This pumpkin zucchini bread cooks up moist, delicious and delicately sweet. An easy fall bread made with whole grains, pumpkin puree, fresh grated zucchini, and cinnamon. It's a bite of autumn in each bite.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and spray a 9-inch loaf pan with baking spray.
Use strips of parchment paper to create “handles” to easily remove the bread from the pan.
Measure the milk and add one tablespoon vinegar and let it sit while you measure out the rest of the ingredients.
1 cup coconut or almond milk, 1 tablespoon vinegar
Place both sugars, pumpkin, vanilla extract, milk, and pumpkin in a separate bowl and mix well with a whisk.
½ cup brown sugar, ¾ cup granulated sugar, 2 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 cup pumpkin puree
Add the flours, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt to the wet ingredients and stir to combine.
1 ½ cup all purpose flour, 1 ½ cup 100% whole wheat flour, 1 tablespoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon salt
Fold in grated zucchini and walnuts stirring just until mixed.
1 cup zucchini, ½ cup chopped walnuts
Pour mixture into a well sprayed 9 inch loaf pan and bake at 350° F for 70-75 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the center comes out clean.
Muffins
Divide up the batter into a well-sprayed muffin pan.
Bake five minutes at 400° F and the reduce the temperature to 350° and cook for 15 minutes longer. Makes about 18 muffins.
Notes
Be sure to squeeze the zucchini. Don’t worry to get it ALL out but zucchini contains a great deal of water and removing some of the excess water gives better results.
Spray the loaf pan well. Combine that with the parchment paper “handles” to make removing the bread from the pan much easier.
Preheat the oven before baking. A hot oven works best and is essential to activating the leavening so your bread rises properly.
Don’t overmix. This activates the gluten too much and may make the bread tough.
Check your can of pumpkin! It needs to be puree not pumpkin pie filling!