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Desserts » Cookies » Insanely Delicious Chocolate Zucchini Cookies

Insanely Delicious Chocolate Zucchini Cookies

Created by Amy Engberson 12 Comments

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Chocolate Zucchini Cookies are a super soft, yet completely fudgy chocolate cookie loaded with chocolate chips! Every bite is a little bit of chocolate heaven!

a stack of two chocolate cookeis with a bite taken out of the top one.

Why You’ll Love Chocolate Zucchini Cookies!

Zucchini Cookies are even better than zucchini bread! There I said it!

They’re already in single size servings and let’s face it, zucchini bread isn’t exactly healthy! I mean these cookies probably don’t really fall into the healthy category either but since they have vegetables in them I’m totally counting it and serving them for breakfast!

Don’t judge me! If you’ve ever grown zucchini in the garden you know all about stuffing it in every single recipe! That’s life in the summer.

These cookies are moist, fudgy, and oh so chocolaty thanks to chocolate cookie dough PLUS chocolate chips! If that’s not enough for you feel free to add white chocolate chips too!

Chocolate cookies with chocolate chips and zucchini with a bite taken out of it

Everything you want to know about zucchini cookies!

Table of contents

  1. Why I Love Chcoolate Zucchini Cookies
  2. What Ingredients You’ll Need to Make Them
  3. Step By Step Instructions on How To Make the Recipe
  4. Other AMAZING Zucchini Recipes
  5. What’s Happening On the Farm
  6. Printable Choc Zucchini Cookies Recipe
a stack of two chocolate zucchini cookies with chocolate chips on a wooden board with a glass of milk in the background

Zucchini Cookies Ingredients

For this recipe you’ll need pretty simple ingredients! Although I love giving you guys options for substituting for ingredients this recipe is pretty cut and dry. I’ll give you a few ideas though.

  • BUTTER – use real butter
  • SUGAR – brown and white
  • EGGS – use whole eggs
  • VANILLA – real vanilla is best
  • FLOUR – all-purpose, you can try whole wheat or gluten-free although I haven’t tried it so I can’t say exactly how it will turn out
  • COCOA – Dutch-processed is what I use
  • BAKING SODA, BAKING POWDER, AND SALT – pretty simple! You can use Kosher salt if you’d like. I use iodized table salt for this recipe.
  • ZUCCHINI – measure after it’s grated. Use green or yellow. Peel it if you’d like, but you don’t need to.
  • CHOCOLATE CHIPS – milk, semi-sweet, or white chocolate
three zucchini, chocolate, and chocolate chip cookies on a white board

How to make Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Making this recipe is pretty much like any other cookie recipe. Let me walk you through the steps to show you the in’s and out’s of it.

STEP 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

STEP 2: Grate zucchini. Set aside.

a cube of butter, brown sugar, and white sugar in a glass mixing bowl

STEP 3: Cream butter and sugars until fluffy, about two minutes.

creamed butter and sugar with eggs and vanilla on top in a mixing bowl

STEP 4: Add eggs and vanilla. Beat two more minutes.

STEP 5: Add baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix for one minute.

a glass mixing bowl with creamed butter and sugar, topped with flour and cocoa

STEP 6: Add cocoa and flour. Beat just until combined. The dough will be stiff.

a mixing bowl with chocolate cookie dough, grated zucchini, and chocolate chips

STEP 7: Add grated zucchini and chocolate chips. Mix only until incorporated.

Scoops of raw chocolate cookie dough with grated zucchini on a baking sheet

STEP 8: Drop dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet in 2 Tablespoon sized cookies.

baking sheet with baked chocolate chip chocolate cookies

STEP 9: Bake for 10-11 minutes. Be careful to not over bake.

STEP 10: Let cookies cool on the sheet of a minute, then remove to a cookie rack to finish cooling.

Other Easy Zucchini Recipes

My guess is that if you have one zucchini, you have a lot of zucchini! Here are a few other recipes to use up your summer squash crop!

  • Zucchini Meatballs – Italian style
  • Breakfast Cookies – made with oats, super healthy!
  • Pumpkin Zucchini Muffins – with chocolate chips
  • Fudgy Zucchini Brownies – with icing
  • Texas Sheet Cake – perfect for crowds
  • Grilled Summer Squash – in a foil packet
  • Picnic Cake – the best streusel on top
  • Summer Vegetables Omelet – use up all the summer veggies
  • Summer Vegetables Pasta Salad – a healthy and light summer main dish
a wooden board with three chocolate chocolate chip zucchini cookies

What’s happening on the farm?

Today Carson asked me if we could have pancakes for breakfast in the morning. I told him I was thinking about making zucchini pancakes and he asked why we can’t have normal pancakes.

Like I said, in my Zucchini Brownies post, I have zucchini running out my ears. ‘Tis the season for everything zucchini and I love it!

In fact, I was thinking about zucchini while I was driving the tractor yesterday. Zucchini is supposed to be a healthy vegetable, and it probably is. It is until we drown it in chocolate, butter, or cheese. Zucchini is one of those foods we love but we hide it in our food. It’s like we are always trying to find a sneaky home for the stuff.

Sometimes I add veggies to my normal recipes and don’t tell the boys about it in hopes they won’t notice. These cookies though…they are so yummy I didn’t even have to pretend like they aren’t loaded with veggies!

The boys devoured the whole batch in no time and knew about the zucchini too. There is something magical about chocolate. Maybe I will start adding chocolate chips to salads and see if Branson will eat them! Okay, they probably aren’t that magical.

a white and green checked cloth with a chocolate fudgy cookie

Grab my Chocolate Zucchini Cookies Recipe!

Zucchini cookies recipes are one of the best ways to use up your crop! Chocolate dough, plus chocolate chips are irresistible! Pack them in lunches, eat them for dessert, or serve them for breakfast!

a stack of two chocolate cookeis with a bite taken out of the top one.

Chocolate Zucchini Cookies

Super soft Chocolate Zucchini Cookies are bursting with chocolate chips! Excellent for packing in lunches and they freeze well too!
4.07 from 15 votes
Print Pin Rate
Course: Cookies, Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Choc Zucchini Cookies, Chocolate Zucchini Cookies
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 22 minutes
Total Time: 37 minutes
Servings: 30 cookies
Calories: 143kcal
Author: Amy

Ingredients

  • 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/3 cup cocoa
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup butter room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1 whole egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 1/2 cup zucchini shredded
  • 2 cups chocolate chips

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
  • Grate zucchini. Set aside.
  • Cream butter and sugars until fluffy, about two minutes.
  • Add eggs and vanilla. Beat two more minutes.
  • Add baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Mix for one minute.
  • Add cocoa and flour. Beat just until combined. The dough will be stiff.
  • Add grated zucchini and chocolate chips. Mix only until incorporated. As the dough sits the zucchini will start releasing some of the water in it and the dough will become thinner and "wetter". The last batch of cookies might be flatter than the first, because of the amount of time the zucchini sits in the cookie dough before baking.
  • Drop dough onto a parchment-lined baking sheet in 2 Tablespoon sized cookies.
  • Bake for 10-11 minutes. Be careful to not over bake.
  • Let cookies cool on the sheet of a minute, then remove to a cookie rack to finish cooling.

Notes

Use other types of chocolate chips; white, butterscotch, peanut butter, milk, or semi-sweet. Even a combination would be great!
You can peel zucchini if you’d like, but you don’t have to. It’s great either way. You’ll be able to see it better if it’s not peeled. 
Course grate zucchini.

Nutrition

Calories: 143kcal | Carbohydrates: 21g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Cholesterol: 10mg | Sodium: 104mg | Potassium: 43mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 15g | Vitamin A: 134IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 26mg | Iron: 1mg
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I live on a dairy with my husband and three boys. Although we are in the business of raising cattle, we really are in the business of raising boys. I am passionate about catching up with each other at meal times. My love language is food. And I hope that my men feel the love in every bite. Read more...

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  1. Chelsea says

    September 26, 2018 at 2:26 pm

    I just made these and they are quite flat. Maybe because of using frozen shredded zucchini? Should I have added baking powder or soda?

    Reply
    • Amy Engberson says

      October 5, 2018 at 8:28 am

      I wouldn’t adjust the amount of either the baking soda or baking poweder. I’m guessing your zucchini has too much liquid in it causing the cookies to flatten. Be sure to wring the zucchini out before using it. I’m not experienced in using frozen zucchini because I prefer to bake zucchini cookies and bread and put them in the freezer as baked goods rather than as frozen zucchini. It makes quick and easy snacks later on!

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      • Melissa says

        April 11, 2020 at 7:00 pm

        I haven’t made these yet, but I noticed you said you wouldn’t adjust the amount of baking soda or powder. That implies to me that there should be some in there, but the recipe doesn’t list any. Is that correct? No baking soda or baking powder?

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        • Amy Engberson says

          April 28, 2020 at 9:22 am

          Yes! I just edited the recipe to include baking soda and powder. How did I forget that part?

          Reply
  2. Bernice G says

    February 21, 2020 at 9:41 am

    This recipe doesn’t have any baking sofa or power?

    Reply
    • Amy Engberson says

      April 28, 2020 at 9:25 am

      I just updated the recipe to include baking powder and soda. Sorry about the inconvenience.

      Reply
  3. Marsha Mahne says

    May 3, 2020 at 5:35 pm

    These cookies are SO GOOD!!!!! Easy to make as well. Have a fudgy taste. Great way to use up surplus zucchini this summer.

    Thank your for sharing the recipe.

    Marsha

    Reply
    • Amy Engberson says

      May 12, 2020 at 7:03 pm

      You just can’t go wrong with chocolate! And it’s a great way to get kids to eat veggies! Gald you enjoyed them!

      Reply
  4. Susan J. Newton says

    September 10, 2020 at 1:35 pm

    When does the cinnamon get added to the batter? I sneeked it in with the zucchini because I got that far in the process when I noticed I had it left over! But the cookies turned out so so good! Thanks for the recipe…

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    • Amy Engberson says

      September 10, 2020 at 6:53 pm

      Yay! I’m glad you enjoyed the cookies! You can add the cinnamon with the other spices next time! It sounds like it worked out adding it when you did anyway!

      Reply
  5. Barb says

    October 8, 2020 at 11:40 am

    5 stars
    Like a good brownie. If you want sugar free, use 2 eggs and 1/2 the sugar amount substituted with Splenda.

    Reply
    • Amy Engberson says

      October 12, 2020 at 3:46 pm

      Thank you! I’m glad you loved these cookies as much as we do! Thanks for the sugar-free suggestions, my husband is trying to eat less sugar so this is perfect timing!

      Reply
Hi I’m Amy! Welcome to my stinky farm life where my days are filled with chasing kids and cows! It’s all about simply delicious food around here! If you leave my house hungry…it’s your own fault! Read More..

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