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Zucchini Sweet Potato Bread

May 8, 2008 by Joy the Baker 93 Comments

Did you know that they sell quick bread box mixes in grocery stores!?  I think that’s so strange.  Fake flour, loads of sugar, and ultra dehydrated blueberries in a box to be mixed with water and eggs.  This concerns me… deeply.  Exactly how quick does a quick bread have to be to make it in this world?

I think homemade quick breads are dreamy.  With enough creativity and guts, you can throw just about anything into a quick bread and call it delicious.  This go around I tried zucchini and sweet potato.  The combination produced a full and unique flavor:  not too heavy on the zucchini or sweet potato flavors.  And of course, because I’m me, I also loaded the bread with spices, nuts and cranberries.  You can modify if to your taste, I make room for that in the recipe.  Because, yes, I care.

What’s your favorite kind of quick bread?  If you say the boxed kind, I swear, I’ll scream.

Zucchini Sweet Potato Bread

adapted from Bon Appetit Magazine,  November 1992

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2 cups all-purpose flour (I used 1 cup all-purpose and 1 cup whole wheat flour)

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon cloves (the nutmeg and the cloves are optional, you’ll just have a less spicy bread)

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

2 cups sugar (I used 1 cup granulated sugar and 1 cup brown sugar)

3/4 cup vegetable oil (I used 1/2 cup oil and 1/4 cup apple sauce.  Less fat.)

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cup grated zucchini

1 1/2 cup peeled and grated sweet potato

1 cup chopped walnuts

1/2 cup dried cranberries (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Butter and flour a 9x5x3- inch loaf pan and set aside.  Sift the first 7 ingredients into a medium sized bowl.  In a seperate, large bowl, beat the sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla extract.  Mix in the zucchini and sweet potato.  Add the dry ingredients and stir just to combine.  Fold in the nuts and cranberries and stir well.

Transfer batter to prepared pan.  Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, about 1 hour and 20 minutes.  Cool bread in pan on a rack for 15 minutes.  Loosen the edges of the bread with a butter knife and turn out on a rack to cool completely.  Can be prepared 1 day in advance.  Wrap in foil and keep at room temperature.

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  1. Sandra McCollin

    April 27, 2020 at 5:05 am

    I made this bread for Thanksgiving many years ago and it was a big hit. It is delicious

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  2. Jerry De Courtney Odle

    December 21, 2017 at 7:09 am

    I have made this bread more than 8 times now and every time it is just great. All the family and our friends just love it. Thanks you very much for this excellent recipe

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  3. Tiffany

    July 9, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    This has just become my new favorite quick bread recipe – oh my, this is delicious!! I did add a tsp of dark rum (it was a good addition in the dark n stormy banana bread that I thought it might do well in this too), and subbed chocolate chips for the cranberries, and this bread came out bomb! I’m going to go finish off the entire loaf right now :)

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