Recipe Review Tuesday: Chocolate Chip Squash Bread
21st June, 2011 - Posted by katherine - 1 Comment
This week I had some extra squash from my CSA box that I needed to use up, and my husband had just pointed me to this great foodie blog all about using up CSA veggies/fruits, and they happened to have this delicious looking recipe for chocolate chip squash bread. The blog is “Fast Farm to Table: Cooking with CSA” and it has a lot of wonderful recipes. I know I usually like to post a vegetarian main meal dish on here on Tuesdays, but I didn’t make anything new last week that really stood out as a main meal, but this bread was fantastic. I followed the recipe carefully, except I used probably 1/2 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of milk chocolate chips. Plus, even though I thought I was well stocked on white sugar, turns out I only had 1/2 cup left and no more in the pantry, so rather than using 2 cups of white sugar, I used 1/2 cup white sugar with 1.5 cup light brown sugar. The results were amazing – one of my new favorite recipes! I didn’t take a picture, but head on over to their website to check out a picture here.
Here’s the ingredients and directions from the blog:
6 T cocoa powder
2 T vegetable oil
2 c sugar
1 c vegetable oil
3 eggs
2 c grated summer squash, unpeeled, and I like to grate it coarsely so the color and texture stays evident
1 t vanilla
2 c flour
1 t soda
1 t salt
1 t cinnamon
3/4 c chocolate chips
In a large bowl, whisk together the cocoa and 2 T vegetable oil to make a paste. Stir in sugar and 1 c vegetable oil until combined. Add eggs one at a time, blending after each addition. Stir in vanilla and squash. Sift in all the dry ingredients and stir to combine. Fold in chocolate chips. Divide into two greased 9×5 loaf pans, or whatever pans you desire. Bake at 350 until a toothpick comes out clean – about 45 minutes for loaf pans. This bread freezes very well wrapped in plastic.
Realizing I can use up my CSA contents by making baked goods may have been a not so healthy discovery, but it was a delish discovery! I will certainly be checking out this blog a lot!
Update: I made this again this weekend and here’s a pic!
1 Comment
Becky
July 11th, 2011 at 9:42 pm
YES. SO yummy! thanks for sharing! I will be making this – it’s a breakfast bread right?
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