Blue Ribbon Zucchini Bread Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
• Sift together plain flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and baking powder.
• Beat eggs well.
• Gradually add sugar and oil, beat together well.
• Add vanilla and dry ingredients from above blend well.
• Stir in the zucchini.
• Combine walnuts and 1 tsp of flour, stir this into the batter.
• Pour batter between two 2 greased (I use baking paper) 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" loaf tins.
• Bake for 1 hour or till tests done (skewer poked in the middle comes out clean).
• Cool in tins on racks for 10 minutes before removing from tins, cool on racks.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2. In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
• 3. In small bowl, combine eggs, oil and vanilla. Add to dry ingredients and mix. (Batter will be stiff until you mix in zucchini.)
• 4. Stir in zucchini, carrots, raisins and nuts. As you continue to mix, it will become the proper consistency as the zucchini lets go of its moisture.
• 5. Pour batter evenly into 2 well-greased 8½x4 inch loaf pans.
• 6. Bake 1 hour to 1 hour and 15 minutes or until a knife inserted comes out nearly clean. Cool 10-15 minutes before removing from pan. Cool on wire racks.
• 7. Makes 2 loaves.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a large bowl, combine eggs, zucchini, oil, pineapple, and the vanilla extract.
• 2. In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients.
• 3. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients in large bowl.
• 4. Fold in nuts, cranberries, and coconut if desired.
• 5. Pour into 2 greased 8x4" loaf pans or 3 small loaf pans.
• 6. Bake larger pans for approximately 50-55 mins and smaller pans for 35-40 mins or until golden brown and an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 mins before removing bread from pans onto wire racks.

Steps:

• Grease two 8x4x2 loaf pans; set aside.
• In a medium bowl, combine eggs, sugar, cooking oil, and orange peel. Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• Add flour mixture and orange juice alternately to egg mixture. Stir just until combined after each addition. Sir in zucchini and coconut. Spoon batter into prepared greased pans
• Bake in a 350°F oven for approx. 55 minutes. Cool bread in pans on wire racks for 10 min. Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks. Wrap and store bread overnight before slicing.

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 325. Grease and flour 2 loaf pans.
• 2. Sift flour. Mix flour, nutmeg, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
• 3. In a large bowl, beat eggs, sugars, canola oil, and vanilla.
• 4. Stir sifted ingredients into egg mixture.
• 5. Blend in zucchini and nuts.
• 6. Pour into loaf pans.
• 7. Bake at 325 for 60-70 minutes or until toothpick in center comes out clean.

Steps:

• Slice, seed and coarsely grate 2 to 4 large zucchini.
• Place about a handful or two of the grated zucchini into cheesecloth, or a clean cotton dish towel (do not use a terry cloth dish towel), and squeeze it until very dry; repeat with the remaining grated zucchini.
• Measure out 2 well packed cups of the prepared zucchini for the recipe.
• Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan (or two 8x4-inch loaf pans).
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs until light.
• Gradually add sugar, and continue beating until thick and lemon colored.
• Continue beating egg/sugar mixture, while adding the oil in a thin stream, beat until all is well blended.
• By hand, stir in vanilla, zucchini, nuts and raisins.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients, and stir until well mixed.
• Pour batter into prepared pan(s).
• Bake at 350°F for 60 to 75 minutes or until a cake tester (or wooden toothpick) inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place pan(s) on wire rack to cool.
• Let cool in the pan(s) for about 5 minutes, remove cake from pan(s) and return the cake to the wire rack to continue cooling.
• Cake should be completely cooled before slicing.

Steps:

• 1. Grease and flour 4 mini pans or two regular bread pans.
• 2. Combine the first 5 ingredients together until well mixed. In a different bowl, mix the dry ingredients together.
• 3. Now add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients alternately with the buttermilk, ending with flour mixture.
• 4. Now stir in the zucchini and then the blueberries. Divide between pans and bake until tooth pick comes out clean from center of bread. Bigger pans longer time cooking and just the reverse. Bake till slightly browned.
• 5. Blueberries are an opt., you can use cranberries, raisins, nuts, dates. This recipe is also good for muffins.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 8x4" loaf pans or one Bundt pan. (This recipe can also make 18 to 24 muffins.) Place pans on parchment paper-lined baking sheet. In mixer bowl, blend sugar, butter or oil, eggs, orange juice and vanilla. In medium bowl, stir together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves. Fold dry ingredients into wet batter along with shredded carrots, zucchini, raisins, apples and walnuts. Spoon into prepared pans(s). Bake until done, about 1 hour, or until loaves spring back when gently touched with fingertips. Cool to room temperature before icing. *Cream Cheese Drip Frosting:* Place cream cheese, butter and most of confectioner's sugar in food processor or mixer bowl. Blend, adding more of confectioners' sugar and drizzling in a bit of orange juice to make soft, fluffy topping. Add more confectioners' sugar if required (or orange juice to loose, if necessary). Frost top of loaf or cake (if frost is soft enough, it will drip down sides), and garnish with shredded carrots and dusting of cinnamon before serving.