Frosted Zucchini Bars with Chocolate Chips – Zucchini bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

Frosted Zucchini Bars with Chocolate Chips are a perfect dessert to use up summer zucchini. These delectable zucchini bars features a tasty cream cheese icing, a moist texture and a rich chocolate chip flavor. Plus, it feeds a crowd!

Frosted Zucchini Bars with Chocolate Chips

Zucchini is one of those vegetables that can be a double edged sword. It’s an easy vegetable to grow in your own garden, and the harvest is usually bountiful – but sometimes too bountiful. Anyone who has ever grown zucchini understands. Suddenly, the weather is right, and you have so much zucchini that it’s coming out of your ears.

I am always searching for new ways to use zucchini. I bake with it, cook with it, and stick it in surprising places. Want proof, see the list of our favorite zucchini recipes below.

• Mom’s Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread
• Mocha Glazed Chocolate Zucchini Bread
• Spicy Roasted Zucchini
• Cheesy Zucchini Casserole
• Zucchini Quiche
• Butterscotch Zucchini Cake
• Zucchini Pie
• Double Chocolate Zucchini Cake from Farmwife Cooks

Zucchini bars with Cream Cheese Frosting

This particular zucchini bar recipe was cut out from an old newspaper and stored in Grandma’s Wooden Recipe Box. I’m not sure if she ever made them, but something about the recipe caught her eye.

It turns out, this recipe is super easy to whip up. Baking this moist zucchini cake in a jelly roll pan means that the cooking time is relatively short. The recipe did note to be sure not to overcook the zucchini bars.

The cream cheese frosting was just as simple as the cake. I’ll be saving it to use on some other desserts in the future.

Ingredient List for Iced Zucchini Bars

• Eggs
• Sugar
• Vegetable Oil
• All Purpose Flour
• Ground Cinnamon
• Baking Soda
• Baking Powder
• Salt
• Zucchini, shredded or grated
• Vanilla Extract
• Nuts, chopped
• Chocolate Chips
• Cream Cheese, softened
• Margarine, softened
• Powdered Sugar

How To Make Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bars with Frosting

Step By Step Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Beat together eggs, sugar and oil in a large bowl.
3. In a separate medium bowl, mix together flour, cinnamon, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Slowly add dry ingredients to the wet ingredients.
4. Stir in zucchini, nuts, vanilla and chocolate chips.
5. Pour batter into a greased jelly roll pan. Bake for 25 minutes.
6. While cooling, mix together cream cheese, margarine, vanilla and powdered sugar.
7. Frost cooled cake.

For the full ingredient amounts and recipe steps for Iced Zucchini Bars recipe, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.

 Recipe FAQs

• These moist zucchini bars with cream cheese frosting will feed a crowd. They are prepared in a jelly roll pan. You can easily transport these to a pitch-in by covering with the lid.
• Use a box grater to grate the zucchini or a food processor to make shredded zucchini. Check out our Amazon Store for our favorite pantry and kitchen items.
• There’s no need to squeeze the excess liquid from the zucchini for this chocolate chip zucchini bar recipe.
• Be sure to properly grease the jelly roll pan with shortening so that the bars come out of the pan easily.
• The original recipe stated that you could substitute raisins for the chocolate chips for a new spin.
• Do not over-bake these chocolate chip zucchini bars; you don’t want a dry texture. Check them with a toothpick in the center of the pan.
• For the cream cheese frosting, be sure the margarine is softened and the cream cheese is at room temperature.
• Love zucchini in your desserts? Try our Butterscotch Zucchini Cake and Zucchini Pie recipes.

Should you peel zucchini for zucchini bread?

There is no need to peel zucchini before shredding it for zucchini bread. Save yourself the time and energy, and leave the peels on the zucchini.

Do you grate or shred zucchini for bread?

Either one works for zucchini bread. Grated zucchini using a box grater or shredded zucchini using a food processor can be used in zucchini quick bread.

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