Zucchini Cheese Bread

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Zucchini Cheese Bread

This easy Zucchini Cheese Bread is a soft, fluffy, buttery quick bread loaded with cheese and speckled with zucchini. Perfect served as a side with a nice pat of butter or amazing used for grilled cheese sandwiches.

See below the recipe card for step-by-step images.

Prep Time10

Cook Time40

Total Time50

Course: Bread

Cuisine: American

Keyword: cheese quick bread, cheesy quick bread, zucchini bread

Servings: slices

Ingredients

For the Bread:

1¾ cups all-purpose flour spooned and leveled
1 tbsp granulated sugar
1 tbsp baking powder
½ tsp fine sea salt
3 cups freshly shredded cheddar cheese avoid pre-shredded
1 cup whole milk
1 large egg
¼ cup unsalted butter melted
1 cup shredded zucchini unpeeled, excess moisture removed (see note)

For the Topping:

¼ cup unsalted butter melted
¼ tsp dried parsley
¼ tsp garlic powder
1/8 tsp onion powder
1/8 tsp coarse salt

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Coat a 9x5 loaf pan with nonstick spray. Using a pastry brush, brush the spray all over the loaf pan to make sure it is covered up the sides and in the corners. Set aside.
In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt until combined. Add the cheddar cheese and stir it together so the cheese is coated in the flour mixture. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, unsalted butter, and shredded zucchini; pour into the dry mixture and stir it until just combined and there are no dry patches (don't over-mix.)
Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf pan and smooth out the top.
Bake for 35-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
While the bread is baking, make the topping: whisk together the butter, garlic powder, salt, onion powder, and dried parsley.
Remove loaf pan from the oven and set on a wire rack. Immediately brush the bread with the butter topping.
Let the bread cool for 5 minutes in the pan then take it out of the pan and cool completely on the wire rack.
Slice and serve.

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Notes

Remove excess moisture from the zucchini. After shredding the zucchini, squeeze out most of the moisture using paper towels.
Mix the ingredients until just combined, avoiding overmixing. Overmixing can result in less tender bread.

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