Expert: Elyse Grau - 9/3/2009

Question
Can you please tell me why my zucchini bread would collapse during baking?  I followed the recipe exactly as written, I've made this recipe three times.  The first time it came out perfect, after that they just collapsed.

Answer
Marge:
I'm really not sure. It could have risen too much/too fast. Zucchini bread is usually a pretty dense batter, so it wouldn't be able to sustain a high rise. Perhaps the zucchini was  riper the second and third times and had more moisture. That would have made the batter heavier. I assume it is a standard z. bread recipe? How do you mix it? You are the second person to ask that question recently, thought the first questioner's bread collapsed after it came out of the oven.

Elyse