Description
With the abundance of zucchini in the summer, what better way than to make this super easy and moist lemon zucchini bread?
Ingredients
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Elderflower Sugar
- 2 cups granulated sugar (400 grams)
- 1/3 cup elderflowers (small handful)
Lemon Zucchini Bread
- 1 cup grated zucchini (1/2 large, 115 grams)
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (190 grams)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 cup light olive oil (not extra-virgin, 100 grams)
- 1 large egg (room temperature)
- 1 cup elderflower sugar* (or regular sugar, 200 grams)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Zest of 2 large lemons and juice of 1 (about 1/4 cup or 4 tablespoons)
Lemon Elderflower Cream Cheese Glazing
- 1/2 cup cream cheese (112 grams)
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon elderflower cordial* or liqueur
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar (30 grams)
- Pinch salt
- Water as needed, I used 2 tablespoons
Instructions
Elderflower sugar
- Clean all your elderflowers, making sure they are free of bugs. They also need to be completely dry before mixing with the sugar.
- Add one layer of sugar to a glass jar, then top with a layer of flowers, then a new layer of sugar, and continue until you have used all the sugar and flowers.
- Store it in a dark and cool place. Shake the jar, once a day for a week. When the sugar is dry, the sugar is done. It will not be as dry as regular sugar, but it shouldn't be very moist either.
- Then you should strain the sugar to discard the flowers, and the sugar will be ready to use!
Lemon Zucchini Bread
- Preheat the oven to 350℉ (175℃) and grease one 8x4 inch (20x10 cm) bread loaf pan.
- Grate the zucchini, and just lightly blot it. Don't squeeze and discard all the water, we use it as some of the liquid in the zucchini bread. Just make sure you don't swim in zucchini water.
- In a large bowl, whisk the dry ingredients together: all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, and baking soda.
- In another bowl, mix wet ingredients: grated zucchini, olive oil, sugar, egg, vanilla extract, and lemon juice, and zest.
- Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and carefully mix them together using a spatula.
- Pour the batter into the prepared loaf pan and bake on the middle rack for about 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out with just a few moist crumbs.
- Cool for 20 minutes in the pan before cooling completely on a wire rack. Meanwhile, mix all lemon cream cheese glazing ingredients and drizzle them on top of the zucchini bread.
Lemon Elderflower Cream Cheese Glazing
- Mix all the ingredients togehter. Add just enough water to make it spreadable. More water if you want to lightly drizzle the bread.
Notes
* If you don't have time to wait for the elderflower sugar. You can add 1 tablespoon elderflower cordial or liqueur to the dish. No need to alter anything else.
Storage: Keeps in a tight plastic bag or cookie box for 3 days. I prefer to slice it and freeze it. Thaw on the counter.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Additional Time: 0 hours
- Cook Time: 50 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 296
- Sugar: 23.6
- Sodium: 223
- Fat: 14.9
- Saturated Fat: 4.2
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 39.4
- Fiber: 1
- Protein: 3.7
- Cholesterol: 31