Zucchini Date Bread

The recipe below is my standard sweet bread recipe, if I am not using a sweet ingredient like dates, then I would add 1/3 cup of brown sugar, but the dates are sweet enough to subtract the sugar.  Some good modifications on this recipe are using 4 ripe bananas  and a cup of zucchini, or the bananas and raisins, with or without walnuts.  This will be a moist bread if baked for the correct amount of time, if over-baked it will be dry, so watch your timing.  This particular batch was for a friends birthday, she enjoyed it very much!

dates being chopped, a good

trick here is to wet them down

first i find pitting them easier

that way.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups flower

•1 tsp baking soda

•1 tsp baking powder

• 1 tsp salt

• 3 tsp egg replacer

• 4 tbsp water (mix with egg replacer and let sit)

• 1 tsp vanilla

•1 tsp cinnamon 

• 12 dates pitted and chopped 

• 2 1/2 cups zucchini 

• 1/3 cup pecans chopped (optional)

mix in pans

Directions:

Mix everything except the dates, zucchini and pecans in stand alone mixer or by hand, first adding the dry ingredients then adding the wet, and mix well, next add the zucchini and dates, mix again, finally add the pecans and lightly mix.  Place in two loaf pans that have been sprayed with cooking spray to prevent sticking.  Bake at 350 for about an hour.

loaf cooling... yum!