Honey Zucchini Bread With Almond Flour

This honey zucchini bread is a delicious, healthy, and gluten-free way to enjoy everyone’s favorite end-of-summer treat.

This honey zucchini bread really checks all the boxes. It’s moist, dense, lightly sweet, and flavored with warm, comforting spices. Whether you’re gluten-free, vegan, low-refined-sugar, low-acid, or just trying to sub in healthier choices without sacrificing flavor, this late-summer recipe will have you covered. Everyone deserves a slice of delicious zucchini bread at this time of year, and following a special diet shouldn’t cause you to miss out on this simple seasonal joy. I’ve been baking a lot with raw honey and almond flour this year, and I have to say that some of the things that I’ve made have actually been even better than traditional recipes. I think this super-moist and flavorful zucchini bread might be one of them. This is the perfect thing to keep in your freezer for quick breakfasts, a fancy brunch, or for healthy afternoon treats with a cup of tea. If your garden is overflowing with zucchini right now, this zucchini recipe should be at the top of your list!

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Ingredients Needed for the Healthy Zucchini Bread

You’ll need:

• Zucchini from the garden or the farmer’s market, grated
• Extra fine almond flour
• Baking soda
• Cinnamon
• Nutmeg
• Ground cloves
• Ginger
• Coarse sea salt
• Raw honey
• Unsweetened applesauce
• Eggs

If you’d like this recipe to be fully vegan, you can definitely use an egg substitute instead. Consider trying my chia seed egg replacer trick for an extra little healthy boost. Regular honey can be substituted for raw honey if that’s what you have in your cabinet right now.

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Method for Preparing Almond Flour Zucchini Bread With Raw Honey

The method for preparing healthy, honey-sweetened recipes like this is just slightly different from how you would put together the batter for a traditional quick bread recipe. Begin by combining all the dry ingredients in a medium-sized bowl, including the almond flour, baking soda, spices, and salt.

In a large mixing bowl, or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, combine the honey and eggs. Whisk them together thoroughly until you have a smooth, even mixture with a bit of air in it. This should take about one to two minutes. Next, add the applesauce and the grated zucchini and mix until everything is combined.

Add the dry ingredients to the zucchini mixture and stir until the flour mixture is fully incorporated into the wet ingredients.

Carefully pour the mixture into a loaf pan lined with parchment paper, using a rubber spatula to scrape down the sides of the bowl as you go.

I like to use ceramic loaf pans like these because of their superior non-stick abilities, and the fact that they’re so easy to clean, but a metal baking tin, or a glass baking dish will work just fine, too.

Bake at 350° for about one hour and ten minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of the loaf comes out clean.

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Allow the zucchini bread to cool completely in the pan on a wire rack, or even in the refrigerator overnight before removing it from the baking dish and slicing.

Enjoy this treat within a few days, or freeze it to keep it for later.

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Zucchini Bread Variations to Try

 

Although this recipe is perfect on its own, especially if you toast a slice of this zucchini bread and enjoy it with a little melted butter, it’s also a great base for all your creative additions.

Try adding chopped walnuts or pecan pieces to make a zucchini nut bread, or you could add dried fruit like raisins, cranberries, or sliced, dried apricots to make it a healthy, extra-sweet treat.

You can also combine shredded carrot with the shredded zucchini for an unexpected, vegetable-filled snack cake that will satisfy any sweet tooth.

And, of course, chocolate chips or carob chips are always welcome.

Here’s the full printable recipe. Print it out to add to your recipe binder, or display it on your tablet as you cook. Don’t forget to pin this recipe to Pinterest so you remember it for next year as well!

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