Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread

I love giving my kids this recipe because it's full of healthy stuff and my kids love it because it has chocolate chips in it!! My good friend visited and even her picky kids ate this! They called it "chocolate bread".  These are more work than some of the other muffins so make a double batch and freeze some for lunches or quick breakfasts or snacks!

Wet Ingredients:
2 cups zucchini, shredded and drained of extra liquid (I don't peel mine but you can if you want)
1 cup carrot, shredded and drained of extra liquid
2 eggs
2 small bananas, smushed
1/2 cup greek yogurt
1/2 cup applesauce
2 teaspoons vanilla
3/4 cup sugar (adjust up or down to preference)

Dry Ingredients:
2 cups white wheat flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
chocolate chips, to preference

Ingredients:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. 

Prepare your muffin or loaf pan by spraying, butter and flouring or using liners.  Then I chop my zucchini, put it in the food processor, and pulse until small pieces.  I then squeeze it out with a cheese cloth and repeat with the carrots (the carrots hold a lot less water so I do them separately).  Do squeeze out the water so you get fluffy muffins or loaves.  Then I put the zucchini and carrots in a bowl and combine with the rest of the wet ingredients.  In a separate bowl, whisk together dry ingredients (we don't add the chocolate chips until the end - my kids like to put them in each well).  Combine the two by hand so as not to overmix with a mixer and pour the batter into your prepared pan.  For muffins these took about 18 minutes but check for doneness with a cake tester which should come out clean (minus the chocolate!) once they are cooked.

Adapted from:  https://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/incredible-carrot-zucchini-muffins-368242#activity-feed