Need a perfect summer squash recipe using zucchini? Let’s bake a batch of Sedona Eye Zucchini Bread with a loaf for you and one to give or freeze for later!
Local farmer’s markets and produce stands are brimming with fresh squash! Support local farmers!
A fun afternoon drive to Camp Verde passes by many Verde Valley produce stands! Corn, tomatoes and squash are at peak of season!
Get ready! Bake!
Check your cupboards and assemble ingredients. Prepare loaf pans and set out a wire rack for cooling. Preheat oven!
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups white sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups grated zucchini
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 cup sour cream
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9 x 5 inch loaf pans.
- Beat together eggs, sugar, and oil. Blend in the grated zucchini, and then the sour cream. Mix in the flour, baking powder, soda, and cinnamon. Stir in chocolate. Pour batter into prepared pans.
- Bake for 80 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
Hint from AR: Substitute chocolate covered raisins for chocolate chips.
Send your recipes to our Old School Baker, Joe Lemmon, Editor@SedonaEye.com! Joe will bake your recipe and if it passes his taste test, you might find your recipe on Sedona Eye. Congrats to Ivahlyn Johnson, Gilbert AZ for this zucchini bread recipe and to Abby for the “hint”. Support your local growers and farmers markets!
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what fun to include recipes. When recipes call for vegetable oil in large quantities, substitute thick applesauce instead. Does anybody else do this? It should be okay in this recipe.
ST.com Editor’s note: Abby sent an email suggesting that raisins could be substituted for the chocolate chips so we added her comment beneath the recipe.
Happy Autumn,
Welcome all locavores. Share The Harvest Day at the Verde Valley Farmers’ Market. Please post as a PSA or just for your general information.
What : Share the Harvest Day at the Verde Valley Farmers’ Market
Purpose : As a customer, please donate non perishable food items / money at the Market, that will benefit the Sedona Community Food Bank. Our growers will then provide fresh produce for the Food Bank.
When : Saturday, September 24th, 2011 8:00 am until 12:00 noon
Where : Town Ramada, next to Fort Verde State Park, On Hollamon off of Main Street, Camp Verde, AZ.
The Verde Valley Farmers ’Market offers fresh seasonal produce grown within 50 miles of Camp Verde. Remember, Buy Local / Eat Fresh. Thanks for supporting our Market.