Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake

This is one of my own recipes. A chocolate cake with a slight Mexican taste.

• Ready In: 1 hr 15 mins
• Serves: 12
• Yields: 1 ten inch tube cake

Ingredients

• 1  cup flour
• 1  teaspoon baking powder
• 1  teaspoon cinnamon
• 1⁄2 teaspoon baking soda
• 1⁄2 cup  cocoa
• 1⁄2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1⁄2 teaspoon clove
• 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄4 cups brown sugar, packed
• 3⁄4 cup  oil
• 2  eggs
• 1  teaspoon vanilla
• 1 1⁄2 cups  grated zucchini
• 1⁄2 cup  chopped walnuts
• 1⁄2 cup raisins

Directions

1. Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan.
2. Preheat oven to 350°.
3. Stir together flour, baking powder, cocoa, spices, salt and baking soda; set aside.
4. In large bowl beat oil and brown sugar till well combined.
5. Add eggs and vanilla, blending well.
6. Stir in zucchini.
7. Stir nuts and raisins into dry mixture and then stir dry into the wet mixture until well mixed.
8. Pour into prepared pan.
9. Bake 350° 45-50 minutes till it tests done.
10. Cool 15 minutes, then turn out and finish cooling on wire rack.
11. Serve plain or topped with Cool whip/or whipped cream.