Growing up I pretty much lived at my grandmas house. It was my favorite place to be! I remember always sitting up on the counter baking all the breads, make ahead pies, canning all the vegetables and picking all the raspberries I could eat (then adding cream and sugar of course!!) Going out to the farm in the summer was the best time!
This recipe is began as your traditional zucchini bread and I have over time transformed it into a few variations to make it more exciting and that way we have different options to eat throughout the year.
The recipe is Doubled and I get 3 large loaves from this, its really easy to 1/2 if needed. I just prefer while i'm already baking to knock out as much as possible!
Snickerdoodle Zuchinni Bread
6 Large Eggs
3 cups of sugar
1 cup of cold pressed coconut oil melted*
1 cup of unsweetened apple sauce**
2 tsp Vanilla extract
6 cups of all purposed flour
1 TBSP cinnamon
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
5 cups shredded zuchinni
Topping
1 cup sugar
1 TBSP cinnamon
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2. Spray 3 Large bread pans
4. Beat eggs
5. Add in sugar, oil, applesauce and vanilla to eggs. Beat until lighter in color
6. Put all your dry ingredients into a separate large bowl and whisk together
7. Add your dry ingredients to the wet. This mixture is going to get extremely thick.
8. Mix in your shredded Zucchini, this will help thin the mixture back out because zuchini has so much water in it!
9. Split 1/2 the batter amongst your 3 pans and top with your cinnamon sugar mixture.
10.Add the remaining batter to the pans. Top With the remaining cinnamon and sugar
11. Bake for 55-65 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean an internal temp is 170 degrees.
Once it is cool you can store in a ziplock bag for a few days on the counter. It also freezes great! I wrap mine in a layer of seran wrap, then a layer of tin foil. Mark it with what it is and through it in the freezer!
*Substitutions*
*Coconut oil- you can use any oil you'd like here I just prefer the flavor and that coconut oil is healthier.
**Apple sauce- If you don't have applesauce, double the oil from 1 cup to 2 cups and add an additional 1/2 cup of sugar.
I will at times do a loaf or two of the Snickerdoodle. Once I have the snickerdoodle ones done, I will Add chocolate chips to the remaining batter. Pour it into the pan and top with chocolate chips. Same batter two variations!
***Additional fun tip- We use our homemade vanilla! My favorite is using my bottle which is made from Captain Morgan Rum it gives this bread just a little extra something!
To make the Vanilla
I buy 1 gallon of captain morgan and add in 30 vanilla beans ( I buy them from Amazon). It has to sit for 4-6 months but it is totally worth it and it lasts forever!
You can most definitely get a smaller bottle and make it on a smaller scale!