Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups regular all-purpose flour, unsifted
1/2 cup cocoa
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3/4 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 teaspoons grated orange peel
2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans (optional)


Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla



Directions


Preheat the oven to 350°F.


1 Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.


2 With a mixer, beat together the butter and the sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini.


3 Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into the zucchini mixture, including the nuts with the last addition.


4 Pour the batter into a greased and flour-dusted 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan. Bake in the oven for about 50 minutes (test at 45 minutes!) or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes; turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly.


5 Drizzle glaze over cake.


Glaze: Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 Tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth.


Cut in thin slices to serve. Makes 10-12 servings.

1 comment:

Mackenzi said...

I don't think I'm going to look at your blog anymore because it just makes me mad that I can't eat all the yummy food you make!