Easy Zucchini Bread Always popular, zucchini bread is one of easiest recipes you can make. Enjoy this moist, flavorful quick bread for breakfast, a snack, or even dessert. Customize simple zucchini recipes with your favorite nuts, spices, or dried fruits.
Elise founded Simply Recipes in 2003 and led the site until 2019. She has an MA in Food Research from Stanford University. Always popular, zucchini bread is one of easiest recipes you can make. I still remember the first time I encountered zucchini bread as a teenager. I had a hard time getting my mind around the concept. At the time, zucchini was something my mom made me eat, and not anything you would bake into something sweet.
Fortunately, the pathway into my naturally resistant-to-new-foods teenage mind had already been cut with carrot cake. Heck, if you could get something that good out of carrots, why not zucchini? After one bite, I was sold forever. Grated zucchini, mixed into the batter, brings moisture and tender texture to what is essentially a spice cake. This is a favorite, tried-and-true zucchini bread recipe. It’s basically our zucchini muffin recipe in a bread form. It’s a standard quick bread recipe that starts with grated zucchini, about 3 to 4 cups of it.