Zucchini bread is simple to make and tastes very delicious. The smell of freshly baked zucchini bread will fill your home with happiness. It tastes sweet and savory all at once. You can eat it fresh out of the oven. If you pull it out of the refrigerator, place it in the toaster for a couple of minutes and put a little pat of butter on it before you bite into this tasty bread. If you grow your own zucchini in the garden, you can shred them and freeze them in bags with two cups in each bag. This makes it so easy to pull zucchini out of the freezer and make zucchini bread fresh and warm all year round. Kids love zucchini bread and serving this is a great way to sneak vegetables into their diet. This is a traditional zucchini bread recipe. There are lighter versions which use apple sauce as a substitute for some of the sugar. Here is a YouTube video with instructions on how to make a vegan version of zucchini bread if that is more your style.

Simple zucchini bread:

1 ½ C. flour

1 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp. salt

½ tsp baking soda

1/8 tsp. baking powder

½ C. canola oil

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

1 C. sugar

1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract

2 C. zucchini, coarsely grated