Heavenly Homemakers

Encouraging women in homemaking, healthy eating and parenting

  • Home
    • About
    • FAQs
  • Recipes
    • Bread and Breakfast
    • Condiments
    • Dairy
    • Main Dishes
    • Side Dishes and Snacks
    • Desserts
    • Gluten Free
    • Instant Pot
    • Crock Pot
    • Heavenly Homemaker’s Weekly Menus
  • Homemaking
    • Real Food Sources
  • Store
  • Contact
    • Advertise
    • Disclosure
    • Privacy Policy
  • Simple Meals
  • Club Members!

Zucchini Recipes: Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

July 19, 2009 by Laura 24 Comments

This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission.

Tis the season for zucchini to grow into the size of baseball bats (and be used as such if you live at my house). Tis the season for everyone to lock their doors while at church…just to prevent someone from unloading their overgrown zucchini into other people’s cars when no one’s looking. Tis the season for people to start offering to pay you money just to take zucchini off their hands.

It’s amazing how one little hill can produce enough zucchini to fill an entire kitchen. (Did I mention that I didn’t even plant zucchini this year?!)

We’ve eaten a bunch of zucchini in stir fry or simply sauted it in a bit of olive oil. It’s SO good like that. I’ve already shredded a bunch and put it into the freezer. Now, I’m on a quest to figure out some great recipes that will sneak zucchini into a variety of dishes, making them more nutritious. And well…a zucchini can only serve as a baseball bat for so long. Eventually it must be eaten.

I don’t like eating a huge zucchini as is. The seeds are larger than my teeth and the skin is tougher than I prefer. I like shredding the large ones in my food processor and stirring them into zucchini bread (whole wheat and honey recipe coming soon). 

While making zucchini bread last week (and then looking around at all the other huge zucchini in my kitchen) I realized that surely one could come up with a cookie, or at least a cookie bar that included zucchini. So I tinkered around. I discovered this:  Cookies are a delicious way to eat more zucchini. 

Here’s the recipe I came up with:

Giant Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies Yum

2 cups shredded zucchini
1/2 cup melted butter
1 cup organic sucanat (dehydrated cane sugar juice)
1 egg
1/2 t. salt
1 t. baking soda
3 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
3/4 cup chocolate chips

Shred zucchini (I use a food processor). In a large mixing bowl mix sucanat, flour, salt and baking soda. Stir in shredded zucchini, melted butter and egg. Fold in chocolate chips. Use a large scoop to put 1 1/2 T. sized balls of dough onto a cookie sheet. Bake in a 350° oven for 15 minutes. Makes about 20 giant cookies.

zucchinicookiessm

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars

Follow the same recipe as above, only spread the dough into a 9×13 inch pan. Bake in a 350° oven for 20-25 minutes.

zucchinibars1sm

My husband, kids and I all loved these. Zucchini makes them moist…and of course chocolate makes everything good.

Coming up in my next Zucchini Recipes post…I’ll share my whole wheat and honey zucchini bread and muffin recipe!
————————————

Go check out  Amy’s awesome list of zucchini recipes!

[print_link]

Heavenly Homemaker's Club Members: Access your homepage and all your fantastic resources here! Not a member yet? Please join us!

Filed Under: Desserts, Natural Sugar Treats, Recipes

Comments

  1. Christy says

    July 20, 2009 at 6:55 am

    We love zucchini cookies! My recipe is from the book Simply In Season. ;)

    Reply
  2. snow white says

    July 20, 2009 at 7:17 am

    those zucchini bars look amazing! I’ve never tried zucchini cookies — but they’re going on my list too. yum.

    Reply
  3. beth says

    July 20, 2009 at 7:50 am

    Thanks for the great recipes….I have a somewhat dumb question….when you shred your zucchini, do you take the peel off and the seeds out? thanks so much!

    Reply
  4. Kristin says

    July 20, 2009 at 9:13 am

    We put zucchini in anything made with spaghetti sauce. Shredded zucchini in sauce over pasta or meatballs, sliced layered in lasagna. We also like it sliced, breaded in italian bread crumbs with a little parmesan stirred in, fried in olive oil and dipped in marinara.

    Reply
  5. Hamons Family says

    July 20, 2009 at 10:04 am

    Yum, thanks for sharing. Our zucchini peaks in about a month (we hope), so I’ll try some of these recipes soon. I make a zucchini-oat-raisin muffin recipe every year that we enjoy. It will be fun to try new recipes!

    Reply
  6. Stacy says

    July 21, 2009 at 8:53 pm

    This recipe looks so great. I was wondering if I can use sugar in place of the sucanat. Thanks for the great recipe!

    Reply
    • Laura says

      July 21, 2009 at 9:59 pm

      Sure, you can substitute sugar for the sucanat no problem…one for one. :)

      Reply
  7. Karen says

    July 22, 2009 at 7:36 pm

    I made a double batch of the zucchini c. c. bars and they were wonderful. Thanks so much for posting your recipes. We ate one 9 x 13 pan and I froze the other pan of bars.

    Reply
  8. Jennifer says

    July 22, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Well, it may not be high on the most-nutritious list, but I make chocolate zucchini mini-breads that are quite yummy! Recipe here: http://savingandgiving.blogspot.com/2008/09/chocolate-zucchini-bread.html

    Reply
  9. Claudea says

    July 23, 2009 at 2:31 pm

    Here is a zucchini breakfast casserole that sounds good:

    http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/zucchini_breakfast_casserole/

    Enjoy!

    Reply
  10. Lisa says

    July 27, 2009 at 7:39 pm

    Can you use honey instead of Sucanat??

    Reply
  11. Genevieve says

    May 9, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    I’m liking all these zucchini recipes…we have planted a garden and hope to be harvesting many zucchini’s in the future! Love the healthy recipes, sucanet is a must in my pantry.

    Reply
  12. Amy says

    July 27, 2010 at 12:30 pm

    Thanks so much for these! They are wonderful! I made a couple of additions, some coconut oil, etc…and think I will even try adding some cinnamon next time! They will definitely make it to my “loved” recipes collection! :D

    Reply
  13. Lee says

    April 1, 2011 at 5:56 am

    These look yummy – I saw a similar recipe a few days ago and the “chef” said that if you wanted to hide the fact that you added zuchinni you could just peel it first.

    Reply
  14. bridget says

    September 11, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    I made these today and the batter was awfully dry. I had to add abt 1 c of applesauce and some coconut oil to get the batter to stick together. Has that happened to you? by the way they came out delish!!

    Reply
  15. Sarah G says

    September 21, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    Super yummy! My family including a very picky 3yr old devoured them. A cookie I actually feel good about offering him. Thanks for a great cookie and a use for the ridiculously large zucchini I grew.

    Reply
  16. abbie says

    May 30, 2012 at 8:19 pm

    i made these tonight! i did not have luck, first i fallowed directions and it was just was not wet at all, was very floury, so i added another half cup of butter and another egg, for a total of 2 eggs and one cup of sugar. so i sprinkled alittle more soda bc i was afraid it would be enough. finally looked like cookie dough consistency. they baked nice looked pretty, they had a nice texture they were bitter! the choc chips were semi sweet chips, and the zucchini was from farmers market the only thing i did different was i didnt use a food processor so i used my cheese grater. i used whole wheat flour but it was store baught not ground myself. all components tasted fine seperate. im thinking it was adding the extra soda? i would appreciate any thaughts on this.

    Reply
    • [email protected] says

      June 2, 2012 at 6:33 pm

      I would bet the extra baking soda did it. That stuff does have a strong
      taste if you use too much. :)

      Reply
  17. Harriet Glassco says

    August 8, 2012 at 12:19 pm

    Thank you! What a yummy recipe! My 4-year-old loves about every veggie besides zucchini, so I am thrilled to have a new way to “bury” zucchini in a healthy cookie! These turned out great and we love them! (This was my first experiment using sucanat, which I heard about from your site.) Love your site! Blessings, Harriet G.

    Reply
  18. Crystal says

    January 1, 2013 at 7:46 pm

    Laura, is there something missing from this recipe??? We began making this recipe – doubled! only to discover that the wet ingredients are quite lacking for the dry ingredients to become properly moistened. It was a very, very dry mixture when following the recipe as outlined above. We then perused the comments and added some applesauce to moisten it as another commenter had done. I just wanted to double check to see if the recipe is indeed complete or an ingredient was omitted when it was written. We usually have such wonderful results with your fantastic recipes! :)

    Reply
    • Laura says

      January 8, 2013 at 10:41 pm

      Well shucks, I’m not sure what happened. It could be that my zucchini is “wetter” than normal? Maybe try less flour next time to see if that helps. :)

      Reply
      • Mary Jo says

        September 25, 2014 at 4:27 am

        It could be a difference between freshly – milled flour and store – bought perhaps?

        Reply
  19. Barbra says

    October 2, 2013 at 12:33 pm

    The same thing happened to me, the batter is very dry. After reading the other posts, I’m going to add some applesauce.

    Reply
  20. Meredith says

    August 17, 2014 at 11:18 am

    My batter was dry, too, but I didn’t read the comments about applesauce until after I put it in the oven. :-P I just kept mixing (gently), and it all moistened up nicely. Maybe the zucchini releases some moisture after a few minutes and helps it all stick together. Haven’t tasted them yet, but they smell delicious!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *


Join Our Community!

 Facebook Twitter RSS E-mail Instagram Pinterest

Popular Posts

~ Will All of the Real Moms Please Stand Up?
~ Easy! Stir-and-Pour Whole Wheat Bread
~ How to Make Gatorade
~ 31 Real Food Breakfast Ideas
~ Dear Teenage Girls...
~ When Mom Takes a Step Back
~ The Inexpensive Health Insurance We Love!
~ Let's Talk Real Food Grocery Budgets

Check out our latest posts!

  • What to Make When It’s Too Hot to Make Dinner
  • How God Used My Cheesecake
  • Big Family Food and Fun: Meals and Photos from Last Week (May 17-27, 2023)
  • The Coppinger Castle
  • How Our Youngest Became Oldest of 9
Home  ~  Simple Meals  ~  Club Membership  ~  Shop  ~  Privacy Policy  ~  Disclosure  ~ Contact

Copyright © 2023 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in