Great-Grandma's Chocolate Zucchini Cake

"I always remember my great-gramdma making this cake, so when I was given a 3-foot long zucchini by my boyfriend's parents, I called my mom for the recipe. It put a small dent in that monster gourd! This was my first attempt at a cake from scratch and it didn't collapse, so it can't be that tough if I did it."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 10mins
Ingredients:
15
Serves:
10
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Cream together butter, oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla.
  • Stir lemon juice into milk to make sour milk.
  • Stir sour milk into creamed mixture.
  • Sift baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, flour and cocoa THREE times.
  • Gradually stir dry ingredients into wet mixture until completely combined, then stir in zucchini.
  • Pour batter into a greased 9x13 cake pan and sprinkle top with chocolate chips.
  • Bake for 40-45 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Reviews

  1. This cake is absolutely delicious! It?s moist, rich in flavours, with a perfect balance between the spices, the courgette and the sweet chocolate, and it?s one of your 5 a day! Thank you :)
     
  2. Easy to do and yummy! I used only 3/4 cup sugar. Sweet enough for my taste. And I did exactly the same for the recipe. And after 40 minutes it was ready. And the smell was amazing :) Thanks Tasha Leah.
     
  3. This was good but I added in more cocoa powder, I used frozen well drained zucchini and increased the cinnamon, we enjoyed this, thanks for sharing Tasha!...Kitten:)
     
  4. Recipe is well-laid out (organized step-by-step!!!), and absolutely moist and delicious. I've been making this SAME recipe for years with ONE exception: at the end, I add a 1/2-cup of brown sugar to the topping, which gives the top a neat crunchy sweetness. Thanks for posting this one, it's DEFINITELY a keeper!!!
     
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After graduating from college in spring of 2007, I am now working as a Traffic Engineer. Now that I have free time instead of homework, I've been trying all sorts of new recipes that are more involved. I am always trying to get healthy food into my husband and 7-year old step-son. I am slowly wearing on them, both of them will finally eat vegetables with every dinner. Both of them like helping in the kitchen, especially on mini pizza nights! We have a 4-year old male lab/golden retriever mix and when the two "boys" get going, look out! I participated in my in-law's family Christmas party this year by bringing almond roca. It was a huge hit and everyone wants it again next get-together! I will definately bring it again, but I don't want to give the recipe out to them because it is so easy and I like them thinking I worked by butt off!! A cooking tragedy I once had in high school: I was making some pesto for my mom and I to have with lunch. At the time, I didn't know the difference between a clove and a bulb of garlic and I ended up putting about half a bulb of garlic in the recipe then stopped because I though "two whole bulbs would be a lot"... the recipe read 2 cloves ... Needless to say, we had bad breath for days and I never forgot what a clove was!! I haven't tried all of my posted recipes, but if I posted them I thought they sounded good and figured I should give someone else the chance to try them before I get to them. <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/projects/200_PACpic.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"> <img src="http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/Adopted1smp.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket">
 
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