Light-textured Zucchini Bread

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• 3 cups zucchini, shredded
• 4 cups flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 cup walnuts, chopped and toasted
• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 5 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 tablespoon lemon rind
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1 1/2 cups skim milk
• 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 2 large eggs
• cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 press zucchini between several layers of paper towels. set aside.
• 3 combine flour, 1 cup sugar, walnuts, and next 6 ingredients (through nutmeg) in a large bowl; make a well in center of mixture.
• 4 combine milk, oil, vanilla, and eggs in a bowl; stir with a whisk.
• 5 add zucchini to wet mixture, stir.
• 6 add wet ingredients to flour mixture; stir just until moist.
• 7 divide batter evenly between 2 loaf pans coated with cooking spray.
• 8 sprinkle each with 1 t sugar.
• 9 bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour 10 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
• 10 cool 5 minutes in pans on wire rack, remove from pans to cool completely.