Moms Chocolate Zucchini Cake

Submitted by Dave5003

"recipe won a prize in a cake contest for my Mom!"

 

• Ready In: 1hr 30mins
• Ingredients: 13
• Yields: 36 pieces

ingredients

• 1⁄2 cup margarine
• 1⁄2 cup oil
• 1 3⁄4 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1⁄2 cup sour milk
• 2 1⁄2 cups flour
• 4 tablespoons baking cocoa
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 cups zucchini, finely shredded (press out any excess liquid)
• 1⁄2 cup chocolate chips

directions

1. There are many versions of this recipe, this one we like the best for our family! Beat margarine,oil and sugar well.
2. Beat in eggs, vanilla and sour milk.
3. Sift dry ingredients and beat into mixture. Stir in zucchini.
4. Pour batter into a greased and floured tube or Bundt pan.
5. Sprinkle top of batter with chips ( Or could stir into batter if you wish ) Bake in a 325F oven 40 to 45 minutes or tested done. Cool in pan 15 minutes and carefully remove to finish cooling.Sprinkle with powder sugar if desired.
6. Freezes well and tastes wonderful!

Reviews

[sharibomke]

Awesome cake. I substituted the oil with applesauce and used 1/4 c. cocoa. I added 1 tsp salt as I compared it with other recipes and they had salt. Moist and delicious! A real keeper.

 

[Maybey]

I made this recipe and just wanted to say that the cake really needs to cook much longer! I had it in for about 60-65 minutes!

 

[jnebia]

Great cake I start making this once I have a few too many zucchinis. Like today!!!!

 

[chillibite]

Not as great a recipe as the reviews would indicate. It tasted pleasant enough but it took almost DOUBLE the time to bake! I eventually cranked the heat up to 350 and it still took forever. It was OK, but not as good as some others I have tried.

 

[csilcox75]

This is the best chocolate zucchini recipe I have used. This will be the only one I will ever use again, Thank You so much for sharing this recipe. (I didn't change a thing). Both of my girls loved this: they keep running out to the garden in hopes to find more zucchinis so I can make more. This cake also freezes wonderfully. I made two cakes sliced one of the cakes into indivual servings and then flashed freezed the cake on waxed paper. I bagged the cake slices and take out what I need in the morning....always taste great.