Month: September 2025

Making Mary’s Zucchini Bread

I just realized I had not shared my Zucchini Bread recipe yet! We’ve had enough zucchini so I’ve been able to experiment with cookies and a casserole along with how I dehydrate the zucchini shreds. You can find those articles at the following links:

https://marykisner.com/marys-zucchini-chocolate-chip-cookies/; https://marykisner.com/making-a-zucchini-cornbread-casserole/; and https://marykisner.com/dehydrating-zucchini-shreds/.

Now that the zucchini plants are not producing so much, it was time to use up all the zucchini sitting around my kitchen. I put several of the small, misshapen ones in the compost bin. I saved two smaller ones and shredded the rest.

I ended up with about 5 cups of shredded zucchini. I decided to make two batches of zucchini bread…which would use up 4 cups…and froze the last cup.

Making a double batch of zucchini bread made sense and it was a lot easier if I measured everything out in pairs. I wouldn’t start mixing until I had everything ready.

Here is the recipe!

First, I measured out the Baking Powder, Baking Soda and Salt.

Then, I shredded and measured out the zucchini.

I chopped the walnuts:

Here are all the prepped ingredients:

Then, I was ready to follow the instructions.

  1. In a large mixing bowl whisk the eggs, oil, sugars, cinnamon, nutmeg (I did not use) and vanilla. Whisk well to break up the eggs and get everything well incorporated.
  2. Blend in the baking powder, soda and salt, so they are mixed in thoroughly, then stir in the flour.

3. When the flour is almost all incorporated, fold in the zucchini and nuts. Stop mixing as soon as there is no dry flour left and the zucchini and nuts are evenly dispersed. Do not over-mix this batter.

4. I poured the batter into 3 pans, instead of 2. I’m always concerned my oven isn’t the right temperature, so I thought these loaves could be a little smaller and get cooked through.

I let them cool in the pan about half an hour (mostly because I forgot about them!) and turned them out to continue cooling.

Result…I had three loaves of zucchini bread…delicious!

If you have questions or comments, please email me directly at maryjkisner@gmail.com.