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Friday, June 8, 2012

Eat your vegetables! Carrot-Zucchini Bread

I cannot be the only mother on the planet who has difficulty getting her kids to eat their vegetables!  I am not above hiding veggies in food.  I just had to share this recipe for zucchini/carrot bread that I found on pinterest because my kids gobbled it up - vegetables and all!!  Even Graham (my super-picky kiddo) loved it.  He kept asking for more "bikini bread"!!


Carrot-Zucchini Bread
  •  1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 tsp ground ginger
  • 3/4 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/8 tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 tsp kosher or sea salt
  • 1/4 cup candied ginger, optional (I omitted this)
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1/2 cup canola oil (I used 1/4 cup canola oil and 1/4 cup applesauce)
  • 1/2 cup plus 2 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 cup coarsely grated carrots
  • 1/2 cup coarsely grated zucchini




Preheat oven to 325F.  Grease your loaf pan.  In a large bowl, mix eggs, oil (& applesauce), sugar and vanilla.  Stir in carrots and zucchini.


Mix remaining dry ingredients together and slowly add to large bowl. Stir/fold until just blended. Pour mixture into loaf pan.



  Bake about 1 hour, until firm and toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let cool completely and enjoy!!  Next time I will double this because it disappeared WAY too fast!







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