Chocolate Zucchini Bread w/chocolate chips

shared by Patty H. (OK, here's a "naughty but really nice" chocolate recipe that I added to my chocolate collection today. It was wonderful! Well, it is cold outside. What else is there to do but bake something that smells this good!?!?)
Ingredients:
2 cups flour
2 tsp.  cinnamon
1/2 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. baking soda
6 T. unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 cup canola oil
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup brown sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup sour cream
3 cups grated zucchini
3/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Butter and flour 2 loaf pans and set aside. (Tip: To get a perfectly crowned loaf of bread, after you grease the pans take a paper towel and wipe down about one inch all along the top. This gives the bread something to latch on to instead of sliding back down the side while cooking.)
3. Place flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder in a small bowl and whisk to combine. Set aside.
4. With a stand or hand mixer beat oil, white sugar, brown sugar, and eggs until combined and slightly fluffy, 1-2 minutes.
5. Add vanilla and sour cream and mix until combined.
6. Gently stir in the grated zucchini.
7. Take a spoonful of the flour mixture and stir in with the chocolate chips (that will help keep them evenly distributed.) Stir remaining flour mixture into batter and mix just until combined.  Add chocolate chips and stir to combine.
8. Divide the batter between the two pans and sprinkle topping over each.** (see note)
9. Bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 50-60 minutes; check after 50 minutes. Toothpick or skewer should come out clean without "goopy" batter on it.
10. Let it cool on a rack for 10-15 minutes and then remove from pans. (You definitely have to eat a slice warm.)

Note:  The original recipe called for mixing 2 T. brown sugar, 2 T. white sugar and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and sprinkling it over the tops of the loaves before baking. I did not do this.  After all, a girl has to draw the line somewhere, even when it comes to chocolate. P.S. It was wonderful even without the topping.