Sourdough Discard Zucchini Bread Recipe
Faith Gorsky · anediblemosaic.com · 2026 · 12 servings
Against 243 zucchini bread recipes
More sugar than 95% of recipes and more spice than 98%.
How it compares
Against the typical loaf: the median of 243 zucchini bread recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- More sugar than 95% of recipes: 154% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 96%.
- More spice than 98% of recipes: 3.9% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.2%, about 3.5 times as much.
- More salt than 97% of recipes: 3% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 1.4%, about twice as much.
Ingredients (15)
- Butter and flour ((for the loaf pan))n/a
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour≈ 250 g
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon≈ 8 g
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder≈ 7 g
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt≈ 8 g
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda≈ 3 g
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg≈ 1.3 g
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves ((reduce to 1/8 teaspoon if you're sensitive to cloves))≈ 0.7 g
- 1/2 cup full-fat buttermilk ((see Notes for substitute))≈ 122 g
- 1/2 cup avocado oil ((or vegetable oil or canola oil))≈ 109 g
- 1/2 cup sourdough discard ((see Notes))≈ 120 g
- 1 3/4 cups light brown sugar ((lightly packed))≈ 385 g
- 2 large eggs≈ 100 g
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract≈ 8 g
- 225 grams shredded zucchini225 g
flour 250 gbatter 1347 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 243 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Zucchini90% · 54th percentile · median 88%
- Sugar154% · 96th percentile · median 96%
- Fat44% · 32nd percentile · median 52%
- Egg40% · 35th percentile · median 44%
- Spice3.9% · 99th percentile · median 1.2%
- Leavening4% · 72nd percentile · median 3.3%
- Salt3% · 98th percentile · median 1.4%
Oven
- Temperature
- 350°F / 175°C
- median 350°F
- Time
- 60 to 75 minutes
- median 55 minutes
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