These Chocolate Zucchini Cookies are a soft brownie like cookie that has cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and white chocolate chips in the batter for a triple chocolate cookie that is full of deliciousness! These cookies are moist and fudge like and are absolutely delicious with a glass of milk!
Zucchini Is For Cookies
When your garden is overflowing with zucchini, you come with with as many ways as possible to use it up! Zucchini is great for sweet and savory recipes.
Zucchini works similar to bananas and applesauce in baked goods. It adds texture and moistness and bulks up cookies, cakes, breads, and more. It has a very mild flavor, making it easy to pair with warm spices and chocolate.
Zucchini also works great as an apple replacement. My mom would make a mock apple pie with zucchini. Once peeled and baked with the rest of the pie ingredients, you would never know it was zucchini! My friend Carlee has an Almost Apple Pie recipe you might want to try!
What You Need To Make Zucchini Chocolate Cookies
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* This is not a complete list, please refer to the recipe card for full recipe and amounts
Bread Flour - I use bread flour for almost all of my baking. I like the texture of baked goods with it, and these cookies come out cakey and fudge like with the bread flour.
Dutch Process Cocoa Powder - I love the deep dark fudgy flavor and texture when I use this product.
Unsweetened Chocolate - this is the solid chocolate bar, it will be melted before using.
White Chocolate Chips - I prefer this brand. White chocolate can be waxy and for this reason will only use a good quality white chocolate.
Tips And Substitutions
- Always pre-shred, salt, and drain the zucchini first. This removes excess moisture from the zucchini and prevents the baked good from being soggy.
- Try to use small to medium sized zucchini (no bigger than 6 inches long). The large the zucchini gets, the more likely it will be bitter.
- If the zucchini has large seeds, remove the seeds before shredding.
- Substitute 1 cup shredded apple for the zucchini.
- Substitute semi-sweet chocolate chips for the white chocolate.
Other Sweet Zucchini Recipes To Try
Chocolate Chip Zucchini Muffins
Chocolate Banana Zucchini Muffins
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📖 Recipe
Chocolate Zucchini Cookies with White Chocolate
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Ingredients
- 2 cups bread flour
- ¼ cup dutch process cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup butter softened
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 1 cup shredded and drained zucchini
- 1 cup white chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. In a small mixing bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- Add the butter, granulated sugar, and brown sugar to a large mixing bowl. Using a hand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars for 2 minutes, or until creamy and smooth.
- Add the vanilla extract and the egg to the butter mixture and mix for 2 minutes, or until creamy and smooth. Stir in the zucchini. Set aside.
- Melt the unsweetened chocolate In a medium sized microwave safe bowl, doing so in 30 second intervals until the chocolate is smooth and creamy.
- Add the melted chocolate to the wet batter and stir to combine.
- Stir in the flour mixture and stir until the flour is just incorporated into the cookie dough.
- Add the white chocolate chips and stir until evenly distributed.
- Portion the cookie dough by 1 tablespoon sized portions onto a parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake for 13 minutes, or until cookies no longer look wet and bounce back when lightly touched. Cool and store in an airtight container.
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Notes
Tips And Substitutions
- Always pre-shred, salt, and drain the zucchini first. This removes excess moisture from the zucchini and prevents the baked good from being soggy.
- Try to use small to medium sized zucchini (no bigger than 6 inches long). The large the zucchini gets, the more likely it will be bitter.
- If the zucchini has large seeds, remove the seeds before shredding.
- Substitute 1 cup shredded apple for the zucchini.
- Substitute semi-sweet chocolate chips for the white chocolate.
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