Top 14 Zucchini Bread and Cake Recipes

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Zucchini makes a fabulous side dish vegetable, and it's a great addition to soups, stews, pasta sauces, and roasted vegetable medleys. Sweet zucchini bread and cakes are very popular as well. Shredded zucchini keeps the quick bread, cakes, and muffins moist while the flecks of green peel add color and texture. For even more color, you could combine finely shredded carrots with the shredded zucchini.

If you have an abundance of zucchini, consider shredding it and storing one-cup portions in small freezer bags. You can make zucchini bread, cakes, muffins, and cookies any time of the year.

Enjoy these delicious and popular zucchini bread and zucchini cake recipes, including zucchini bread with nuts, easy zucchini cake, zucchini muffins, and more.

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Orange-Cranberry Zucchini Bread

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This flavorful zucchini bread is super moist, and it has excellent texture. Sour cream, dried cranberries, orange zest, and chopped nuts make it extra special.
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Spiced Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread

The Spruce / Diana Rattray

This wheat zucchini bread has extra texture and fiber from the whole wheat flour, and applesauce makes it moist and flavorful. This recipe makes one loaf of zucchini bread.
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Classic Zucchini Bread

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This recipe makes two loaves of spiced zucchini nut bread. Enjoy one loaf now and freeze the other one for later!
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Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

The Spruce Eats / Kristina Vanni

In between cake and bread, this moist chocolate chip zucchini bread is delightful served for brunch, dessert, or as a sweet snack. It's easy to make and keeps well in an airtight container.

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Cheesy Zucchini Bread

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Cornbread gets a delicious summer squash twist with this cheesy zucchini bread recipe. Dehydrated and shredded zucchini, cornmeal, buttermilk, sharp cheddar cheese, garlic, and rosemary create a flavorful, savory bread. Serve it for breakfast, dinner, at a barbecue, or as a tasty snack.
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Easy Chocolate Zucchini Cake

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A cake mix makes this zucchini cake a snap to prepare. Shredded zucchini makes the cake moist, while chocolate chips and walnuts add flavor and texture.
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Easy Zucchini Carrot Cake

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Wow your friends and family with this irresistible zucchini carrot cake. Top it off with cream cheese frosting or finish it with a light dusting of powdered sugar.
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Zucchini Oatmeal Cake

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This is a dense, moist, flavorful cake, and it's delicious with a cream cheese glaze. Bake this in a 10 or 12-cup Bundt cake pan or a 9x13x2-inch pan.

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Zucchini Muffins

The Spruce / Dorling Kindersley

These moist zucchini muffins include shredded carrots, spices, and optional chopped nuts.
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Lemon Zucchini Bread

Elaine Lemm

Tender and perfectly sweet lemon zucchini bread is perfect with tea or coffee. Fresh lemon zest and juice are added to the batter, and a lemon syrup is soaked into the bread for more flavor and moisture.
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Chocolate Zucchini Cake

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This zucchini cake is made from scratch with buttermilk and vegetable oil. A light dusting of confectioners' sugar is all you need to top the cake, but feel free to add a basic vanilla cake glaze.
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Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread

Elaine Lemm

This oh-so-chocolatey zucchini bread is good for brunch, a sweet snack, or a light dessert. With cocoa and chocolate chips in the batter, it'll satisfy any chocolate lover.

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Zucchini Cookies

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These zucchini drop cookies are flavored with lemon zest, and they're finished with a lemon glaze. Feel free to change the flavoring to 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract and add some chocolate chips to the cookies.
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Barb's Zucchini Cake

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Barb's zucchini cake is a one-layer rectangular cake. The cake would be fabulous with a cream cheese frosting or vanilla glaze. Or even easier, sift confectioners' sugar over the cooled cake.