Bread? I think it’s more like a cake. Whatever you call it, it’s delicious!

I followed the recipe from The Joy of Vegan Baking.  It’s made with whole wheat pastry flour, sugar, zucchini, applesauce, a little oil, cinnamon and nutmeg.  The recipe calls for 1/2 tsp of nutmeg, but I only put in 1/4 tsp and added a 1/4 tsp of allspice.  The spice in the bread is good, but I will add more allspice next time just because I really can’t taste it and I love it.  The recipe makes 2 loaves, or “cakes” as I don’t have 2 loaf pans and used 2 round cake pans instead.

To be interesting, I made a crumble topping for it that really jazzed it up.  I used 1 cup all purpose flour, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup chopped pecans, 1 tsp cinnamon (would have used more, but ran out) and 2 TB margarine.  As you can see in the not-so-pretty photo, the topping was slightly dry.  I will add 3 TB total of margarine next time.

The best part is that I substituted applesauce for half of the oil to cut out some fat and calories.  I used up a homemade applesauce, which was really chunky, so every so often, you’ll get a big bite of apples in this cake.  Which makes me wonder… I bet this cake would be delicious with apples instead of zucchini.

For dinner the other night, I made another batch of my Three Bean Soup. This is so easy to make and so tasty. I was running short of time, so I decided to use my little chopper (it’s like a mini food processor) to chop up all the veggies. That was a big time saver and I think I will do that from now on.

On the side, we had some of vegandad’s focaccia. I’ve actually made this once before, but never blogged about it because it didn’t turn out quite right. I was not very precise when measuring the flour, which made the bread turn out a little on the brick-ish side. It was still very good, but I realized right away that I need to be more careful when measuring for baked goods.

This batch turned out much better. So fluffy and yummy… I did substitute dried basil for the sage and it was delicious! Since my mixer does the kneading for me, I will definitely be making this all the time. It is awesome on it’s own, but it would be great for veggie sammies or paninis.