Mom’s Spiced Zucchini Bread

Ingredients

• 2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 3 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, or more to taste
• 2 cups shredded zucchini
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts (optional)
• 1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9×5-inch loaf pans.

Beat sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a bowl until smooth; fold in zucchini. Stir flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, nutmeg, baking powder, and cloves together in a separate bowl; gradually stir into sugar mixture until batter is mixed. Fold walnuts and raisins into the batter; pour into the prepared loaf pans.

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the bread comes out clean, about 50 minutes.