My favorite Chocolate Chip Zucchini bread

3/4 cup sugar

3 T vegetable oil

2 large eggs

1 cup applesauce

2 cups all-purpose flour

2 T unsweetened cocoa

1 1/4 t baking soda

1 t ground cinnamon

1/4 t salt

1 1/2 cups finely shredded zucchini (about 1 medium)

1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips

cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Place first 3 ingredients in a large bowl, beat with a mixer at low speed until well blended. Stir in apple sauce.

lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups, level with a knife. Combine flour and the next 4 ingredients (through salt), stirring well with a whisk. Add flour mixture to sugar mixture, beating just until moist.. Stir in the zucchini and chocolate chips. Spoon batter into a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out almost clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes on a wire rack, and remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.

(Recipe from Cooking Light Magazine)