Zucchini Chocolate Bread

(makes 2 loaves)

3 large eggs

1 cup vegetable oil

2 t vanilla extract

2 cups sugar

3 cups grated zucchini

2 1/3 cups flour

½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

2 t baking soda

1 t cinnamon

1 t salt

¼ t baking powder

1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat the oven to 350. Grease and flour two 9x5x3 inch loaf pans.

Mix the eggs, oil, vanilla, sugar, and zucchini in a medium bowl. Whisk together the flour, cocoa, soda, cinnamon, salt, and baking powder in a large bowl. Stir in the chocolate chips. Add the zucchini mixture and stir well. Pour into the prepared pans.

Bake 45 minutes or until a wooded skewer inserted near the center of a loaf comes out clean. Cool the bread in the pans for 10 minutes, then turn out and finish cooling on a rack.