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Chocolate Zucchini Cake I made Chocolate Zucchini Cake yesterday with the kids and it is really dense and moist, I didn't add the topping or any icing, but they'd probably be...

I made Chocolate Zucchini Cake yesterday with the kids and it is really dense and moist, I didn’t add the topping or any icing, but they’d probably be good with cream cheese icing or something simple like that, too.

Ingredients:

½ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1 ¼ cups plain flour
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon cinnamon
¼ cup cocoa
¼ cup butter, softened
¼ cup oil (canola or grapeseed – a light oil)
1/3 cup sugar
½ teaspoon orange rind, grated
½ teaspoon vanilla essence
1 egg
1 cup zucchini, finely grated
¼ cup milk

Topping (optional)

¼ cup chopped walnuts
¼ cup chocolate bits

Sift bicarb soda, flour, salt, cinnamon and cocoa into a bowl and set aside. In another bowl, add butter, oil, sugar, orange rind and vanilla and mix well. Add the egg, then the zucchini, to the wet ingredients and mix until combined. Add the sifted dry ingredients and the milk to the wet ingredients and mix until combined.

Pour into a greased or lined ring tin and sprinkle with topping (optional). Bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes.

Recipe Hints and Tips:

To make individual cakes, ¾ fill patty cases and bake for 17-20 minutes.
Cake is suitable to freeze. Let cool to room temperature and double wrap in plastic wrap. Freeze for up to two months.

Recipe from Stay at Home Mum’s Food Editor, Cassy Billingsley

Jody Allen

Publish Date: 26.08.2012 | Time: 5:23 am