Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread
Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread is a tasty and easy treat when you need to make something with zucchini!
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A garden that was exploding with zucchini was definitely the motivation to make this Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread. And when I got it into my mind to make chocolate zucchini bread. I wanted the bread to be more chocolate tasting than sweet, low in sugar, and to use a lot of zucchini, and when I began looking for recipes, I didn’t find one that seemed like quite what I had in mind so I started experimenting.
If I were a little more intuitive about baking, it might not have taken me five tries to come up with the winning combination for this tasty sugar-free zucchini bread, but I figure my baking skills can only get better with all this practice! Happily I loved the final version of this bread, and if you like chocolate things that aren’t super sweet and you have zucchini that needs to be used, I hope you’ll give this recipe a try.
What ingredients do you need for this recipe?
- eggs
- Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link)(see notes)
- Grapeseed Oil (affiliate link). or other neutral flavored oil)
- vanilla
- buttermilk
- grated zucchini
- White Whole Wheat Flour (affiliate link)
- baking soda
- baking powder
- unsweetened cocoa powder
- salt
- chopped walnuts
What sweetener did I use for this sugar-free zucchini bread?
I originally made this with some brown sugar added to the sweetener. But now that I’ve discovered Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link) I’d happily use that to get that brown-sugar flavor in a sugar-free zucchini bread recipe.
Is this Zucchini Bread recipe low in carbs?
This chocolate zucchini bread does have some flour but there’s also quite a bit of zucchini so it has about 11 net carbs per slice. If you’d like a zucchini bread option with fewer carbs, check out Flourless Breakfast Muffins with Zucchini and Feta or Flourless Zucchini Muffins.
How to Make Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread:
(Scroll down for complete recipe with nutritional information.)
- In a small bowl, combine the eggs, Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link) or sweetener of your choice, oil, vanilla, and buttermilk.
- Stir in 1 1/2 cups grated zucchini.
- In a slightly bigger bowl, combine the White Whole Wheat Flour (affiliate link), baking soda, baking powder, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
- Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir just enough to combine.
- Then fold chopped walnuts into the batter.
- Pour the batter into a loaf pan that’s been sprayed with nonstick spray.
- Bake at 350F/175C for 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let bread cool in the pan, then slice and serve.
More Baking with Zucchini:
Zucchini Bread with Blueberries
Savory Zucchini Muffins with Green Chiles
Flourless Breakfast Muffins with Zucchini and Feta
Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread
This Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread is a good treat to make when you have extra zucchini!
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/3 cup Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (see notes)
- 6 T grapeseed oil (see notes)
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/4 cup buttermilk
- 1 1/2 cups grated zucchini
- 1 cup white whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. baking powder
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F/175C.
- Spray a loaf pan with nonstick spray.
- In a small bowl, combine the eggs, sweetener of your choice, brown sugar, oil, vanilla, and buttermilk.
- Stir in the grated zucchini.
- In a slightly larger bowl, mix together the white whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, unsweetened cocoa powder, and salt.
- Mix the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients, and stir just enough to combine.
- Then fold in chopped walnuts.
- Scrape the batter into loaf pan that has been sprayed with nonstick spray. (I also used the rubber scraper to spread the batter to make the top of the loaf even.)
- Bake 45-50 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of the bread comes out clean.
- Let bread cool in the pan, then slice and serve.
Notes
Now that I've discovered Golden Monkfruit Sweetener (affiliate link) I would definitely use that for the sweetener for this recipe! But use any sweetener you prefer. Use any neutral-flavored oil for this recipe. I used White Whole Wheat Flour (affiliate link) and haven't tested the recipe with regular whole wheat flour.
Recipe created by Kalyn.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 185Total Fat: 13gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 11gCholesterol: 31mgSodium: 186mgCarbohydrates: 14gFiber: 3gSugar: 3gProtein: 5g
Nutrition information is automatically calculated by the Recipe Plug-In I am using. I am not a nutritionist and cannot guarantee 100% accuracy, since many variables affect those calculations.
Low-Carb Diet / Low-Glycemic Diet / South Beach Diet Suggestions:
Even though this Sugar-Free Zucchini Bread uses a sugar-free sweetener, this may not be low enough in carbs for low-carb diet plans and is probably Phase 3 for the original South Beach Diet. Check out my Flourless Zucchini Muffins or Flourless Breakfast Muffins with Zucchini and Feta if you’d like an almond flour treat made with zucchini.
Find More Recipes Like This One:
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Historical Notes for this Recipe:
This recipe was first posted in 2010. It was last updated with more information in 2022.
30 Comments on “Sugar-Free Whole Wheat Chocolate Zucchini Bread”
If you don't want to use other sweeteners, I'd just replace the sweetener with an equal amount of sugar. I don't think you could replace it with applesauce without making other adjustments to the recipe, since applesauce adds more liquid.
Hi! I am interested to try this, but I really do not want to buy any sugar-replacement, as I've heard the worst about it (and I'm not a fan of buying stuff just for the one recipe)
Is it possible, you think, to divide the Splenda by half sugar, half apple sauce? I've heard people use apple sauce as a replacement in some desserts- but I don't know if it would work, or even if it,s a replacement for sugar or for butter!
Thanks a great deal, this looks like a fun recipe.
Mrs. Jande, so glad you liked it, and I'm intrigued by the idea of using spinach as part of the veggies!
AMAZING! My toddler just loved it and I even added some frozen spinach because I didn't have quite enough zucchini. Very MOIST, just don't expect a sugar, butter bomb. It's subtle and rich in flavor and you can't taste the zucchini at all. I made it sans nuts.
It would be fine without the walnuts.
Question…I really dislike walnuts (any nuts, really). Would this not be so hot without them?
Julia, you are so welcome. (And I'll have to pass on the word to Pam that you can't taste the zucchini!)
This was AMAZING. Thank you for posting this!! We didn't taste the zucchini at all. It was just a super decadent treat (that just happens to be healthier than it tastes).
I love chocolate recipes…
Willow, it sounds like you've come up with your own version of this recipe! Glad to hear it was tasty.