Zucchini and Date Loaf
No matter how hard Mom tried to convince you, vegetables just aren’t as delicious as cake. Now, maybe you’ve grown out of refusing to eat your greens, but that doesn’t change the basic laws of nature (namely, sugar tastes good). This flavourful date loaf is here to help – just sneak in a couple cups of grated zucchini. Your kids won’t be the wiser, promise. Plus, when zucchinis aren’t at their best, they make for the best baking. This recipe will help you make good use of all those zucchini before they’re ready for the compost – sustainability (and sweets) for the win!
Zucchini and Date Loaf Recipe
Ingredients
Pumpkin Flax Granola Streusel
- 1 1/4 cup Nature’s Path Pumpkin Seed + Flax Granola
- 1/4 cup melted butter
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
Zucchini and Date Loaf
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp egg replacer
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cups grated zucchini
- 1/2 cup chopped pitted dates
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Toss granola with melted butter and brown sugar; set aside.
- Grease a 5 x 9-inch loaf pan and line with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch (5 cm) overhang on either side.
- Whisk the flour with egg replacer, baking powder, cinnamon, allspice, salt and nutmeg; set aside.
- In a separate bowl, whisk sugar with oil, milk and vanilla.
- Stir in flour mixture until incorporated.
- Fold in zucchini and dates.
- Scrape half batter into the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle with half the streusel.
- Scrape remaining half batter over top and smooth top.
- Sprinkle with remaining streusel.
- Bake for 65 to 75 minutes or until cake tester inserted in centre comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on rack for 20 minutes.
- Remove from pan using the parchment overhang as handles.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
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Nature's Path
Nature's Path is committed to making only organic food products since 1985, and that’s something that will never change. As organic pioneers, Nature's Path believes that every time you choose organic, you cast a vote for a better food system and a more sustainable future for us all.
