Lemon Zucchini Bread
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Lemon Zucchini Bread is moist and loaded with bits of zucchini and lemon with a delicious lemon icing. Perfect for the freezer and to have anytime of year!
If you haven't had zucchini bread yet, you're in for a real treat. You don't actually taste the zucchini in the quick bread recipes. The grated zucchini
helps add moisture and is an easy way to add some hidden veggies to your bread loaves. You can make Classic Zucchini Bread, Chocolate Zucchini Bread, or even Pineapple Zucchini Bread.
Why This Lemon Zucchini Loaf Works
This Lemon Zucchini Bread recipe is more like a cake with the sweet lemon glaze. It can be served as dessert, you can enjoy a slice for breakfast, brunch, or a midday afternoon snack. Plus, it goes nicely with a mug of hot tea or cup of coffee.
Making this lemon loaf and other baked goods, like Double Chocolate Zucchini Brownies, and Zucchini Cake is just what you need to make when you need to use extra summer zucchini.
Ingredients
- Flour: I used all-purpose flour.
- Pudding: Instant lemon pudding mix
- Baking powder and baking soda: Use fresh leavening agents for best results
- Sugar: Adds extra sweetness.
- Large eggs: a binding agent to help hold the bread together
- Lemon: fresh lemon juice and fresh lemon zest
- Shredded zucchini: It's easiest to use a box grater to grate your garden zucchini
- Loaf wet ingredients: milk, vegetable oil, and vanilla extract
- Powdered sugar: used with some more lemon juice to make the lemon icing
How To Make Lemon Zucchini Bread
- Step 1: In a large bowl, combine the all purpose flour, lemon pudding mix, baking powder, soda, and salt.
- Step 2: In a separate bowl, combine sugar, eggs, milk, oil, lemon juice, and vanilla extract together using a whisk.
- Step 3: Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl of dry ingredients and stir until just moistened. Do not overmix.
- Step 4: Use a box grater to grate the zucchini.
- Step 5: Use a wooden spoon to fold in the lemon zest and grated zucchini.
- Step 6: Line a loaf pan with parchment paper, leaving extra paper on the sides to act as handles once the bread has baked. Pour bread batter into the lined baking pan.
- Step 7: Bake the lemon zucchini cake and let it cool before removing from the baking pan to finish cooling on a wire rack.
- Step 8: In a small bowl, make the simple lemon glaze by mixing the lemon juice with the powdered sugar. Drizzle the icing on the cooled loaf, serve, and enjoy.
Recipe Tips
- No box shredder? Not a problem. Just use a food processor instead.
- There's no need to remove the skin from the zucchini before shredding.
- Leftover bread should be stored at room temperature in an airtight container. Freeze individual pieces by flash freezing them, then wrapping with plastic wrap and aluminum foil before placing them in a freezer safe container.
- Fresh lemon juice and lemon zest are a necessity to make the perfect loaf. Don't use bottled lemon juice it doesn't even compare to fresh lemon flavor.
Recipe Faq's
The water from the zucchini is what keeps this bread so moist. The only time I suggest squeezing out any excess liquid is when you have an extra-large, very watery zucchini. Once you've shredded your zucchini, you can place the pile of grated zucchini on a few paper towels and wring out any excess water. I try not to use larger zucchini for this reason, and because sometimes they have a bitter taste.
This usually happens when your bread loaf hasn't finish baking all the way. Use the toothpick test to make sure your moist Lemon Zucchini Bread is baked properly before removing it from the oven. Don't forget that the center of the bread will take the longest to bake, so check the loaf there before pulling it from the oven.
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Lemon Zucchini Bread
Ingredients
- 1 3/4 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 3.5 ounce instant lemon pudding box
- 3/4 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cups sugar
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup shredded zucchini
- zest of one lemon
For the lemon icing:
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray 1 9x5 metal loaf pan with nonstick spray. Or add a piece of parchment paper in the pan for easy removal.
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, pudding mix, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together the sugar, eggs, milk, oil, lemon juice, and vanilla.
- Stir into the dry ingredients until just moistened.
- Fold in the zucchini, lemon zest
- Pour batter into 9x5 metal loaf pan.
- Bake for 50-55 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Cool for 15 minutes before removing from pan to cool completely.
- In a small bowl, mix powdered sugar and lemon juice until well blended. Drizzle icing over cooled loaf. If you have icing leftover just store in a container in the refrigerator.
Do you think this recipie would work with gluten free all purpose flour? Thank you! Patricia
This is an excellent recipe. My husband who doesn't like zucchini bread LOVES this. I made mine in an 8*4 glass bread pan and it took a bit longer to cook through, but it was well worth the wait. My mother has mad the recipe too (she actually sent it to me) and hasn't mentioned the baking time to me, so I don't think she has had any issues with it. I'm making it again this afternoon as muffins to take to her house for a small dinner. My baby sister is about to go to college! Here's to hoping this sweet and zingy bread can keep the tears away!
This bread is absolutely amazing! We love it. Followed the recipe exactly and it came out perfect. I baked it in mini pans and gave out as gifts. It made 4. Thank you for the recipe.
Don’t know what happened. I used an 8x4 pan. During baking, the batter bubbled over the top and started burning all over the oven. I will try this recipe again but will definitely be using a larger loaf pan.
No all-purpose flour is best 🙂
Can I use self rising flour???
Thank you for this recipe! It's absolutely delicious!! I just made this recipe for tea with my mom and it turned out to be AMAZING! I realized I don't have a bread pan so I made muffins instead. The baking time significantly reduced, they were done in 18 minutes. The only thing I struggled with was the frosting.... It was too thick to drizzle with just the lemon juice added, so I added about 1 tsp of water and that seemed to thin it out enough to be able to work with it! 🙂
You say "Not at all as I expected" But you didn't make MY recipe lol. You changed it. Also, did you bake it for the time allotted for the size loaf pan?
Well, not at all as I expected. Was in oven 90 minutes and still looks uncooked. I think maybe I had to much zucchini. Recipe calls for 1 cup.
There are a lot of ingredients that add moisture, eggs, milk, zucchini. I also used applesauce instead if oil, probably not a good idea.
Will try again and will not vary from ingredients.
Yes it will work fine Karen.