It might be labor day but Meatless Monday never takes a day off! I love all the fall pumpkin recipes but I am not ready to embrace them quite yet given that it is still 90 degrees in the DC area. I am excited about apples though! Given that the Jewish holidays are starting next week I thought it was the perfect time to whip up an apple honey zucchini bread to share with you. Please join Tina and I for Meatless Monday.
I really enjoy cooking seasonally and apples and zucchini are perfect right now and pretty inexpensive. In the Jewish tradition, honey signifies a “sweet new year”. With the start of school and the start of a new season, it seems the perfect time to wish you all a sweet new year.
What I really love about this recipe is that it has no added white sugar. I have used a small amount of honey and the sweetness of the apples to provide just the right amount of goodness. I tried making this with other flours and didn’t get the consistency I was looking for so kept this recipe with a white flour. Feel free to experiment with your favorite flour. I think it came out fabulous hope you enjoy! It’s perfect for breakfast or paired with your afternoon coffee.
Apple Honey Zucchini Bread
09/07/2015
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 c grated zucchini
- 3/4 c grated apples
- 1/4 c oil
- 1/2 c honey
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 1 1/2 c flour of your choice ( I used white)
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg
- 1/2 c chopped walnuts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350
- Whisk together honey, oil, eggs & vanilla
- Stir in zucchini & apples
- Combine remaining dry ingredients in a small bowl and fold them into batter
- Spray loaf pan with cooking spray
- Bake 55-60 min until golden brown
What’s your favorite Fall Food? I am starting to think about cooking with squash again.
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I am not ready for pumpin yet either, but this looks like the perfect early fall recipe! I will definitely need to give it a try this week.
Thanks I really enjoyed it with my coffee this week
Soooo with you on the pumpkin! This sounds like a great fall compromise! I am thinking of apple picking with the kids this fall and this might be a good recipe!
I plan to go apple picking with the kids too so I guess I need to come up with more apple recipes. Have a great week!
You know I love my zucchini bread, and I love apples, so BOOM this sounds fantastic!
Thanks friend You will love it then! have a great day
I love anything with zucchini in it! I will need to try this. I’ve never done it with apples before. Yum!
The apples give it a nice subtle sweetness which is nice.
What an awesome combination of flavors- I haven’t made zucchini bread yet but I want to ASAP after seeing this yummy recipe!
thanks! I think you and the kiddos will love it.
Oooooohhh this sounds soooooo wonderful! I lovvveee bread like this, and with apples…..mmmm that just screams fall! This is a good one my friend! YUM!
Thanks so much! It’s super easy too. Happy meatless Monday 🙂
This looks great! I have a standby chocolate zucchini bread recipe but this looks like a nice way to mix it up and really bring in a taste of fall. And I cannot wait for the giant honeycrisp apples to be back in full force (and not $25/apple) at the store.
I love the honey crisps too and they are just starting to show up looking yummy.
I love this spin on zucchini bread! Apples are one of my favorite fruits year round, but I love baking with them in the fall.
They are great to bake with! Enjoy
I never get into the whole pumpkin thing, even though I like it. I think that this bread sounds delicious. My husband keeps bugging me to make some, so consider me inspired. 🙂
awesome! Hope he enjoys it
I am a sucker for anything apple this time of year! And I love the addition of zucchini! Always nice to sneak in some extra veggies! 🙂
thanks and yes sneak them in where ever you can for sure
I can just imagine how tasty this is! It’s like a knife in my heart everytime I think about zucchini and the fact that our garden yielded zero this year. That’s just so wrong. But the neighborhood apple trees seem to be thriving, and the deer are eating all the low-hanging ones. Haha!
I have garden envy too but oh well maybe next year!
I love Zucchini Bread! I made a similar bread to this one a few weeks ago. They simply taste so good!
I will try this recipe:)
Thanks they are so good!
Yum! I love anything apple! And what a great way to use up all that zucchini!
Thanks hope you enjoy! Great fuel for your long runs
That looks really good. It would be really good with coffee in the morning. I love zuchini bread may have to give this a try. Have a great Labor Day.
Thanks so much! It is great with coffee and awesome runner fuel. Thanks for stopping by today
This is perfect! I was going to search for zucchini bread recipes this morning… saved me a task 🙂 I’ve never made one with apples or honey before, will be good to try.
Hope you enjoy! Great runner fuel. Have a wonderful week
I love apples and apple recipes. I’m not a huge pumpkin fan, but I suck it up because my husband and daughter are! I’d rather have apple spice or ginger bread for fall flavors. When we lived back in Northern VA. I was surprised that the schools did not give Jewish Holidays off- I thought everyone celebrated. Growing up in this part California, and with my own kids now, Jewish Holidays are a part of our culture ( even though we aren’t Jewish) I still teach my children the rituals and traditions– like the symbol and meaning behind the apple and dipping it into the sweet honey.
I know some of the neighboring counties have off school but we do not. I love the apple spices too
This recipe is great!! Our garden is overflowing with zucchini and this is the year of the apple!
Definitely hope you like it!
I do love zucchini bread – and the apple would make a great addition!
Thanks hope you enjoy
Many fall favorites but lately pumpkin has been on my mind for recipes. After your recipe I’m guessing apples will be on my mind.
Lol I do love pumpkin but not quite there yet
Love this, delicious combination of a couple of my fall favorites!!
I’m all over squash and worried all the fall squashes and apples would get past over this year from pumpkin recipes I have been seeing.
I live squash too. Too early for pumpkin
Great combination here!! I used to use apple sauce all the time in baking, and the zucchini must be a perfect compliment to the apple flavor. It also adds bulk to recipes without extra calories. Win! Thanks for the idea!
Exactly! Hope you give it a try have a great week
I love zucchini bread! This combo of flavors sounds divine. It always feels like an accomplishment to me to get a recipe to taste good without using sugar. Love that a bit of honey is used in place of it here.
I really didn’t miss the sugar at all! Hope you enjoy
WOW! This looks amazing! What a great recipe to kick off early fall! 🙂
Thanks so much hope you give it a try
I wonder how this will work with quinoa flour!
I did not try that but please let me know if you give it a go!
Looks yummy! I’ve been trying to bake more for the kids so that they eat fewer processed snacks. I’ll definitely add this to the rotation.
Great I hope they like it!
This looks fantastic!! I want to make one and put it in the kid’s lunches!! I’ll be sure and let you know if I do 🙂 I love apple and zucchini together. Have a wonderful rest of the holiday!
Thanks so much and I hope your kids enjoy it. I think I am going to make it again this week because I already ate it all 🙂
I love anything made with zucchini or squash. I used to make plain zucchini bread years ago. I think it would be much tastier with applies and honey. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks hope you give it a try and enjoy!
This looks so good. I love baking with zucchini, it makes it soooo moist!
It really does and no sugar!
I’m actually not a fan of pumpkin at all, but this looks like a great alternative for the fall. Thanks!
Awesome hope you enjoy!
This sounds great! Love the addition of zucchini! I will have to try!!
Thanks! Enjoy
one of my favorite things about fall is the beautiful, delicious apples. love this recipe!
Thanks so much! The apples are my favorite too
Yes to no white sugar!! I love it when I find a recipe that excludes it (and still tastes good).
It really does hope you like it!
That looks like it would make the perfect breakfast!
It would! Hope you enjoy
The bread looks like my mother’s yummy rum cake. Why did you put soda and powder ?
Most baked goods have both baking soda and powder in them it really gives the best consistency. Hope you give it a go
This looks delish! I love when all the fall squashes come out- that is my favorite!
I can’t wait to cook with all the squash 🙂
So delicious! Made this with maple syrup (totally didn’t have enough honey) and it was incredible – great fall flavors!!! love love love 🙂
oh awesome! I’m so glad you liked it thanks for letting me know.
YUM! This recipe looks so good. I love apple bread and zucchini bread, so the two together has to be like heaven!
Thanks so much I really did love the way it came together.
I’ve been eating a lot of zucchini lately and this recipe will just continue the trend. Looks amazing!! My favorite fall food is squash – the aforementioned along with butternut, spaghetti and acorn – so excited to see them in the stores soon 🙂
I love all the fall squash too so yum! I hope you give this one a try thanks for stopping by!