Cinnamon-Sugar Squash Bread

[savory summer squash about to become dessert]

What do you do when you have a lot of summer squash, a sweet tooth, and a brand new oven you haven’t tried baking with yet? Make some zucchini bread. Or, as is the case here, summer squash bread.

[squash bread batter]

This recipe popped up on food52 this week, and seemed very easy to veganize. I used flax seed for the egg, vegan butter for the regular butter, and, of course, a summer squash in place of the zucchini. Grating one gave me almost exactly 2 cups of squash.

[summer squash bread, with a gorgeous cracked cinnamon sugar topping, fresh out of the oven (and almost too hot to eat…almost)]

It came out so beautiful, and in the usual estimated time (not the add-at-least-10-minutes-to-everything-with-sugar time). Moist and light, without the expected bitter zucchini aftertaste, I’ll probably have some for breakfast tomorrow, too. I wonder how it will taste with coffee.

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