- 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)
- 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.