Sweet Zucchini-Spice Bread Recipe from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen

Ingredients:

- 2 cups packed coarsely grated zucchini
- ½ cup light honey
- 6 tbsp melted butter
- 2 large eggs
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup unbleached flour
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 ½ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp nutmeg
- ½ tsp allspice
- ½ tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
Optional: ½ cup chopped nuts and/or ½ cup currants

Preheat oven to 350° and butter a medium loaf pan.

1. Place the grated zucchini in a colander over a bowl or the sink. Let stand for 10 to 20 minutes, and then squeeze out the excess moisture.

2. With an electric mixer at high speed, beat the honey for about 5 minutes, or until white and opaque. Beat in the butter, eggs and vanilla. Beat several minutes more.

3. Sift together the dry ingredients.

4. Add the sifted, dry ingredients, alternately with the zucchini, to the honey mixture, beginning and ending with the dry (flour/zuke/flour/zuke/flour). Mix just enough to blend after each addition.

5. Stir in optional ingredients (or not).

6. Spread into the loaf pan and bake for 35 to 45 minutes.