So I have to admit sometimes the most random things happen to me. I just can’t explain it, I don’t know if it’s that I just seem to be in the right place at the right time, or I’m just lucky, cursed, who knows!
I was doing some shopping and started up a conversation with the cashier, turns out another customer had asked her to bring them in a zucchini from her garden and then never showed. She pulled out this huge zucchini from under the counter and asked me if I would like it. Having no clue what I was going to do with it I said sure, shoved it in my shopping bag and headed out to my car….
So I realized when I got home that here I was with this HUGE zucchini and no idea what to do with it…. So I started going through my old hand me down cook books and found on a beyond stained page a recipe from one of those elementary school fundraisers that we got when I was in Grade 1….
So here it is, Chocolate Pineapple Zucchini bread!
I’m going to include the recipe here seeing as it is baking and even I follow a recipe when it comes to baking!
3 eggs beaten
3 cups flour
1 cup veg oil
2 tsp baking soda
2 cups white sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp baking powder
2 cups shredded zucchini
1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
3/4 tsp nutmeg
1 cup drained crushed pineapple
1 cup chocolate chips
So of course I gather all my ingredients at the beginning… You can’t see the flour and the sugar in the first picture, that is because we buy in bulk and then dump these into huge white buckets that are just to big to put on the counter…
Start by dumping all the dry ingredients into one bowl
And the wet in another… I don’t know about you but I’ve always considered sugar a ‘wet’ ingredient I’m not sure why, I think I heard about it somewhere just can’t remember where…
Mix the wet and add the zucchini and the pineapple
I thought using the electric beater would help with this but honestly it was a mess…. But I mixed the zucchini and the pineapple in with the wet ingredients.
When that was done instead of sifting the dry ingredients like the recipe said to do I just ran my whisk through them a few times until they were combined.
Still being stubborn and persevering with that damn electric mixer while I added in the dry ingredients to the wet a little at a time.
Finally I got smart and switched to my wooden spoon… I don’t know about you but if you cook a lot like I do, I develop a particular attachment to one wooden spoon that you use for EVERYTHING and this one happens to be mine!
Once I got the wet and dry all mixed together, I mixed in the chocolate chips!
And got my pans prepared, and by prepared I mean greased and coated in a fine coat of flour!
At first I thought I’d just have a few things so I only prepared a couple of pans….
Little did I realize, there was WAY more batter then I had anticipated! Bake them at 350 until done! I am not going to give an exact time. 1. because everyones oven is different, and two I have so many different sized pans going that I will be taking things out at all different times!
And viola, after baking these are the finished product!
Best way to have these is still warm right with butter melting into them!
When I started out on this recipe I NEVER imagined I would have made so much, but that is what the freezer is for!
I hope you give these a try!
Stuttering Adventures in the Kitchen 