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Zucchini Bars with Spice Frosting | Moist and Easy Dessert Recipe

By Lorraine

Zucchini Bars with Spice Frosting

These moist zucchini bars are a sweet way to enjoy summer’s abundance. With a tender crumb, gentle spice, and a thin glaze that adds just the right finishing touch, they’re perfect for snacking, sharing, or serving as a simple dessert. Shredded zucchini keeps the bars soft and moist, while cinnamon and cloves bring warm, cozy flavor. Topped with an easy spice frosting, these bars come together quickly and are a longtime favorite in our home.

They’re baked in a square pan and sliced into small portions, making them a great choice for gatherings or lunchbox treats. The frosting can be made thin and glossy or thick and creamy, depending on your preference.Continue Reading

Chocolate Zucchini Cupcakes

By Lorraine

If it is summertime it must be zucchini time. There are lots of great reasons to eat zucchini and these chocolate zucchini cupcakes with peanut butter frosting is probably the most tasty way.Continue Reading

Breaded Fried Zucchini

By Lorraine

Summertime! Sweltering heat and oppressive humidity are some of the less attractive aspects of summer but oh, the fresh and abundant produce! Like the unassuming zucchini. Transform this green vegetable into a plateful of delicious, breaded fried zucchini that will disappear before your eyes.Continue Reading

Recipes using Garden Fresh Zucchini

By Lorraine

Enjoy summer zucchini as a healthy ingredient in meatballs, cupcakes, pie, bread, Ratatouille and zucchini boats. Great recipe collection with lots of ideas.

Summer is a delightful time of the year for many reasons and one of them is the abundance of fresh produce. Whether from the market or your garden, this is when the best and freshest fruits and vegetables are available making it easy to add nutritious ingredients to your meals. Zucchini will soon be ready to harvest from local farmers and backyard plots. In this collection of recipes using garden fresh zucchini, you will find an appetizer, entree, side dish and even a dessert that shines the spotlight on this summer squash.

Zucchini Carrot Bread

By Lorraine

Leafing through my cookbooks for a different way to use zucchini, I saw this bread that also includes shredded carrot. Now I won’t feel as guilty eating more than my share. And that orange cream cheese spread is just because I need my dairy and fruit servings each day. You agree, right? 😉 Try Zucchini Carrot Bread with Orange Cream Cheese Spread yourself and see what you think!Continue Reading

Fried Zucchini

By Lorraine

Did you grow up having fried zucchini during the summer? We did. We often ate fried food back then. Fried zucchini is a great side and I can make it my complete dinner even though frying kind of diminishes the health benefit of the zucchini. It is so good when the breading on the outside is crispy and the zucchini on the inside retains a bite. Continue Reading

Chocolate Zucchini Bread Swirl

By Lorraine

Chocolate zucchini bread swirl is has both cocoa powder and chocolate chips! It is so yummy! Adding three cups of zucchini as an ingredient not only adds nutrition but makes the bread moist and delicious. And look at the cream cheese swirled throughout. Enjoy it for breakfast, snack or dessert guaranteed to satisfy your carving for something delicious.Continue Reading

Zucchini Boats with Sausage

By Lorraine

Easy recipe for a great summer meal. Garden fresh zucchini boats are stuffed with sausage, rice, tomatoes, Parmesan and mozzarella cheese for a tasty summer entree.

One of the bests things about summer are the fabulous vegetables from the garden, road-side stand or grocery store. Try these garden fresh zucchini boats stuffed with sausage, rice, tomatoes, Parmesan and mozzarella cheese for a tasty summer vegetable entrée.
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Zucchini Bars with Spice Frosting

By Lorraine

Do you like gingerbread? Well, even though there is no ginger in this recipe, these zucchini bars taste just like gingerbread. Perhaps it is the cloves that impart such a pleasant flavor. A thin coating of frosting, lightly spiced with a small amount of ground cloves, make for a very nice bar.

Zucchini Cake

By Lorraine

Almost thirty-six years ago I was in my cousins wedding. Along with the invitations to her bridal shower, I sent blank recipe cards in hopes of gathering a collection of tried-and-true recipes for the bride as she began her new married life. This recipe came from the grooms Aunt Mary. There were no instructions – just an ingredient list, so I wrote out directions. Zucchini Cake is a dense, rich cake and very moist!