More Patty Pan Squash & Chocolate Bread

My squash plants just keep on producing and I am busily trying to play catch up! I am continuing on with the series of recipes on how to use up all of that SQUASH!

I dont know about you but I am ashamed to say that I am SQUASHED OUT here. I just can not eat another sautéed, pan fried, bbq'd, steamed, or broiled squash. I need to get creative.

Today the kids and I made Chocolate with Chocolate Chips Patty Pan Squash Bread from The Harmonious Kitchen. I love how simple and yummy her recipe is.

So the question is how do you turn this plain, white, kind of lumpy looking thing into this! 

Chocolate Pattypan Bread

Note: do not use summer squash other than pattypan for this recipe. Pattypan is significantly less wet than other squash, and a substitution will drastically change your results.

2 C (325 g) grated squash
1 C (770 g) oil
3 eggs (165 g)
3/4 C (159 g) white sugar
1/2 C (105 g) brown sugar
1 1/2 C (245 g) flour
1/2 C (51 g) cocoa
1/4 C (65 g) sour cream
2 T (12 g) baking powder
1 C (155 g) chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350.  Grease and flour a 9×5 loaf pan. Mix oil, eggs, and both sugars until well incorporated.  Blend in flour, cocoa powder, sour cream, and baking powder. Stir in squash and chips.

Bake for 60 – 70 minutes.

NB: I feel absolutely certain that you could make this into a cake too. Just grease and flour two 9″ cake rounds, divide the batter, and bake 25 – 30 minutes.

End Results!

The kids love this bread. They like to eat it with cream cheese on top. Its kind of like an icing when you put it on warm bread. They feel like they are getting dessert and I am happily feeding them squash and whole wheat. WIN WIN!

Side Note: I doubled the recipe and am using the other loaf as a base for a french toast bake. I chopped up the loaf (yes, after all that hard work) added half a loaf of  chopped plain whole wheat bread, four eggs, and 1 cup whole milk. I let it soak for a few hours in the fridge, covered it with tinfoil, and baked it for 1 hour at 350. I will be bringing this to a friend as a thank you for watching my kids while I work. See, you help me, I spoil you with baked goods!