Y’all are going to LOVE this recipe!  It uses up 2 1/2 cups of that zucchini that’s starting to grow of control out in the garden AND it tastes AH-mazing!  Oh my.

Look at those stinking adorable loaf pans from IKEA!  You know you love them 🙂  Last week I attended the IKEA blogger catalog launch and got those adorable loaf pans.

SO, naturally I ran right home to bake in them… Honey Raisin Zucchini Bread and Ikea Event !

I love my blog friends… I had no idea that starting a blog would result in having such awesome, creative, cute friends like Jen from Tatortots and Jello and Tauni from Snap!

I love both of these ladies right to pieces 🙂

AND I always love making new friends too… so many amazing women in the blog world!

I fell completely in love with Ikea’s new lines and aren’t these living room and kitchen displays the cutest ever!  Oh my gosh… you gotta go check them out.

I could hardly stop eating that batter… you guys!  It’s delish 🙂

AND take a look at those IKEA pans- aren’t they absolutley adorable!  I totally {heart} them.

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Honey Raisin Zucchini Bread and Ikea Event

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Prep Time 20 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 10 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Ingredients

• 3 C flour
• 1 Tbsp baking powder
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 2 eggs, or 1 whole and 2 egg whites to reduce fat/cholesterol
• 1 C sugar
• 1/2 C honey
• 1/2 C canola oil
• 1/2 C fat free greek yogurt
• 2 tsp vanilla
• 2 1/2 C finely shredded zucchini, unpeeled
• 1/2 C walnuts, chopped
• 1 C golden raisins, soaked covered in warm water to soften, if needed
• 1/2 C crunchy granola, I used nature valley protein crunchy granola

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
2. Coat 2 loaf pans with cooking spray; set aside.
3. In large bowl combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon, salt; stir.
4. In a seperate bowl whisk together eggs, sugar, honey, oil, yogurt, vanilla, and zucchini; mixing well.
5. Make a well in dry ingredients, add wet, mix to 80% incorporated, add walnuts and raisins, stir.
6. Divide batter into prepared pans, sprinkle each pan with 1/4 C granola.
7. Bake 60-70 minuted until toothpick inserted into center removes clean.
8. Cool for 10 minutes on cooling rack, remove loaves from pans, complete cooling on rack.
9. Slice and Enjoy!
10. * if you'd like to use only honey in this recipe- omit sugar and use 1 C honey and increase flour by 1/4 C cup.

I’m super excited to share a delicious Swedish Dinner event that IKEA is hosting on August 15, 2014 at the Utah location- I’ll be there with some of my family and friends and we’d love to see you there too!!  Come and hang out with us…

I’ve been chillaxing in Cancun the past few days, a fun way to get all geared for my 2nd year of Culinary School!  I’m excited/nervous to be back at it 🙂

Happy Friday!!

xoxo~ Ruthie