Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Does Chocolate Zucchini Cake count as a vegetable or dessert? Perhaps if you eat it with your meal; it’s a vegetable, but if you eat it later; it’s a dessert! Either way, this recipe is one to use again and again. It is moist, delicious, and doesn’t need frosting! 
If you have a garden and plant zucchini, you know you’re going to need lots of zucchini recipe ideas for using all that a plant produces. This is one recipe idea that can be made over and over again. It is so good! I grate the zucchini and freeze in 2 cup portions so I have it ready to use for baking another cake when needed. A friend gave me this recipe. She found it in an old church cookbook.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Recipe Type: Dessert
Author: Old Cookbook Find!
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Serves: 12-15 pieces
Rich chocolate cake made with grated Zucchini
Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1/2 cup oil
  • 1 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp. vanilla
  • 1/2 cup sour milk (use regular milk with a tsp. of lemon juice to curdle it or use buttermilk)
  • 4 Tbsp. cocoa pwd.
  • 1/2 tsp. baking powder
  • 1 tsp. soda
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 2 cups grated zucchini
  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • Chopped walnuts
  • 1/2 c. cup chocolate chips
Instructions
  1. Cream together oil, butter, eggs, and sugar.
  2. Add the milk and vanilla.
  3. Add dry ingredients and zucchini.
  4. Pour into greased 9×13 cake pan.
  5. Sprinkle chips and nuts (optional) on top.
  6. Bake at 325 degrees for 45-50 min.

The batter will look like this….

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It looks light, but don’t worry, it bakes darker.

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This cake is so moist, rich, and delicious! It’s hard to resist especially if you’re a chocolate lover. 

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If by chance you have leftovers, it freezes well! 

Now, do you consider this a vegetable or dessert? Hmmm….I wonder….

Enjoy!

Phyllis

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