Catlyn's Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Time

Yield

24 servings

Ingredients

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1/2 cup oil
1 tsp. vanilla
1-3/4 cup sugar
4 tbsp. cocoa
2-1/2 cup flour
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup sour milk*
1 cup chocolate chips
2 cups zucchini, unpeeled and grated

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease a 9x13-inch pan. In a bowl, cream butter and eggs. Add oil, vanilla and sugar. Blend well. Sift together the cocoa, flour, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, and cinnamon. Add to the butter mixture alternately with themilk. Add zucchini and chocolate chips. Bake 40 to 50 minutes. There is no need to frost this cake, but if you wish, sprinkle or sifted powdered sugar on top of the cooled cake.

Author's Comments

About the best non-standard use for zucchini is this cake which Catlyn's, a wonderful gourmet-to-go deli, makes.

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1 Recipe Reviews

kimfunnell

kimfunnell reviewed Catlyn's Chocolate Zucchini Cake on August 10, 2005

I loved the recipe and have made it several times. One problem was you did not list the amount of baking powder. I used 1 tsp. hoping that would be correct. It came out fine.