Warm weather is finally here and summer is just around the corner. With summer comes harvest time for all the vegetables we’re spending our current days planting. What’s your favorite garden vegetable? If you’re a sweet treat lover, your answer may very well be the zucchini.
Zucchini are a versatile vegetable good, not only in savory dishes, but in luscious desserts as well. Once shredded and mixed into batter, you’d never know the confection was full of nutritious squash. It’s the ideal way to get vegetables into your kids or green-hating husband's diet.
While it’s not harvest time yet, zucchini is still available at your local grocer and today just happens to be National Zucchini Bread Day. What better way to celebrate than to bring a few squashes home and bake them into something wonderful?
To help you along, we’ve pulled together a top 10 list of zucchini based sweets to try in your kitchen. We’ve tried to expand from the traditional bread recipe to include a variety of flavors perfect for your family. You’ll find everything from chocolate to peanut butter, lemon to cream cheese in this list.
So what are you waiting for? Pick up this favorite veggie in the produce section and create a culinary masterpiece.
Here’s the top 10 zucchini based sweets for National Zucchini Bread Day.