread recipe!
Linda says
Made these today one and a half times the recipe, and had to add in some carrots as I didn’t have enough zucchini. Also left out the honey and subbed erythritol and some water and made cupcakes. They turned out just awesome!!! Kids love them too…AND they watched me make them, so they know what went in ;)
Elana says
Linda, so glad to hear this was awesome!
Joan says
I have made this recipe many times (adjusted as cupcakes). Zucchini season is over and now I have a ton of beets. I also made your beet chocolate tort recipe. It’s beet season and I’ve got a ton of beets. Thinking of somehow adapting this zucchini bread recipe… thoughts? I don’t expect you to test it but would appreciate any insight.
Linda says
I’ve used Beetroot before in this recipe ( it’s very adaptable! ) I found using 1/2c rather than 3/4 works best, and you may need to increase the chocolate if your beets are less sweet and more ” earthy ” as sometimes the earthy flavour comes through strongly. I’ve also done beets and added sugar free chocolate melts 1/4c ( buttons or chips ) and its stunning!
Susan Prentice says
“Gourmand” is French, meaning “Fond of good food, fond of eating well; food lover” – to ‘gourmandize’ something (although a made up word, taking a French root and treating it like an English verb!) would be to make it more delectable for a foodie. “Gourmet” is closely related, meaning “a connoisseur of good food; a person with a discerning palate.” I think your tester was trying to say that you’ve made something ordinarily quite plain and made it delicious!,
Elana says
Thanks Susan!
Lauren says
Yes! I use my Thermomix and weighed in the almonds, made it into flour then took them out and re measured in- 200g whole almonds seem to make it work.