Muffins

Recipe: Zucchini Muffins

This recipe is a gem. It was handed down to my grandmother (86 years young) in 1988 from my grandfather’s Aunt Mirtle.

It’s a sweet and simple recipe getting most of it’s moisture from the vegetables added in.

This had to have been one of the first recipes I wrote in my book, there were an embarrassingly large amount of spelling and grammar mistakes and the list of ingredients were all over the place.

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After getting the batch of muffins into the oven I actually took the time to re-write this recipe as the teenage Nicole’s display just made me cringe. Despite the chaos on the page, however, the recipe is solid.

Zucchini Muffins (Or Loaves)

1 Cup Vegetable Oil

2 Cups White Sugar

3 Eggs

3 Cups Flour

1 Tsp Baking Soda

1 Tsp Baking Powder

2 Tsp Salt

2 Tsp Vanilla

2 Cups grated/ processed zucchini

1 Cup Crushed Pineapple

1/2 cup raisins

  1. Mix together the oil and sugar, add in eggs;

  2. Blend the flour, soda, powder and salt;

  3. Fold in the zucchini, pineapple, vanilla and raisins;

  4. Pour batter into 2 greased loaf pans or lined muffin tins;

  5. Bake for 60 minutes for loafs or 25 minutes for muffins.

Banana Zucchini Chocolate Chip Muffins

Enjoy them with a little bit of margarine or just on their own. These muffins are stuffed with vegetables to make you feel good about your snack! (Along with a little chocolate to satisfy your taste buds) 

This started off as an old family recipe for a good tasty banana loaf, I took it and ran with it. Added a few extra ingredients, tweaked existing ones to make it my own. 

Banana zucchini chocolate chip muffins

One thing I love to have ready to go is some mashed up banana in the freezer. I will be starting a new job shortly so I took a little time off to enjoy the spring before starting at the bottom of the vacation pool again. First day one of the first things I did was take a bag of mashed banana and shredded zucchini out of the freezer!

Banana Zucchini chocolate chip muffins

It's been incredible having time to bake for fun again! Sometimes it gets a little exhausting coming home from work at 5pm stuffing some food in my face and baking a cake. I'm grateful that it's still something I enjoy doing and this little vacation was just what the doctor ordered.

Chocolate chip, banana, zucchini muffins

Below is my recipe for these delicious banana zucchini chocolate chip muffins.

banana zucchini chocolate chip muffins