Recipe: Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread Made With Splenda
When I am trying to manage my weight, the first thing I do is cut back on my sugar intake. This is a really hard one for me. Sugar is my comfort food. The main reason I started using SPLENDA® years ago, was so that I didn’t have to compromise the taste of my food while I was trying to lose weight. By using SPLENDA®, I found I could satisfy my sweet tooth and still enjoy my favorite recipes.
Our neighborhood garden is overflowing with zucchini right now. I am always looking for recipes that show me new and creative ways to use this vegetable. I decided to give my friend Karen’s zucchini recipe a makeover and use SPLENDA® in place of the sugar. SPLENDA® has 1 gram of fiber per teaspoon, which gave this recipe a total of 72 grams of fiber and no added calories that sugar usually does. Wow!
Karen’s Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup oil
- 1 1/2 cups sugar or SPLENDA®
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups grated zucchini
- 2 1/2 cups baking powder
- 2 tsp. baking soda
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. nutmeg
- 2 tsp. vanilla
- 1 large banana, mashed
- 2 cups chocolate chips or 1 cup chopped nuts (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Blend oil and sugar.
- Beat in eggs and zucchini.
- Combine remaining ingredients.
- Place in 2 greased loaf.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 1 hour.
Additional Information about Splenda
When using SPLENDA® in your recipes, you use the same amount of sweetener that you would sugar. By using SPLENDA® as an alternative to sugar, you not only reduce the amount of calories in your recipes, but lower carbohydrates and increase fiber to your diet as well.
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Disclaimer: Splenda provided me with product to review and use in this recipe. However, all thoughts and opinions in this post are my own.
Is there truly no flour at all? Please let me know; I would like to make this bread soon, but I don’t want to mess it up. Thanks.