Zucchini Baking Recipes

It always seems like if you plant even one zucchini plant, you have enough zucchini to feed a very large house plus the neighbors. So, of course, there is then the demand of what to do with all of that zucchini. It always amazes me that zucchini can taste so good in baked goods. Hope you enjoy these two baking recipes for zucchini!

Zucchini Granola Cookies

Cookie Recipes

3/4 cup butter or margarine (softened)
1 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
grated rind of 1 orange
3 cups grated, unpeeled zucchini
3 to 3 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 cup butterscotch or chocolate chips
3 cups granola cereal

In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar. Mix in the egg, vanilla, orange rind, and zucchini. Add in the flour and baking soda. Mix in the granola cereal. Then mix in the butterscotch or chocolate chips. Grease a cookie sheet and put teaspoonfuls of the dough onto the sheet. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes.

Chocolate Zucchini Bread

1 cup brown sugar
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup oil
3 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup buttermilk
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 teaspoons baking soda
5 tablespoons cocoa
2 1/2 cups grated zucchini
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1/2 cup raisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts (optional)

In a large bowl, mix the sugars, oil, and margarine together. Add the egg into the mixture one at a time. Mix in the buttermilk and vanilla. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and cocoa. Add in the zucchini and dry mixture by alternating. Add in the chocolate chips, raisins, and nuts. Grease a 9x13-inch pan and pour the batter into it. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 hour.

Zucchini Baking Recipes

Fun Cookie Baking Ideas

If you or your family are bored with eating the same cookies why not try something a slight different? Say goodbye to your Oatmeal and raisin or Chocolate Chip, not that I could ever give up the latter completely, and be a bit more inventive.

I am however, open to all suggestions and am willing to experiment with different flavors. If you don't try you never know, that's my motto in the kitchen.

Delicious Cookie

There are a few new cookies which I've tried lately, and I'm so glad that I did. Here are a few of the ones I made that were beyond doubt tasty and will undoubtedly be on my list from now on when baking day comes around.

The first new way I tried was to make my cookies from a cake mixture. They are beyond doubt tasty, and you even get the authentic cracks in the cookies. The charm of this is the range of flavors you can buy a cake mix in.

The next one I tried was using dough made from peanut butter. You can make this yourself or buy it ready made. When you take the cookies from the oven create a space inside each cookie and pop in a peanut butter cup, get the picture?

If you prefer your chocolate to be white rather than brown, then a great blend for cookies is white chocolate with cranberry. The two flavors blend together within the cookie to create a taste sensation. These have proved to be very favorite and I'm being asked now to make them for people.

My last recommendation for today is to get your cookie dough and throw in some butter toffee, chocolate chips and cherry. Very sweet and delicious, these will soon become a firm favorite in your household.

The great thing about baking cookies is that there are no rules. You may have some great ideas yourself, don't keep them as ideas, give them a go. Try some of my ideas with some of your own, you should enjoy both production and eating cookies.

Fun Cookie Baking Ideas