Zucchini Bread, Sweet

This sweet zucchini bread recipe is made with 100% whole wheat flour and no sugar like all of my recipes (I use only natural sweeteners).  The spice combination gives it a wonderful flavor.  Hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (1 3/4 cups soft white wheat berries)*
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 tsp allspice
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cinnamon

1 stick softened unsalted butter
2 large eggs
1/3 cup pure honey
1 Tbl pure maple syrup
1/2 tsp fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 cups finely shredded, peeled zucchini (I use the medium size slots on my grater)
1/4 cup organic raisins
1/2 cups chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)

Preheat oven to 325 °F.  Combine the pastry flour, baking powder, baking soda, sea salt and spices.  Fork beat the eggs.  Stir together soft butter with honey and maple syrup.  Add eggs and lemon juice.  Stir with spatula (or combine with mixer) until well combined.  Stir in the zucchini.  Finally stir in the raisins and nuts.

Butter and flour a bread pan.  Pour batter into pan (it should be the consistency of banana bread dough or a cake mix) and bake at 325 °F** for 70 minutes on until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

*You may need to add a little bit more flour depending on the moisture content of the zucchini.  Freshly picked zucchini from the garden has a lot of moisture.  
** I set my oven to 330 °F for best results.