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.