My sister’s boyfriend showed up at my parent’s house with a giant zucchini. Yes, literally, a giant zucchini that came from his family’s garden. I cook with zucchini all the time, but I’ve never baked with it. I know zucchini bread is a summer classic when the squash is in season and home gardeners have so much their friends and neighbors run away screaming because they don’t want anymore.
Giant Zucchini: 3 lbs, 3 oz
I found a recipe for Whole Wheat Zucchini Bread in the King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking book and decided to try it. Instead of a loaf, I made muffins. The recipe made 16 standard-sized muffins. Also, instead of grating the zucchini (my parents don’t have a box grater. Who doesn’t have one?), I diced it really small. Or tried to dice it really small. I’m lazy with my knife skills.
The muffins turned out great, diced zucchini and all, and were a big hit at the office. Which reminds me, another reason I made these was to bring something into the office on Monday. I made cookies, but now that I’m in a house full of people they didn’t last the weekend. Apparently, my staff was a bit traumatized when I wasn’t able to bake for a few weekends and showed up to work empty-handed. They told me never to do it again.
You can find the recipe from the book HERE. There is a different whole wheat zucchini bread recipe on the King Arthur website.
24 Comments
July 3, 2009 at 5:47 am
I’m still looking for the zucchini bread of my dreams, so I’d love to try this one. Love the idea of muffins, too!
July 3, 2009 at 7:10 am
Very interesting to use diced zucchini, usually when the zucchini is grated it sorta blends in to the rest of the bread….also, I love the muffins…I make lots of loaf breads into muffins instead cause it’s so easy for my kids to just grab one (or two) instead of having to cut a slice!!
Peace, Stephanie
July 3, 2009 at 7:17 am
This is a very healthy muffin.
July 3, 2009 at 9:57 am
oooooooooooo yum!
July 3, 2009 at 10:19 am
I LOVE that book, and your posts keep inspiring me to use it. But I have to ask: no zucchini ice cream?
July 3, 2009 at 10:21 am
How lovely! I’ve never baked with courgette before either but it looks fantastic! And boy oh boy is that a big specimen :p
Katie xox
July 3, 2009 at 11:17 am
I love baking with zucchini. Did you use it all? That looked like a lot of zucchini! I’ve posted two really good zucchini bread/muffin recipes if you want to look around my blog too. One was a chocolate zucchini bread that was sooo darn good. We loved it.
Your muffins look awesome!
Michelle
July 3, 2009 at 12:40 pm
That is one big zucchini – over 3 pounds!! (Love the scale, btw, I have the same one). I still haven’t dipped into that book but this may a great recipe to start with. Love the way your muffins look, and I hope it helped your staff recover from their sweets deprivation.
July 3, 2009 at 1:43 pm
These look fabulous. I think I have that book packed somewhere. I will have to check out the recipe once the book is uncovered!
July 3, 2009 at 2:50 pm
Those look so much yummier than the zucchini muffins I made earlier.. I’m not sure if I’m even going to blog about them!
July 3, 2009 at 7:29 pm
I love zucchini in just about anything. It’s my favorite vege to add to baked goods. I have this recihttp://homebakedsweetness.blogspot.com/pe for frosted zucchini cookies. The frosting is made with buttermilk and is out of this world good! I try not to make them to much cus I can eat a ton! You should check out my blog, Im giving away a super cute apron
July 4, 2009 at 7:14 am
Your muffins look great. And a good way to use a gigantic zucchini! They would be moist and delicious, I’m sure!
July 4, 2009 at 11:55 am
Great looking muffins. I never met a zucchini (any size) that I wasn’t happy to have and use up. I even grew, oh I think two plants once and it really does start coming out the ears!
They’ve had some BIG ‘UNs at our farmer’s market the last few weeks!
July 4, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Sweet Lord, that IS a giant zucch!!!! Hahahah what else to do with it than bake it into some muffins, eh?
Lovely, very healthy. Perfect breakfast!
July 4, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Zucchini makes such a tender muffin. They look healthy and tasty.
July 4, 2009 at 5:03 pm
That sucker was huge!
Happy 4th!
~ingrid
July 4, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I can’t wait til the zucchini starts pouring in… I love baking it into breads and muffins, not to mention the savory things as well!
July 5, 2009 at 1:02 am
These muffins look so delicious!
July 5, 2009 at 7:39 am
I would have run screaming from the room at the sight of that zucchini!
I have a smaller version in my fridge right now, I’m going to make chocolate chip zucchini bread later today.
July 5, 2009 at 7:50 am
Those look so great…I love all the colors in them. That is one very large zucchini!
July 5, 2009 at 12:21 pm
I cannot wait for my zucchini to get a little bigger so I can try these.
July 5, 2009 at 8:40 pm
That is one seriously huge zucchini! Love that first photo – the muffins look awesome!
July 8, 2009 at 1:23 pm
haha, I am laughing at that zucchini. I love it! If I brought that home the BF would make some unsavory jokes about where he wanted to put that. I would have to hide it from him
I have also never made zucchini bread before, I should try making some this summer.
July 11, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I would have loved to see comments from the people that had actually tried this recipe, instead of a bunch of comments about how big the zucchini is.