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

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.

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

Name: Zucchini Applesauce Bread
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 2
Ingredients: 3 eggs; 1/2 cup vegetable oil; 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce; 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

A moist Zucchini Bread recipe that substitutes half of the oil for applesauce making it healthier and more flavorful.

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cook Time 50 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 5 minutes

Ingredients

3 eggs
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
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.

Enjoy!

Julia

Comments

Liz says
October 28, 2013 at 10:47 am

Thank you for the nice recipe.

Stefanie @ Sarcastic Cooking says
October 28, 2013 at 8:09 pm

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.
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- Julia says
  October 28, 2013 at 8:48 pm
  
  Haha! Love that. Sounds like something I would have done!
  
Alecia says
October 29, 2013 at 12:41 pm

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

- Julia says
  October 29, 2013 at 5:32 pm
  
  Thanks Alecia!
  
jessica@stuckonsweet says
October 29, 2013 at 4:53 pm

Perfect for the Fall and love the memories – it’s fun to look back! 🙂
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- Julia says
  October 29, 2013 at 5:31 pm
  
  Thanks Jess–it is perfect for fall! I love thinking about my childhood and cooking with my Mom!
  
MEgan {Country Cleaver} says
November 1, 2013 at 10:07 am

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!!

jessica says
May 7, 2014 at 12:41 pm

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.

- Julia says
  May 7, 2014 at 1:03 pm
  
  Great idea! Thanks for sharing what you do–I love hearing these type of ideas.
  
EL Mehdi says
October 21, 2018 at 1:55 am

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