Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Source of Recipe
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List of Ingredients
2-1/2 cups regular all purpose flour, unsifted
1/2 cup cocoa
2-1/2 tsp. baking powder
1-1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
3/4 cup soft butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla extract
2 tsp. grated orange peel
2 cups zucchini, seeded, coarsely shredded
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Glaze (directions follow)
Recipe
Combine the four, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon;
set aside.
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.
Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into the zucchini
mixture,
including the nuts with the last addition.
Pour the batter into a greased, floured or granulated sugar dusted
10" tube
pan or Bundt pan.
Bake in the oven for about 45 to 50 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.
Drizzle glaze over cake.
~~~Glaze~~~
Mix together:
2 cups powdered sugar,
3 TB milk
1 tsp. vanilla extract.
Beat until smooth. Cut cake into thin slices to serve.
Makes 10-12 servings.
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