Zucchini applesauce bread is a delicious quick bread, made with garden zucchini and crisp apples. The perfect breakfast treat or afternoon snack, this easy quick bread recipe produces moist, tender zucchini bread, packed with the flavors of fall.

Cooking with my Mom was one of my favorite things to do as a child and still today as an adult.  As kids, my sisters and I would always help my Mom make dinner, bake cookies or bread.  Zucchini bread was one of my favorite things to make with her—I just loved the way it tasted—moist, and sweet and perfect with a warm cup of tea or for breakfast. This Zucchini Applesauce Bread is everything I have always loved about zucchini bread.

Zucchini Applesauce Bread
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Zucchini Applesauce Bread

As I was making this applesauce bread, I was having flashbacks to my two sisters and I crowded around the kitchen island reading the recipe and measuring out the ingredients.  Do you have recipes that do that for you? Bring back childhood memories. I just love those kind of recipes—family treasures that you can pass on to the next generation.

This Zucchini Applesauce Bread recipe is adapted from my Mom’s zucchini bread recipe.  I decided to use some leftover crockpot applesauce that I had made last weekend and substitute that in for half of the oil. It came out wonderfully! I like the subtle apple taste that the applesauce added—not too overpowering but just enough so you can taste it.

Zucchinin Applesauce Bread recipe from A Cedar Spoon

My son loves to snack on zucchini applesauce bread, and it freezes beautifully, so I always freeze one loaf so that we can enjoy it weeks later!

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Zucchini Applesauce Bread

Prep: 15 minutes
Cook: 50 minutes
Total: 1 hour 5 minutes
Servings: 2 servings
A moist Zucchini Applesauce Bread recipe that substitutes half of the oil for applesauce making it healthier and more flavorful.
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Ingredients 

  • 3 eggs
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1/2 cup applesauce, unsweetened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2 tsp. vanilla
  • 2 cups zucchini, unpeeled and grated
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup whole wheat flour
  • 1 tsp. cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp. baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder

Instructions 

  • Preheat oven to 350.
  • In a large bowl combine all-purpose and whole wheat flours, cinnamon, baking soda and baking powder and combine.
  • In a mixer lightly beat eggs. Add oil, applesauce, sugar and vanilla and mix until well combined. Add zucchini and continue to mix.
  • On a low speed slowly add the flour mixture into the wet ingredients and mix until combined. Do you not over mix.
  • In two 9x12in greased loaf pans split the batter evenly and bake at 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes (until a knife comes out clean).
  • Let the bread completely cool before removing from the loaf pans.
  • Serve with a nice warm cup of tea.

Notes

  • I freeze one loaf for later by wrapping it in plastic wrap and then aluminum foil making sure to write the name of the bread and the date on the outside (make sure it is cool before doing this). When you are ready to eat that loaf pull it out of the freezer and let it sit out for a few hours until thawed.
  • I used whole wheat flour and all-purpose but feel free to use only all-purpose if you want.
  • I used crockpot applesauce but you can use store bought if you want.

Nutrition

Calories: 2073kcal, Carbohydrates: 352g, Protein: 31g, Fat: 65g, Saturated Fat: 11g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 34g, Monounsaturated Fat: 15g, Trans Fat: 0.4g, Cholesterol: 246mg, Sodium: 579mg, Potassium: 834mg, Fiber: 13g, Sugar: 210g, Vitamin A: 635IU, Vitamin C: 23mg, Calcium: 198mg, Iron: 10mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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Enjoy!

Julia

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I'm Julia. Wife, mom to three growing boys, lover of food. Here you will find quick & easy weeknight meal ideas, kid-friendly recipes and a few sweet treats. My roots are from the Mediterranean and many of my recipes incorporate those flavors!

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14 Comments

  1. za. rizik says:

    This looks delicious, thanks for sharing the recipe with us 🙂

  2. EL Mehdi says:

    This will be the first bread I bake in my life xD I’ll make small one but I hope it turn out great

  3. jessica says:

    Yummy; I just made a double batch of this zucchini bread. My 3-year-old loved it, too. When I do a batch of quick breads, I bake mine in wide-mouth pint mason jars, and then seal them as soon as they come out of the oven. That way, I can keep them in the cupboard for a couple of weeks without taking up freezer or fridge space. Makes for really nice sharing with friends and neighbors, too.

    1. Julia says:

      Great idea! Thanks for sharing what you do–I love hearing these type of ideas.

  4. MEgan {Country Cleaver} says:

    Baking with my mom was always one of my favorite things, too. And zucchini bread was one of our favorites to cook together. Love this!!

  5. jessica@stuckonsweet says:

    Perfect for the Fall and love the memories – it’s fun to look back! 🙂

    1. Julia says:

      Thanks Jess–it is perfect for fall! I love thinking about my childhood and cooking with my Mom!

  6. Alecia says:

    sounds delicious and I love that it is something you loved cooking with your mom. I love those special recipes.

    1. Julia says:

      Thanks Alecia!

  7. Stefanie @ Sarcastic Cooking says:

    My mom was a fricken saint to bake with us! I remember always shooting the dough or batter out of the bowl because I would put the mixer on too high and my mom would just hold my hand and keep the mixer in the batter. She wouldn’t freak out about the mess or anything. I totally think of my mom too when I see zucchini bread, soooo good. I love the addition of the applesauce.

    1. Julia says:

      Haha! Love that. Sounds like something I would have done!

  8. Liz says:

    Thank you for the nice recipe.