Chocolate Lovers Recipe Book Recipe Cards Recipe For Zucchini

CHOCOLATE LOVER'S ZUCCHINI CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°.
• Grease and flour a Bundt pan.
• In a large mixing bowl, mix sugar, oil, and eggs together until creamy.
• Add in vanilla, and mix until well combined.
• In a smaller bowl, stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cinnamon, and salt together with a small whisk just to blend everything together.
• Add flour mixture in with the sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla. Mix well.
• Slowly mix in the milk.
• After everything is well combined, stir in the zucchini.
• Pour into bundt pan and bake for approximately 60 minutes.
• Cake will be done when tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
• *Check cake at 50-55 minutes
• In a medium size mixing bowl, add melted butter. Mix in cocoa.
• Next add in some powder sugar and then milk, then some powder sugar then milk. Repeat until all is well mixed. Mix on low speed.
• After frosting is well blended, add in vanilla.
• Makes about 2 cups of frosting.
• Frost cake once cake has cooled.

SPICED CHOCOLATE-ZUCCHINI BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a loaf pan.
• Blend sugar and oil together in a mixing bowl. Beat in eggs and vanilla; add grated zucchini. Stir in flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, salt, baking powder, and allspice. Hand mix in chocolate chips and nuts. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out mostly clean, about 50 minutes.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI BARS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 325 degrees. coat 13x9x2 inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• in a large bowl, whisk together flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, cinnamon and baking powder. set aside.
• in another large bowl, beat shortening, oil, sugar and egg on low speed until smooth. beat in sour cream and vanilla, then flour mixture. beat on medium for 2 minutes.fold in zucchini and chocolate.
• spread into pan. sprinkle nuts on top. bake 325 for 30 to 35 min or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. cool in pan on wire rack. to serve, cut into 16 bars.