Monday, July 22, 2013

Chocolate zucchini cake

I never made a chocolate zucchini cake before and decided to try one at work today as we had so much zucchini laying around.

I found the below recipe at: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/chocolate-zucchini-cake-iii/

Original recipe makes 1 - 9x13 inch pan
             
Ingredients:

* 2 cups all purpose flour
* 2 cups white sugar
* 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
*  2 tsp baking soda
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 tsp ground cinnamon
* 4 eggs
* 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil (can also substitute half for apple sauce)
* 3 cups grated zucchini
* 3/4 cup chopped walnuts (optional)

Directions:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch baking pan.
  2. In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Add the eggs and oil, mix well. Fold in the nuts and zucchini until they are evenly distributed. Pour into the prepared pan.
  3. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool cake completely before frosting with your favorite frosting.
I really enjoyed this cake. It has a great flavor and a healthy aspect to it with the addition of zucchini.
I made it into cupcakes instead of a cake and it took 30 min to bake.

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