Sugar Glazed Cucumber Bread
This Sugar Glazed CUCUMBER Bread is delicious and so moist! It tastes just like zucchini bread, but it’s made with 1 cup grated cucumber. The healthy dessert recipe is easy to make and is a great way to eat your vegetables! A powdered sugar glaze is poured on top once baked! Everyone in my family LOVES it – even toddlers!
This weekend there were many surprises in the garden. The monster pumpkin plant just won’t stop growing. There was a 5 pound bag of potatoes waiting for us under the soil. Carrots were pulled. Jalapeno peppers were picked. Cucumbers were spotted.
These are all vegetables I was hoping for, but maybe in a few weeks…. but in typical garden fashion, they make their own rules and showed up to the party early. I couldn’t have been more happy to see them!
I saw a few baby cucumbers growing on the vine last weekend but somehow those babies transformed to multiple large cucumbers in just a few days, ready to be picked and enjoyed. My Half Sour Pickle recipe and Cucumber Tomato Salad is a favorite way to use cucumbers, but I was trying to figure out how to bake with them.
Baking with Cucumbers!
This Sugar Glazed Cucumber Bread was created because of that! This bread is similar to Zucchini Bread, but instead is made with grated cucumbers. After the bread cools, a delicious powdered sugar glaze is poured on top to make it really special. This is our new breakfast recipe that I’ll be making weekly until the cucumbers finish in the garden.
This is one of my family’s favorite cucumber recipes – perfect for Mom and Dad, but also perfect for toddlers and kids! Even my 1 year old loves a piece of this for breakfast in the morning!
Now let’s get baking!
Easy Cucumber Bread Recipe
This recipe calls for 1 cup grated cucumber. If you have never grated a cucumber I’m going to walk you through it quickly. You’ll probably 2-3 small cucumbers or 1-2 large cucumbers to equal 1 cup.
First I slice the cucumbers in half and remove the seeds with a spoon. Make sure to get all those seedy watery guts out too. The second picture shows what you want.
Next peel the cucumber. Have you ever seen a cucumber nude before?! Well now you have. I just use my potato peeler for this.
Now you’re going to grate the cucumber until you get 1 cup worth. I use my cheese grater for this. Cucumbers are watery so this gets a little messy.
Note: Grated cucumber freezes great! So if you have a bunch of cucumbers, you can grate them, throw into individual 1 cup freezer bags and make this bread throughout the Winter!
Now, this is a important step that you can’t skip. Like I just mentioned, cucumbers are really watery. Cucumbers are 96% water to be exact. You can see in my measuring cup below how much water there is. After you grate your cucumbers, drain for 30 minutes.
I do this with a mesh strainer over my sink. If you don’t drain, your bread batter is going to get watery and you don’t want that. After I drain for 30 minutes, I use my hand and press down on the grated cucumber just to make sure all the excess water is drained out.
Now it’s time to bake for 60 minutes. Before and After!
And out comes this delicious Cucumber Bread! Make sure to let it cool. I transfer mine to a wire rack where I drizzle the sugar glaze on after it’s cooled down.
And just like that you have delicious Sugar Glazed Cucumber Bread!
Once you cut a slice of it you can see small specks of the green cucumber. Beautiful!
My husband had no idea this was Cucumber Bread before declaring this was one of the best baked goods he’s ever tasted. His mind was blown when I told him.
Hope you all enjoy!
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Sugar Glazed Cucumber Bread
This Sugar Glazed CUCUMBER Bread is delicious and so moist! It tastes just like zucchini bread, but it's made with 1 cup grated cucumber. The healthy dessert recipe is easy to make and is a great way to eat your vegetables! A powdered sugar glaze is poured on top once baked! Everyone in my family LOVES it - even toddlers!
Ingredients
For bread
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup grated cucumber peeled, seeds removed, drained - see notes
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans optional
For glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
For bread
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In a large bowl mix eggs, vegetable oil and sugar together with hand mixer.
- Add grated cucumber, vanilla and lemon juice. Stir with spoon to combine.
- Add flour, baking soda, salt, baking powder, nutmeg and cloves to bowl. Continue to sir with spoon.
- Add pecans into the bowl. These are optional but highly recommended! Stir again.
- Spray a 5x9 loaf pan with nonstick spray. Add batter into loaf pan.
- Bake for 60 minutes.
- Let cool for 10 minutes. Remove and transfer to wire rack to completely cool.
For glaze
- Mix powdered sugar and milk together in bowl with a spoon.
- Once bread is cool, pour glaze on top.
Recipe Video
Recipe Notes
To get 1 cup grated cucumbers: peel your cucumbers, remove the seeds and grate with cheese grater. After cucumbers are grated, drain them for 30 minutes to remove excess water.
Such a fun use of cucumbers and it surely looks very delicious, esp. with that beautiful sugar glaze.
i have used zucchini but cucumber in bread is really interesting/new concept! looks delish.
I have heard of zuchinni bread before, but not cucumber bread. Our cucumbers are actually growing well this year, so we might have some to make this.
What a great recipe! I never thought to make a bread with cucumbers but, now that I think about it, why not! I will definitely be trying this in the near future.
Are you serious Pamela? Cucumber bread? You are so creative…I can only imagine how this cucumber bread will taste…and even better with the sugar glaze. Thanks for the inspiration!
Have a wonderful week 🙂
My crops are a little late this year, but that’s okay! My cukes look just like yours and now I’m going to try this cucumber bread!!!! What a great idea. It just looks so…..refreshing! Cucumbers are like that, refreshing. I do the exact same thing as you, freeze my zukes and freeze in 1 cup amounts, you nailed it, it’s perfect for the winter when you are craving zucchini bread but too $$$ to make out of season. Anyhow, I’d thought I’d pop in a say hi!!! I was in NYC last week and got to walk across the Brooklyn bridge and eat pizza at Juliana’. Great experience! Experience walking across the bridge. Still AMAZED!!!!! Will be visiting again soon for sure, hopefully at Christmas!
I’ve never seen this use before! So creative and I am sure delicious! Can’t wait to try!
Cucumber bread?!?? This is such a fun way to put those cukes to work 😉 Have to try this loaf soon!
We always get a bumper crop of cukes in our garden. And are always looking for new ways to use them. Bread? Haven’t tried that! But we will. 🙂 Good stuff — thanks.
Interesting how so many breads are common: carrot, zucchini, banana, but cucumber is not something you hear of! I bet it makes it so light and delish, very interesting!
What a creative way to use cucumbers!! This is such a great idea! I always wind up with extra somehow … I need to make myself some bread next time!
This is super creative – I’ve never seen cucumbers in a baked good before. Nice idea!
Never have I seen a recipe for cucumber bread…I LOVE it! This will come in handy when our crop comes in and I am sick to death of trying to figure out yet another cucumber salad recipe. Ha!
well, this is a first! very, very interesting bread–it looks incredible!
I love zucchini bread so I this recipe really intrigued me. It sounds delicious and I will try it.
Oh my! Must try! Thanks for sharing with the Delicious Dishes Recipe party this week!
Can I use a blender instead of grating the cucumbers.
Hey Bea, if it’s all you have you could try it, but I would be very careful as a blender can liquefy the cucumbers very quickly. If you’re going to use a blender, give it one pulse at a time until they are grated.
I love cucumbers and since I am not a good vegetable eater, it is an easy crunchy treat for me, but I have never heard of cucumber bread! This is fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing at Celebrate Your Story!
If I can pry the cucumbers out of my son’s hands, we’ll definitely be trying this out. Thanks so much for sharing at the #happynowlinkup!
What a great idea! 🙂 I have never heard of this.. and what a great way to use up some of the excess cukes when I do not want to make pickles! 🙂
I bet this tastes delicious. It sure looks good.
Well, you blew me away with this one! I’ve never heard of baking with cucumber either, but I must say that bread looks mighty tasty! Could you save me a slice? Cukes give me indigestion usually, but I bet this bread would go down really well. Thanks for sharing it at Sweet Inspiration this week!
I have always wondered what a cucumber would taste like in bread. Now I know. I will be trying this very soon. Thanks for the info.
Enjoy Linda!
I’m saving this for when we have more cucumbers then we know what to do with here in just a couple weeks! Thanks for sharing with us at the To Grandma’s house we go link party – I’ll be featuring this tomorrow morning on my site when the new party starts!
What the heck? Cucumber bread?! That sounds super freaky, but your photos look so good, it must taste delicious! I mean, I’ve baked with zucchini, beetroot, carrots, avocado… but cucumber?! Got to try this! 🙂
Thanks for sharing at the Friday Favorites linky party!!
*Maisy
Wow! I’ve never heard of cucumber bread, but it looks delicious! Thanks for linking up for Friday Favorites. I’m featuring you this week!
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Yikes!! I missed the draining part, but the batter smells delicious!! Any way to fix? Will be making another bowl of batter anyway for the neighbors….
…There is always that one person…and it was me this time :\ lol!
Hey Becky – ooops on not draining! I hope the next batch of batter turned out better for you! 🙂
How cool that some one else did this. I have made cucumber bread once before. Not sure what recipe I used, probably something similar to this one. Loved it. Had horrible looking cucumbers this year . I wished I had thought of using them in a bread. Book marking this one in case some one in the neighborhood wants to share. Everyone, give this one a try. You will not be disappointed.
Hey Irene, thanks for commenting. Glad to hear there’s another Cucumber Bread fan out there!
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Had 20 cucumbers… Found this and the cookie recipe. Tried this one first.
Subbed GF flour, added xanthum gum.
Used small muffin tins, (1 doz) cooled, removed & inverted, then iced.
Iced with lemon glaze and a nutmeg glaze.
Their great! The nutmeg glaze is a hit!
Cannot taste the cucumbers :0)
So excited… And froze the unused ones as suggested.
Thank You!!!!
Hey Rolanda, I’m so happy you liked this cucumber recipe! The muffins you made sound delicious! Thanks for commenting and stopping by!
Made the bread a couple of hours ago,I think it needs a little more spice,maybe a 1 teaspoon of cinnamon in the batter.Very good,and different.
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Is this all purpose flour or whole-wheat? I would like to sub with spelt. Might that work? TIA!
Hey Teresa, it’s all purpose flour. I’ve never used spelt with this recipe so I’m unsure of the results. If you give it a shot, I’d love to hear how it turns out!
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I have so many cucumbers and when I found this recipe I was so excited. Just tried my first bite of this bread and OMG, it is the best bread I’ve ever made. Better than banana, better than zucchini. I’m going to try the cucumber cookie recipe next. Thank you for this excellent recipe!!
Hey Katie, your comment makes me so happy! I’m so glad you liked this recipe, I hope it becomes a staple for your garden cucumbers. Thanks for commenting!
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My brother kept leaving cucumbers from his garden at my door. I had to do something with them, besides all my other summer salads.
I found your recipe for cucumber bread. I was a bit skeptical. I made two loaves, one for my brother and one for my house. My brother said that him and his family loved it, and finished it in a day!
My husband, who does not touch veggies with a 10 ft pole had a piece, he said he liked it. I still haven’t told him it’s cucumber bread. I loved it as well. Simple to make. The sugar icing is a nice touch.
I just made this today, and it’s delicious! I never did get to the glaze part—it tastes great without it!
Do you think this bread freezes well?
Hey Melissa, I’ve frozen this bread many times – it works great! Enjoy!
I made this a few hours ago and it’s already half gone! The wife loves it too!
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