Healthy Zucchini Carrot Bread (No Eggs, No Dairy)

This Healthy Zucchini Carrot Bread recipe is incredibly moist and flavorful, loaded with shredded carrots, zucchini, fall spices like cinnamon, nutmeg, and crunchy pecans. Bonus, this healthy carrot bread contains no eggs, no dairy or butter, and wholesome ingredients.

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I love making all kinds of sweet bread loaves, like my Vegan Chocolate Zucchini Bread, Vegan Carrot Cake Banana Bread, or Chickpea Flour Banana Bread. This new version is a combination of zucchini bread and a carrot bread recipe.

It results in a super moist bread that tastes like a carrot cake but with zucchini added for extra moisture. This bread is perfect for adding extra vegetables to your day while enjoying a sweet piece of baked goods.

Ingredients and Substitutions

All you need are a few simple, wholesome ingredients, including:

• Shredded Zucchini – Keep the skin on for extra nutrients and fibers. Trim the ends, and grate the zucchini as thin as you can to add moisture and texture to the bread. Then, place in a clean kitchen towel and wrap to squeeze out all the zucchini juice. Discard the juice or keep it for another recipe.
• Shredded Carrots – You don’t have to squeeze out the juice of the carrots. Shred them using the same box grater grating attachment and thickness as for your zucchini.
• Flour – You can use all-purpose flour, spelt flour, or all-purpose gluten-free flour.
• Applesauce – This is the magic ingredient to decrease saturated fat in your bread. It acts as an egg replacer, avoids having to add too much oil, and also adds the moist, delicious flavor and texture to this carrot apple zucchini bread.
• Light Olive Oil – You can also use canola oil or melted coconut oil.
• Unsweetened Almond Milk or any dairy-free milk you love, like coconut milk or soy milk.
• Unrefined Cane Sugar – You can also use white sugar, or erythritol for a sugar-free diabetes-friendly option.
• Soft Brown Sugar – You can use any unrefined sugar like coconut sugar or even brown erythritol.
• Baking Powder and Baking Soda – To give this bread a fluffy texture.
• Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Ginger – This is my combination to give the bread a fall flavor.
• Chopped Pecans – Feel free to swap for any other nuts you love, like walnuts or chopped almonds.

How To Make Healthy Zucchini Carrot Bread

It’s super easy to make a zucchini carrot bread in less than 15 minutes.

1. Before starting, prepare a pan: grease a 9-inch loaf pan with coconut oil or olive oil.
2. Cover the sides with hanging pieces of parchment paper. Set it aside.
3. First, prepare your vegetable. Peel off the skin of the carrots, trim ends, and grate using the smaller attachment of your hand grater. Set aside in a bowl.
4. Next, shred the zucchini, but first, trim their ends, and don’t peel off your zucchini. This adds nutrients, fiber, and texture to the bread.
5. Finally, drain the shredded zucchini in a kitchen towel to remove all their juice.
6. In a mixing bowl, combine all the wet ingredients with both sugar.
7. Whisk applesauce, oil, almond milk, brown sugar, and sugar until well combined. Now, stir in grated vegetables and chopped nuts. Set aside.
8. In another large bowl, whisk all the dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt. Set it aside.
9. Finally, pour the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and stir well to combine until the batter is smooth and no lumps show.
10. You can work in 2 additions, adding the dry ingredients progressively to avoid lumps in the batter.
11. Pour the batter into a 9-inch loaf pan covered with greased parchment paper.
12. Let some pieces of parchment paper hang out from the pan to make it easier to unmold the bread later.
13. Bake the zucchini carrot bread for 50 minutes at 350°F (180°C) until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean.
14. Cool the zucchini bread recipe down on a cooling rack for at least 3 hours before slicing. This is a great time to prepare your frosting if used.

Frosting

You don’t have to frost this bread, but if you want to add a touch of sweetness you can pick one of my two vegan frosting options below. Both are dairy-free and delicious on top of this carrot bread.

Coconut Cream Frosting

Vegan Vanilla Frosting

You can add a drizzle of 1 cup dairy-free coconut yogurt combined with 1 cup icing sugar. You can use any chopped nuts or shredded coconut to top the frosting and add extra crispy texture to the carrot bread.

Storage Instructions

This quick bread can be stored in a cake box in the fridge for up to 5 days. You can also slice the carrot zucchini bread and store it in the freezer for later. Thaw the slice of bread at room temperature before serving.

Serving Ideas

This carrot bread is delicious on its own as a healthy breakfast bread. But you can also serve your bread slice topped with one of the healthy toppings options below.

• Peanut butter
• Almond butter
• Baby jam

Allergy Swaps

If you have some food allergies, I have some options below.

• Nut-Free – Replace the 1/2 cup of chopped nuts with shredded coconut or dark chocolate chips.
• Gluten-Free – Replace the all-purpose flour with a gluten-free all-purpose flour blend that contains added gums.
• Sugar-Free – Replace the sweetener with erythritol.
• Applesauce Swap – You can replace the applesauce with mashed bananas.

More Zucchini Recipes

I love to create zucchini baked goods recipes to use all my summer garden zucchini or to create healthy recipes with extra vegetables. Below I listed my favorite healthy zucchini recipes for you to try.

Healthy Banana Zucchini Bread

Vegan Zucchini Brownies

Vegan Zucchini Bread

Vegan Stuffed Zucchini Boats

Zucchini Carrot Bread

This easy Zucchini Carrot Bread recipe with a moist, sweet cinnamon crumb filled with a combination of shredded carrots and zucchini plus crunchy walnuts.

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Prep Time: 15 minutes mins

Cook Time: 50 minutes mins

Total Time: 1 hour hr 5 minutes mins

Course: Breakfast

Cuisine: American

Servings: 12 slices

Calories: 190.8 kcal

Author: Carine Claudepierre

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Ingredients

US Customary – Metric

• ▢ ¼ cup Light Olive Oil - or vegetable oil
• ▢ 2 tablespoons Unsweetened Almond Milk
• ▢ ½ cup Unsweetened Applesauce - or mashed bananas
• ▢ ¼ cup Cane Sugar - or white sugar
• ▢ ½ cup Light Brown Sugar - or coconut sugar
• ▢ 1 cup Shredded Zucchini - packed, drained from their liquid
• ▢ 1 cup Shredded Carrot
• ▢ 1 ½ cup All-Purpose Flour - or White whole wheat flour
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Baking Powder
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Baking Soda
• ▢ ½ teaspoon Salt
• ▢ 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon Fresh Ginger
• ▢ ⅛ teaspoon Nutmeg
• ▢ ½ cup Chopped Walnuts - or pecans

Instructions

• Preheat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a 9×5-inch loaf pan with parchment paper. Slightly oil paper. Set aside.
• First, cut and discard the extremities of the zucchini. Next, peel half of the skin or all of it, as you prefer. Grate the zucchini on the smaller blade of your food processor or hand grater.
• Place the shredded zucchini in a clean kitchen towel and wrap, squeeze until all the zucchini water has been extracted. Discard zucchini water.
• Pack the shredded, drained zucchini in a measuring cup to measure 1 cup. Set aside with the shredded carrots – no need to drain carrots.
• In a large mixing bowl, whisk olive oil, almond milk, applesauce, cane sugar, and brown sugar.
• Stir in shredded, drained shredded zucchini, shredded carrots, chopped nuts, and spices: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and salt.
• In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and baking soda.
• Gently stir in the dry ingredients into the wet, until just combined, don't over mix to avoid a gummy heavy bread. You can stir in the dry ingredients in two addition to avoid lumps.
• Pour the batter into the loaf pan and bake in the center rack of the oven for 50-55 minutes at 350°F (180°C) until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out with a few to no crumbs on it.
• Cool the bread for 10 minutes in the pan, then transfer it to a cooling rack.
• Slice the bread after a few hours. 3 hours is ideal for easy slicing. Decorate with frosting if desired, when the bread reach room temperature.

Frosting – optional

• You can use one batch of my vegan frosting recipe or my coconut cream frosting recipe to spread on top of the cooled carrot bread. Sprinkle extra toasted shredded walnuts on the top if desired.

Equipment

9-inch x 5-inch Loaf Pan

Parchment Paper

Mixing Bowl

Measuring Cups and Spoons

Cooling Rack

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Nutrition

Serving: 1slice | Calories: 190.8kcal | Carbohydrates: 28.4g | Protein: 2.6g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.9g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3.8g | Sodium: 174.9mg | Potassium: 120.2mg | Fiber: 1.4g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 1807.1IU | Vitamin C: 2.7mg | Calcium: 35mg | Iron: 1.1mg | Magnesium: 15.6mg | Phosphorus: 46.1mg | Zinc: 0.3mg