hi welcome back to rule of thumb today we're going to talk about big breaths
quick breads do not involve yeast or waiting for the bread to rise they
simply involve combining the ingredients and the combination of baking soda and
or baking powder is what will cause the bread to rise I have been working on
recipe for many years that is a very adaptable recipe as
you've seen in my past videos I do like things that are adaptable and can change
on the fly based on the ingredients I have on hand so this recipe is exactly
that today I'm gonna make zucchini bread but as I go through the recipe with you
I will give you some of the suggestions on changes that you can and cannot make
I will also try to put the recipe in the description box below as you know I'm
new to this so I'm still trying to figure everything out but I will talk
about it as we go through the video what we're gonna do from here is I'm gonna
get all the ingredients together and then I'll bring it back and we'll put it
together and get it any other ok so we're back we've got all the ingredients
together so we're gonna go through these one by one we're going to talk about
some of the things you can and can't do as far as substitutions and then how
we're going to proceed from them so the first thing we're going to start out
with is I have here one cup of applesauce now I use applesauce instead
of oil just because I feel it's a healthier option is absolutely not
necessary you can substitute even amount one cup of any oil of your choice but I
like the applesauce out like Moisture it gives and it makes me feel a little bit
better about eating it so you know it is what it is so we're going to combine
that with three eggs and I've got two and a quarter cups of sugar here so as
you can see those three eggs two and a quarter cups of sugar we're gonna
combine those get those all mixed together now sugar wise I've used white
sugar I've used the pure cane sugar I would imagine you could mix white and
brown if you want although I've never done that because I
really feel the need for the sweetness so two and a quarter cups of sure
alright then what I got here in this bowl is I have got one teaspoon of
baking powder and one teaspoon of baking soda that is a no change part of the
recipe so you're always going to have one teaspoon of each in there I also
have one teaspoon of salt as far as I'm concerned the salt is necessary to bring
out the sweetness of the recipe if you really are trying to go no sodium at all
I imagined you could leave it out but it might alter the flavor slightly what I
have here is I have two teaspoons of pumpkin pie spice and one teaspoon of
ginger now these warm seasonings are something you can vary widely I've used
cinnamon and nutmeg I've used cinnamon nutmeg and ginger I've added allspice in
there so really any combination up to three teaspoons of any warm spices work
well when you but you want to consider what you're add in as far as fruit
and/or vegetable this so that's where this measuring cup comes up so you
always want to have two cups of what I consider an at it what I have here is I
have some grated zucchini in the freezer and when I thought it out it was a
little less than two cups so I added a little bit of apple sauce to it to bring
it up to the two cup mark I have you Zhu kini i have used shredded carrot you do
have to shred it finely I have used canned pie filling Apple
blueberry lemon I've used I've used whole fruit like canned fruit like
mandarin oranges cherries those types of things it really is a very forgiving
recipe you just want to cups of a moist I know that's you know a word that most
people can't stand but it's the only word that accurately describes what
you're looking for so two cups of them added and then what I have here is three
cups of flour I have used all-purpose I've used self-rising I've used bread
flour what I have here today is a white whole wheat flour so again super
forgiving the last thing you see here I have one cup of walnuts nuts are a plus
or minus some people like them some people don't sometimes I add them
sometimes I don't you could also do chocolate chips peanut butter chips you
could do coconut I mean the possibilities are really endless and
I've tried pretty much everything I will say if you're going to use any type of
chip whether it be chocolate chip peanut butter chips butterscotch chips any of
those types of things when I use those I mix them in with my
flour to coat them with the flour which helps them to more evenly distribute in
the batter so just a little secret tip there so that's the cast of ingredients
what I'm gonna do from here is I'm going to mine the one cup of applesauce the
two and a quarter cups of sugar and the three eggs I'm gonna use the whisk
attachment on my KitchenAid stand mixer and I'm gonna let this go for a few
minutes until it's light and frothy and I'll bring you back so you can see what
I'm talking about okay and we're back so I have this in my mixer here for a
couple minutes I just want to kind of bring you in I'm not sure how well you
can see this this way so that's really what we're looking for just for it to be
well incorporated to get some air in there kind of light and frothy you see
there's some bubbles on the top of there I think you can see that so that's where
we want to be with that mixture from here what we're going to do is mix in
all of the dry ingredients so our flour and all of our spices in the salt and
the baking powder and the baking soda and get that well incorporated and then
I'll bring back so you can see where I just wanted to bring you back real quick
just mention what I do if you can see here with the flower is I put all of my
dry ingredients in there all of my spices and everything and I used a whisk
and I whisked it up what I find is this just make sure that it's evenly
distributed you won't end up with any lumps or anything that's not evenly
mixed so I just thought I'd bring you back and show you that and now we're
gonna get this mixed in with the egg mixture and I'll bring you back okay
we're back so a couple things I wanted to mention that I should have probably
said in the beginning I did get my oven started preheating to 375 it's always
best any time you're gonna bake anything first thing you do turn your oven on
that way by the time you're ready to put it in the oven your ovens at the
temperature you need it to be and you're not waiting to get things in the oven so
the oven is heating up to 375 the other thing I wanted to mention is when you're
using a KitchenAid mixer if you're using a KitchenAid mixer make sure that you
pausing as you're mixing to scrape the sides of the bowl unless you have the
scraper paddle but if not make sure your script synthesizable and that's what
will ensure that everything's getting thoroughly mixed you can certainly do
this with a hand mixer you could even do this by hand I don't because I have a
mixer so that's what I'm using but you can certainly do it any of those wipes
so now we're at the point let's took this up here you can see it's a kind of
a thick batter that's kind of holding on to the whisk at this point so now what
we're gonna do is we're gonna add in our zucchini applesauce mixture as well as
our walnuts and get that all mixed in inevitably I usually end up spilling
half of this on me or on the counter but this time
looks like I might elect up must be my lucky charm
so we got the zucchini in there and walnuts in there we're gonna bring this
back down and we'll let this mix for a minute and I'll bring you back when
we're ready to put it in the pants okay so we got everything together here you
can still you see it's still a kind of a medium batter so it's not so thick that
you can't pour it but it's not so thin that it's runny so that's kind of right
where you want it if you feel your batter is a little too runny you can add
a little bit more flour if you feel that your batter is so thick that it's not
gonna be a moist bread you can add a little moisture add a little water or a
little juice or I've even added coffee in the past depending on what
ingredients I have in there like some leftover coffee any kind of a liquid you
could add in to bring it back to this but this is kind of the consistent your
consistency you're looking for so we're gonna get our beater cleaned up here
which zucchini is I was a fight so I'm actually going to come back once I got
this off of here okay honestly I probably should have left the camera
running because I'm not sure at one point I wasn't sure who was gonna win
that battle me or there zucchini it was pretty much a comedy of errors but I
think your most without there one of the other things I like to do is make sure I
get my spatula all the way down to the bottom just in case there's anything
stuck to the bottom or any dry ingredients that's settled just give it
one last thorough mix make sure everything's mixed in then what we're
gonna do so we're gonna grab our pans I just use two hi4 loaf pans I use the
baking spray that has the oil and flour in it you could certainly use
anything you want to use you could use Crisco and flour you can use oil and
flour you can use butter and flour whatever you find is tried-and-true for
your pans is what I recommend but just a little but that's what I got so I got
two of these I'm gonna split this batter between these two I'm gonna pop them
into the oven for about 55 minutes we'll come back and check we're looking for a
toothpick to come out clean and that will determine if they're done or not so
I'll bring you back when we're to that point and show you what it looks like
okay so we had the bread in the oven for about 60 minutes I actually got a little
distracted so they went about five minutes longer than I would like them to
but they're still perfect they're gonna be moist and delicious I usually let
mine sit on the pay him for a minute and then take them out of the pan and I like
to tip mine on the side because otherwise I feel like the bottom doesn't
let the heat out so this is how I choose to let mine cool
so that is zucchini bread like I said I'll try and get the recipe down in the
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