Easy Zucchini Bread Recipe with Pineapple - Best Moist Breakfast Bake

This easy moist zucchini bread recipe is a family favourite and a freezer staple. With added cinnamon and crushed pineapple, it is a delicious sweet breakfast or afternoon snack.

Ingredients for Easy Zucchini Bread

In my humble opinion, this is the best ever zucchini loaf recipe! In order to make these cinnamon spiced loaves, you'll need:

• Flour - either all purpose flour or plain flour work in this recipe.
• Ground cinnamon
• Baking soda
• Baking powder
• Salt
• Sugar - superfine granulated or caster sugar are my go to sugars for this recipe.
• Eggs
• Oil - I recommend using flavourless oil, such as vegetable oil, canola oil, grapeseed or rapeseed oils. If you are a fan of baking with olive oil, you can make an olive oil zucchini bread simply by substituting the flavourless oil with olive oil. Do just be aware that this will impact the flavour.
• Vanilla extract
• Pineapple - tinned crushed pineapple is the best option. If you can't find crushed pineapple, you can substitute with other tinned pineapple that you 'crush' yourself either with a food processor or by breaking it up with a knife or your fingers. I've had to do this many times over the years as crushed pineapple wasn't really available in UK grocery stores until recently.
• Zucchini - or in some countries 'courgette'. You want this roughly grated.

How to Make My Classic Zucchini Bread

Grating Zucchini

So, in order to make this recipe, you'll ideally have a reasonable grater for your zucchini.

I once made this recipe using a microplane intended for zesting lemons. It was a long and arduous process. While it did technically work - I would certainly not suggest it!

To grate a zucchini, the best option is a classic box grater, using the side with the large shredding holes (not the mandolin side and also not the finer shredding/grating sides). This will give you nice shredded pieces that are large enough to add a small bit of pleasant texture to the bread.

Easy Batter

The batter for this recipe is a bit odd, but couldn't be easier! This my grandmother's zucchini bread recipe and is a classic of quick mixing.

All you need to do is add all of your wet ingredients - the oil, eggs, vanilla, pineapple, zucchini and also the sugar - to a large bowl and whisk together. I like to use a flat whisk because it avoids bits getting trapped inside the wire cage of a classic balloon whisk.

In a separate bowl stir your dry ingredients - the flour, cinnamon, leavening agents and salt. Add this mixture to your wet ingredients and whisk to combine. You don't want to over beat, but you do want to ensure there aren't any unmixed pockets of dried ingredients.

Preparing Loaf Tins

This recipe is incredibly moist, this means that you may find your zucchini bread stick to the baking pan, if you don't properly prepare your tins. These need to be thoroughly greased and floured, or, better yet, lined with parchment paper.

For a long time I was a baking tin lining skeptic - I didn't see the point. And, I do maintain that grease and flour is usually more than sufficient to get a bake out of the pan.

The amount of moisture here though makes the parchment paper super useful. You can line the tin with overhanging parchment, which will make it easy to lift the loaf out of the tin without having to flip it. The loaves can then be cooled easily on a wire rack. Before gently removing the paper.

FAQs for Easy Moist Zucchini Bread

If you like this recipe, give these other breakfast breads a try:

• Pumpkin and Pecan Bread
• Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips
• Large Batch Spiced Banana Bread
• Nectarine Bread

Zucchini Bread

Liz Mincin

Easy pineapple zucchini bread recipe with cinnamon. This dairy free zucchini bread makes for the perfect moist breakfast bake.

4.9 from 9 votes

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 50 minutes mins

Course Breakfast, Snack

Cuisine American

Servings 16 slices

Calories 326 kcal

Equipment

• large mixing bowl
• 2 standard sized loaf pan you can also make this in alternate baking tins such as muffin pans, mini loaf pans, etc.
• flat whisk

Ingredients

 

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• 3 cups all purpose flour or plain flour
• 1½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon baking powder
• 2 cups superfine granulated sugar or caster sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 cup vegetable oil or other flavourless oil
• 8 oz tinned crushed pineapple partially drained
• 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups grated zucchini (aka courgette)

Instructions

 

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175C/150C Fan) and prepare two standard sized loaf pans. These can be greased and floured or lined with parchment paper.
• In a medium bowl, stir together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and baking powder.
• In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, eggs, oil, pineapple, vanilla and zucchini.
• Add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients until just combined (avoid over-beating).
• Pour the batter into your prepared loaf tins, filling about ½ to ¾ full.
• Bake until a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean - checking regularly after 40 minutes.
• Remove from the oven and allow to cool in the tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a baking rack to cool completely.

Notes

If using a different sized baking tin, the times will vary.

See blog post for more tips.

Nutrition

Calories: 326kcalCarbohydrates: 46.1gProtein: 3.9gFat: 14.9gSaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 35mgSodium: 321mgFiber: 1.4gSugar: 26.9gCalcium: 27mgIron: 1mg

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