Low-Carb Paleo Chocolate Zucchini Bread is perfect for when your garden is exploding with zucchini! This easy paleo bread also keeps all of the zucchini that emerges from your CSA share under control.
The best thing about Low-Carb Paleo Chocolate Zucchini Bread is that it’s so delicious your friends will gobble it up without knowing it’s healthy! It’s also super easy to make. Lots of readers tell me that they turn this into a one-bowl recipe. They simply mix up all the ingredients in the food processor, then grate the zucchini right into the batter.
One of the healthy ingredients that gives this bread a moist, rich texture is coconut oil. Studies have shown that in addition to numerous other health benefits, coconut oil can help our immune systems mount resistance to viruses.
Sweetened with honey and a bit of vanilla stevia, Low-Carb Paleo Chocolate Zucchini Bread makes an excellent healthy snack for kids and is equally delicious for dessert with a cup of my low-carb Iced Ginger Chai.
To store this low-carb bread, wrap in a paper towel, seal in a plastic bag, and refrigerate for up to 1 week.
My family absolutely loves this Low-Carb Paleo Chocolate Zucchini Bread! If you’re following a low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet, check out my Keto Diet Recipes page. If you need macros, I provide them for the recipes in all of my books, but my New York Times best selling book, Paleo Cooking from Elana’s Pantry is the best place to start, with a ton of low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) recipes. In fact, Barnes & Noble has it in their system as a Keto Cookbook! Check out all of the low-carb recipes and get the macros here!
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 of this prolific produce:
This post is an oldie but goodie from the archives, I first published this recipe in 2013.
Comments
326 responses to “Low-Carb Paleo Chocolate Zucchini Bread”
I made this bread without the stevia, because I didn’t have any. It turned out beautifully. To my taste, the honey was enough sweetness on it’s own.
Pam, thanks for letting me know this turned out beautifully!
I have a question – recipe shows use of honey which on a low carb Keto diet is not a recommended sweetener since it higher on the glycemic index. Can you please explain why it’s okay in this recipe.
Sorry if you already explained this but I didn’t see, trying to understand & will appreciate any answer you can give. Thank you!
Vernie, thanks for your comment! This recipe is not listed on my Keto Diet Recipes page it is on my Low-Carb Recipes page:
https://elanaspantry.com/low-carb-diet/
Have a wonderful day!
Elana
I would like to petition you, and the Food Network and the Cooking Channel, that you be hired to do a TV show on Gluten Free Baking! Have you ever considered doing that? Your recipes are fantastic and I know, with the growing population that eats gluten free, that if you did this, the show would be a hit! My goodness, if they can have a show about eating very non-healthy stuff at the ‘Carnival Eats’, they could do a show on healthy cooking! Think about it…!
This zucchini bread is fantastic!
Dr. Davis, thanks for letting me know this bread is fantastic and for your kind words about getting me onto the Food network!
Elana,
Can your zucchini bread be made using a substitute for the eggs? Two children have egg allergy.
When a recipe calls for egg what do you use as a substitute?
Thanks, Elizabeth
Elizabeth, I haven’t had any luck with egg substitutes in my baked goods recipes. I do have one egg-free cupcake recipe in book my second book, Gluten-Free Cupcakes:
https://amzn.to/1XWy2n7
And here’s a link to my Egg-Free Recipes page on the website for you and your little ones:
https://elanaspantry.com/diets/egg-free/
Enjoy!
Elana
Elana, thank you for your quick response!
I love your website and recipes and appreciate all your work and research.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth, you’re very welcome! It’s my pleasure to help :-)
Are you talking about store bought egg substitute or can you use a “flax egg”?
Jennifer, I haven’t had any success with any type of egg substitutes in my recipes :-)
I second that Dr. Davis! I would watch your show!
As this bread bakes in the oven, Elana, I want to say thank you. Your blog has been so much help to me and friends. I come to your site especially when company comes over who are gluten-free. One of the things I love is that your recipes are always yummy, even for those who eat sugar and white flour and therefore their palates aren’t adjusted to whole foods. I have taken you, and your blog so much for granted. Sorry about that. Here is a special thank you to you from the bottom of my heart and healthier gut (partly due because of your work :)
Heather, thanks for your sweet words about a potential TV show! I’m so happy to hear you come to my site when company comes over because my recipes are always enjoyed by everyone! And thanks finally for your incredible gratitude, so glad to be on this healing journey with you :-)
GOOD JOB… LOOKS TASTY BREAD…
Thanks Shelly!
Hi Elana! Can I substitute olive oil? If so, how much? 1 to 1? I don’t like the taste of coconut oil, and I’ve tried to get used to it several times. Thanks!
Najia, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Thank you dear Elana for your FREE and EASY keto recipes. I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia with possible MS last year, after ten plus years of seriously declining health. Your website throughout has been heaven-sent and is now literally indispensable at a daily level as I embark on the Keto Diet at last. Familiar with the diet for years, I decided to bite the bullet this past winter in light of my late diagnosis discoveries (MS was ruled out only because I was in too much physical pain to continue the EKG, which was halted by hospital personnel mid-treatment, since my body could not handle even the diagnosis process). I’ve appreciated your work silently for at least five years, but I recently came across some most insensitive comments, which berate you for not providing “nutritional information.” This moved me to let you know that there are plenty of us who truly understand and truly appreciate. Whomever commented those things clearly does not understand the “spoons theory” of chronic illness. One does what one can, when one can. For one’s own family. Then others. YOU clearly are doing both, with grace. Thank you.
Christine, your comment brought tears to my eyes for so many reasons. Thanks for your incredibly kind words and for being on this healing journey with me. I hope you’ll keep me posted on how you’re doing and I’m sending you all my love :-)
Hello Elana,
I have made this several times this summer and we all really enjoy it. I double the recipe and bake in a 9 x 5 pan. I also use vanilla extract and leave the stevia out. One time I added chocolate chips, as well. I love how you don’t have to squeeze the moisture from the zucchini!
I planted a zucchini plant for the first time, this year and was looking forward to home grown zucchinis. Unfortunately, my plant flowered lots but never produced a zucchini.
Thanks for all the effort you put into developing healthy, delicious and easy recipes that everyone loves.
Christine, I know! I love that this recipe is so easy and that there is no squeezing of zucchini involved like in other recipes. So happy to hear that you are really enjoying it :-)
Since I’m not a huge chocolate fan, do you think I could substitute the cocoa powder with another 1/4 cup of almond flour to make sure the consistency works?
Mia, I haven’t tried that so not sure. Here’s a link to my Low-Carb Zucchini Bread recipe for you, no chocolate :-)
https://elanaspantry.com/low-carb-zucchini-bread/
Enjoy!
Elana
Thank you Elana!
Mia, you’re welcome!
This is for the person who planted the zucchini plant and didn’t get any zucchini. You may not know that like lots of other plants, Zucchini plants have male and female. If you plant flowered, and the blooms died and fell off, it is likely they had no male to “help them out” lol I know it’s hard to swallow that in some cases the male species is needed, but it’s true.
Check it out online. Just type in your question and you will get some answers. Try planting at least 4 plants to assure you have both male and female in the mix. I know, sounds crazy, but even at that you may still not get zucchini. I planted several last year and only got a few. This year, planted again, in a row and got lots of zucchini. GOOD LUCK
Becky, thanks for your awesome comment!
Actually, the plants produce both Male and female flowers. Lack of pollinators could be a reason, or mineral deficiency in the garden. P.S. God bless the men out there! You are very much needed and valued!
I’ve always loved the cinnamon bun muffins but the recipe doesn’t pop up and nothing happened when I clicked the comments which is why I’m writing here. I like the one apple cinnamon one I have in your cookbook but was hoping to make the cinnamon bun one as well. Is that recipe unavailable? Thank you!
Becky, thanks for your comment! Here’s that link for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/cinnamon-bun-muffins/
Enjoy!
Elana
I made this recipe for the first time this week. It was delicious! I actually made muffins with it, and froze them in a plastic bag. I can grab one in the mornings when I am tight on time, or enjoy one in the afternoons if I need a snack between lunch and dinner. Thank you sharing the recipe!
Aline, you’re very welcome! I’m so glad to hear this bread is delicious :-)
WOW, this is just the question I have, about the muffins! Thanks so much!! Sounds like a perfect treat for my “paleo” son and daughter-in-law…..
Thanks Regina!
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