Zucchini Bread Lab243 recipes

Zucchini Bread Lab · Calculator

Design your own zucchini bread

The sliders start at the typical loaf: the median of 243 recipes for each ingredient, in grams per 100 g of flour. Move any of them within the range that 90% of recipes use (the 5th to the 95th percentile) and the grams update, with where your choice sits among the recipes and what that ingredient does.

This scales ratios; it is not a tested recipe. Each ingredient moves on its own against the flour, and a combination no recipe uses may not bake the way you expect. For the method, pan and oven, follow the real recipes nearest your numbers.

Flour

250 g, about 2 cups, makes one typical loaf.

Start from a recipe

Grams per 100 g of flour

  1. 220 g · 88%

    In the middle: 50% of recipes use more, 49% less.

    Grated zucchini is mostly water: more of it makes a moister, denser loaf that needs a longer bake.

  2. 240 g · 96%about 1 1/4 cups

    In the middle: 50% of recipes use more, 46% less.

    Zucchini adds no sweetness, so most recipes carry more sugar than banana bread.

  3. 130 g · 52%about 1/2 cup

    In the middle: 51% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Usually oil, which keeps the loaf soft for days.

  4. 110 g · 44%about 2 large eggs

    In the middle: 47% of recipes use more, 52% less.

    Eggs hold a wet batter together.

  5. 3 g · 1.2%

    In the middle: 47% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Cinnamon, sometimes nutmeg, is most of the flavor.

  6. 8 g · 3.3%

    In the middle: 49% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Baking soda and powder lift a heavy, wet batter.

  7. 3.5 g · 1.4%

    In the middle: 45% of recipes use more, 48% less.

    Salt balances the sugar.

Your zucchini bread

Your zucchini bread in grams, with approximate volumes
IngredientGrams
Flour250 gabout 2 cups
Zucchini220 g
Sugarwhite sugar, brown sugar, honey and syrups240 gabout 1 1/4 cups
Fatbutter, oil and shortening130 gabout 1/2 cup
Eggwhole eggs, yolks and whites110 gabout 2 large eggs
Spicecinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and other ground spices3 g
Leaveningbaking soda and baking powder8 g
Salt3.5 g
Total965 g

965 g in all from 250 g of flour, counting only the groups above.

Closest real recipe: Zucchini Bread (natashaskitchen.com).

BakeThe median of 224 recipes is 350°F (175°C), most for 50 to 60 minutes at their own size. A bigger or smaller batch, or a different pan, changes the time.

The 3 real recipes nearest your numbers

Measured on zucchini, sugar, fat, egg, spice, leavening and salt at once. These are published, tested recipes: follow one for its method, pan and timing, or load its percentages and adjust from there.

  1. 1

    Zucchini Bread · natashaskitchen.com

    zucchini 99% · sugar 80% · fat 58% · egg 40% · spice 1.4% · leavening 3.4% · salt 1.6%

  2. 2

    Easy Dessert Recipe: Chocolate Chip-Studded Zucchini Bread · 12tomatoes.com

    zucchini 66% · sugar 107% · fat 58% · egg 40% · spice 1.4% · leavening 3.4% · salt 1.2%

  3. 3

    Zucchini Bread · bakedbyanintrovert.com

    zucchini 74% · sugar 83% · fat 52% · egg 48% · spice 1.2% · leavening 2.5% · salt 1.4%

How the calculator works

Every recipe is reduced to baker's percentages: grams of each ingredient group per 100 g of flour. The starting point is the median of all 243 recipes for each group separately, so no single recipe is exactly the starting loaf. Grams are your flour weight times each percentage, rounded to the nearest 5 g above 50 g and the nearest gram or half gram below.

“More than 80% of recipes” counts the recipes with strictly less of that ingredient per gram of flour. The nearest recipes are measured on every ingredient at once, each scaled by how much recipes vary on it, so a wide-ranging ingredient does not outweigh a narrow one.

Only the groups listed are counted. Vanilla, spices, mix-ins and toppings are left out unless they have their own slider. Volumes are approximate: flour at 125 g a cup, sugar 200 g, butter or oil 225 g, a large egg 50 g.