A classic with a twist! Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread with Maple Oat Crumble! A vegan, healthy, and more delicious way to bake your favorite summer quick bread recipe. Moist slices of zucchini bread with the comforting flavors of warm maple and oven-toasted oats!
I feel like I always start my posts off with “I have a confession…” But I do! Here it is. Even though I love zucchini and call it my favorite veggie, I’d never had actual zucchini bread (in quick bread form) before just a few months ago when I baked this recipe! I know, right? I feel like such a zucchini fraud! So I have no childhood memories of zucchini bread to tell you about, only “20-year-old” memories!
MY LATEST VIDEOSFunny connection, but I’m pretty sure I baked this bread the morning I came home from that farmer’s market trip when I picked up the patty pan squash for this recipe! Maybe I should have made patty pan bread? No, instead, I used the massive homegrown zucchini my mom had brought home from a coworker. I wanted to put that zucchini to good use in something special, so zucchini bread it was!
Now, I wanted to make a classic zucchini bread so I could get the full first experience. But, you know me, I had to play it up just a bit to give it that BAM, but still keep it simple. Two glorious and comforting things came to mind. Maple and a simple crumble topping! Who doesn’t like crumble? A little maple syrup and some gluten-free oats, the perfect way to play it up without taking over the zucchini show!
This also gives you that little intersection between summer and fall! Summer = zucchini and Fall = maple! Although for me, zucchini is year-round. I buy around 5 every week and no, they’ve never gone to waste! The one way that I’m not “that” big a fan of with zucchini is zoodles. I’d rather not. I’d rather spiralized beets or potatoes! But hey, to each his own 😉 And be prepared when you have this bread baking in the oven. The warming smell of maple will have you just wanting to cuddle up with this bread! It is so comforting! I could barely wait to take this bad boy out of the oven. Yes, you can say I am now a proud fan of zucchini bread!
Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread with Maple Oat Crumble
- 1 Cup Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour
- ½ Cup Buckwheat Flour
- 1½ Cup Grated Zucchini (squeezed dry with a cheesecloth or towel)
- 1 Tsp Baking Powder
- ½ Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
- 1 Flax Egg (1 TB Milled Flax Seed + 3 TB Water)
- ¼ Cup Erythritol
- ½ Tsp Cinnamon
- ½ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
- For Crumble Topping:
- ½ Cup Gluten-Free Quick Oats*
- 1 TB Pure Maple Syrup
- ½ Tsp Maple Extract (optional)
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine all bread ingredients and mix well to form your bread batter.
- In an oiled 8x4 loaf pan, pour the batter in and smooth it out evenly.
- In another mixing bowl, combine the crumble topping ingredients and crumble it together with your hands. Then sprinkle the topping on top of the batter in the loaf pan.
- Bake the bread in the oven for about 40 minutes. Remove and let cool before slicing. This bread also freezes well!
This zucchini bread is so yummy! A fantastic breakfast, brunch, snack, or super healthy dessert! I now understand why everyone just loves zucchini bread! It deserves to be a baking staple in every household!
So tell me:
+ Any other zucchini bread virgins out there?
+ Favorite way to eat zucchini? Chopped up raw!
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I love zucchini bread so I’ll have to try your recipe.
I hope so, that’s why this is a food blog.
Your recipe for Gluten-Free Zucchini Bread With Maple Oat Crumble is going on my to make list right away. I especially love the crumble topping and I am sure my family will as well.
The crumb topping is a must!
Perfect timing! I was wondering what to do with the abundance of zucchini in my fridge 🙂
Perfection 😉
Love zucchini bread, it was a staple in our home growing up, my mom would make 15 loaves at a time and then freeze them so we could have it for breakfast or snack. YUM! But since going gluten free I haven’t had any! Now with your creative recipe I can enjoy it again, and add the BAM! Thanks!
Keeping stocked with zucchini bread sounds like a very good idea 😉
I love zucchini bread, and this one sounds delicious! 🙂
Thank you!
I love anything with zucchini and this sounds absolutely delicious!!! Pinning
The best veggie!
Looks delicious. The crumb topping is a great addition!
Thank you!
I love zucchini bread! This looks wonderful!
Thank you!
Rebecca, let me get this straight- you NEVER had zucchini bread before now??? Moment of silence for the lost years of yumminess.
“Want to cuddle the bread”? How did you know that’s what I do with all my warm loaves?? SHH!! Don’t tell everybody!
Haha, and especially zucchini bread 😉
We love zucchini bread around here
Great!
You must have known how much I love zucchini bread! This looks awesome!
It is so good! A new love of mine too 😉
Hmmm I’ve had zucchini cake, I’m not sure I’ve had bread either. And pairing it with maple and crumble, well, that’s just awesome sauce. I’ll definitely be trying this!
Basically the same thing just…loaf form 😛
Oh my, that maple oat crumble topping looks just divine! I could really go for about a bucket of this right now, it is fabulous!
Haha, a bucket of crumble 😉 Sounds good to me!
I haven’t used buckwheat flour for a long time but I need to get back into it. This bread looks so good!
That’s crazy!
Unlike you, I have a million childhood memories of zucchini bread! One of my moms specialties for sure! 🙂 Now she is gluten-free and I can make this version for her! <3
Perfect! I’m sure she’ll love some 🙂
Woah! Especially the maple oat crumble looks delicious, Rebecca! Super innovative recipe to be honest 😀
Thank you so much!
Oh man I bet this DOES smell amazing while baking. I am a sucker for zucchini bread but you totally had me at maple oat crumble. Hmmmm yes please!
We’re just taking zucchini bread up a notch 😉
I love zucchini bread and this one has no sugar, looove it.
Just the way it should be! Let the produce shine!
I think it is so cute that you have food confessions like this at only 20 Rebecca! I didn’t grow up in a culinary household at all, and we never ate out, so I still experience “firsts” many, many years later. At 20, oh my, there were SO many things I had never tried! I’m pretty sure I had never had zucchini bread, but now love it and think your version looks good and insanely moist!
Haha, well thank you Alisa! Now that I’ve found my cooking passion I’m just making up for the lost years of my childhood, but guess I’m still way ahead of the game!
Ahhh! There are bakers that come by once a week(ish?) at RWJ and they have free samples of their carrot bread, pumpkin bread, banana bread, and zucchini bread! So much goodness! 😀 I need to try making this, because those samples made me realize how much I apparently adore carrot bread and zucchini bread! 😛 I love the crumble you added on top!
I would adore some carrot bread! I’m a HUGE carrot CAKE lover 😉
We’ll need to make some! 😀 I need to start a list of everything we need to make, hahaha.
Beautiful Rebecca– that topping! And carbs– so perfect for this chilly weather. September first, and the temperature dropped by 40 degrees here in Bend, Oregon 🙂 Means time for tea and THIS bread!
O man! Girl, you really need to get some baked goods going!
Zucchini bread is always a favorite of mine, and that crumble! I’m swooning.
It is so good!! Thank you Courtney 🙂
That crumble topping looks amazing! The inside looks so moist! Craving this zucchini bread so bad!
Thank you!!! Haha, I’m craving it a lot more often now that I finally made it!
This looks fantastic! I always have so much zucchini on hand and I’m always look for new ways to use it. Thanks for the recipe!
And what better way than baking some yummy sweet bread 😉
Looks like something I’d like – and I have a zucchini that I need to use, so it’s perfect!
O yes!! I hope you try it 🙂
What a cool recipe! In my opinion, you are NO zucchini fraud! 😉 There are so many recipes just waiting to be tried, tested and finally released. Better for us to wait til you’ve got this beauty instead of seeing this loaf too soon. 😉 I love that you sprinkled the tops with delicious maple oat crumble. I would def want extra of that!
Hahaha 😉 Thank you so much, friend! Zucchini recipes do need to be works of pure perfection 😉
That topping is PERFECTION.
Haha, thanks!
How did you know I’ve been craving zucchini bread?! Or courgette, as we say it here in the UK 😉
I would love a slice of that right now, smothered in either butter or almond butter, or one of each actually. YUM! x
Haha 😉 Gow with one of each! More slices of bread, the better! xoxo
That crumble sounds so good! This is definitely the perfect in between seasons treat to bake.
Right? We get a touch of both!
HI Rebecca,
Another great zucchini bread recipe. Zucchini makes baked goods so moist and using the buckwheat flour sound like a tasty choice. Pinned & Tweeted!
Zucchini bread is a new favorite here!
Oh my Rebecca, if my head wasn’t screwed on, I’d have lost it many times this week. So glad to have a minute to land here and enjoy your latest gorgeous creation. What a great combo!
Sounds like you’re in need of zucchini bread 😉 xoxo
That maple oat crumble sounds incredible ????????
Yes, thanks!
Maple Oat Crumble?! Really? Now that makes it a must try!
Right it does!
There can never be enough zucchini bread recipes! Such a great way to use certified gluten-free purity protocol oats–the ones that keep us all safe. I have two zucchini bread recipes myself and have plans for more. 😉 Love this version with the maple oat crumble, Rebecca. Nobody can resist a crumble topping!
Shirley
The crumble makes it shine!
Well, Rebecca I don’t think I’ve ever had zucchini bread with a maple oat crumble topping – it sounds wonderful!
Just making a classic even better 😉
I am sure that crumble topping would have given this bread a wonderful crunchy topping. It looks delicious.
It does! The perfect pop to your first bite!
I love zucchini bread and I am thinking that maple oat crumble sounds perfect for the fall! Thank you for the recipe!
It’s the perfect seasonal cross!
I love that crumble topping. That was a totally inspired idea! I have to try this.
Crumble is always a good idea!
I looooove zucchini bread! And that maple oat crumble is one to die for!
Pinned 🙂
Thank you Evi!
This looks AMAZING Rebecca. I could eat this every day.
Haha, I could too 😉 Thanks dear!
Looks do moist and nourishing! Love the oat crumble topping. Could really do with a big slice right now.
I could use a big slice too 😛
I love zucchini cake, I love a good crumble, and I love maple syrup (what self-respecting Canadian doesn’t?) so this recipe sounds like a triple win! Love it!
Haha, thanks Sarah!
I have a confession to make. I normally bake loads with zucchini every summer as we always have a glut, but this year not one single one of our plants made it past the slugs, so I’ve not baked a single cake yet! Your bread sounds really interesting with the maple topping and who doesn’t like maple?
O no!! Well there;s still time!!! Never too late!
Double WOW! Making this today, have a giant courgette on my kitchen worktop and was going to do muffins, this has won instead! Plus no egg, my Achilles heel!
THANKYOU ????
Perfect!! You’ll be glad you did 😉
Looks delicious and healthy, will definitely give it a go
I hope so!
I LOVE zucchini bread and the addition of the crumble on top! Awesome recipe!
Thanks, Carly!
Love the crumble, will definitely be making this!
Crumble top is a must!
This looks fabulous…I want to make it tonight.
Thank you!
Mmm… zucchini + buckwheat! Sounds like a delicious combo!
Have to have that deep color of buckwheat for zucchini bread!
I have a bagful of zucchini from the farmer’s market and I should definitely try this
Ah, yes! Put that zucchini to good use!
Not a zucchini bread virgin at all! In fact, its the first thing my kids ask for when they see this veggie in my fridge. I’ll have to try it with your crumble next time to change it up a bit.
Ahh! Haha 😉 Then I bet you have some killer zucchini bread recipes up your sleeve!
We have our favorite for sure, but I’m excited to change it up! Change is good 🙂
That sounds so good! Perfect combo of healthy and sweet!
Yes it is! Thanks Kristina!
I love the twist on the classic with that delicious sounding maple-oat crumble!! I can imagine it would take the already yummy zucchini bread to the next level 🙂 yum!
It totally does! Thanks, Donna!
i love zucchini bread any way I can get it, but that crumble puts this one over the top
Everything is better with some crumble!
Maple oat crumble! Zucchini bread! 2 of my favorite things!
Perfect 😉
Awesome so happy this is nut free too! I *just* made zucchini bread this week (it’s one of my favorites) but I’ve never tried it with a crumble on top!
Well now you have an excuse to make another loaf 😉
I have a confession to make: I’ve never tried, let alone made, zucchini bread before! I don’t think it’s really a big thing here in the UK but I think it ought to be cos this looks deeeeeeeeeeeeelicious.
Good! Well then I wasn’t alone 😉 But you must make some now!! Bring the zucchini bread to the UK!
the fact that this is heavy on the crumble makes me SWOON!
Bahaha, the only way to do it 😉
My mom is from the South and she made zucchini bread at least once a month. I actually have a recipe scheduled to post soon, but it doesn’t have this gorgeous and delicious crumble on top. I LOVE this!
Oooo I want to see it!! Zucchini bread is like banana bread! We all have those classic family recipes!
I have still never tried zucchini in baking, but this looks great and I like the idea of the maple oat crumble.
What!? :O You should be putting zucchini in everything!!!
I’ve never had zucchini bread either! This looks and sounds amazing – I’ll definitely have to give it a whirl.
I’m guessing it could easily be made savoury instead too, right? I’m thinking cheesy and paprika-y. What do you think?
Haha, no, I’m pretty sure zucchini bread should always be sweet!