📋Healthy Zucchini Bars recipe

Zucchini bars cut in a pan, with some missing and a red silicone knife

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📋Healthy Zucchini Bars recipe

These These Healthy Zucchini Bars are not only wholesome they are downright addictive! Chock-full of nutritious ingredients like fresh zucchini, carrots, dried cherries, chia seeds, unsweetened applesauce, and cinnamon, they make a great healthy snack or dessert and are ideal for packing along in the lunch bag!

Course Dessert, Snack

Cuisine American, Canadian, North American

Keyword bar, carrot, healthy, zucchini

Special Diet Vegetarian, weight watchers

Prep Time 10

Cook Time 25

Total Time 35

Servings bars

Calories 185kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Equipment

Ingredients

¾ cups all-purpose flour
¾ cups whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon baking soda
⅓ cup chia seeds
2 eggs slightly beaten
1½ cups shredded carrots *See recipe NOTE if using frozen shredded carrots
2 cups packed cup shredded zucchini *See recipe NOTE if using frozen shredded zucchini
⅓ cup packed brown sugar
½ cup dried cherries
¼ cup canola oil
⅔ cup unsweetened applesauce
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F/176 degrees C. Spray a 9X13 baking pan with non-stick cooking spray.
In a large bowl combine flours, baking powder, cinnamon, chia seeds, baking soda and brown sugar.
¾ cups all-purpose flour, ¾ cups whole wheat flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, ½ teaspoon cinnamon, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ⅓ cup chia seeds, ⅓ cup packed brown sugar
Slightly beat eggs.
In another large bowl stir together eggs, carrot, zucchini, dried cherries, oil, applesauce and vanilla.
Hint: To better distribute the cherry flavor, chop them up. But be sure to soak them in hot water for 2 minutes and drain, because they are much easier to chop!
2 eggs, 1½ cups shredded carrots, 2 cups packed cup shredded zucchini, ½ cup dried cherries, ¼ cup canola oil, ⅔ cup unsweetened applesauce, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Add zucchini mixture to flour mixture, stirring just until combined.
*If it looks too wet, add a little more all-purpose flour. If it looks too dry, add a little more water. Do this by the tbsp, so you don't end up adding too much at once.
Spread batter in prepared baking pan. Bake 20- 25 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean and bars are firm to the touch.
* I usually bake for 20 minutes, then test it. It was perfect for me at 25 minutes.
Cool in pan and then cut into bars. *You can cut it into 12 or 18 bars.

Notes

* NOTE: If you use FROZEN shredded zucchini or carrots, use 3 cups of zucchini and 2 cups of carrots and squeeze out as much liquid as you can. Use ½ the amount of apple sauce and add a little more at a time, until it looks like the texture of a loaf batter.

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