Dees Blue Ribbon Zucchini Cake Recipes

BLUE RIBBON ZUCCHINI NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
• Sift together plain flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and baking powder.
• Beat eggs well.
• Gradually add sugar and oil, beat together well.
• Add vanilla and dry ingredients from above blend well.
• Stir in the zucchini.
• Combine walnuts and 1 tsp of flour, stir this into the batter.
• Pour batter between two 2 greased (I use baking paper) 8 1/2" x 4 1/2" x 2 1/2" loaf tins.
• Bake for 1 hour or till tests done (skewer poked in the middle comes out clean).
• Cool in tins on racks for 10 minutes before removing from tins, cool on racks.

DEE'S BLUE RIBBON ZUCCHINI CAKE/BREAD

Steps:

• Slice, seed and coarsely grate 2 to 4 large zucchini.
• Place about a handful or two of the grated zucchini into cheesecloth, or a clean cotton dish towel (do not use a terry cloth dish towel), and squeeze it until very dry; repeat with the remaining grated zucchini.
• Measure out 2 well packed cups of the prepared zucchini for the recipe.
• Grease and flour a 12 cup bundt pan (or two 8x4-inch loaf pans).
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a bowl, sift together the flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, salt, and baking soda.
• In a large bowl, beat eggs until light.
• Gradually add sugar, and continue beating until thick and lemon colored.
• Continue beating egg/sugar mixture, while adding the oil in a thin stream, beat until all is well blended.
• By hand, stir in vanilla, zucchini, nuts and raisins.
• Add the sifted dry ingredients, and stir until well mixed.
• Pour batter into prepared pan(s).
• Bake at 350°F for 60 to 75 minutes or until a cake tester (or wooden toothpick) inserted into the center comes out clean.
• Remove from oven and place pan(s) on wire rack to cool.
• Let cool in the pan(s) for about 5 minutes, remove cake from pan(s) and return the cake to the wire rack to continue cooling.
• Cake should be completely cooled before slicing.

BEST ZUCCHINI CAKE EVER

Steps:

• cups Flour
• teaspoon Salt
• /4 teaspoon Baking Powder
• teaspoons Baking Soda
• tablespoon Cinnamon
• tablespoons Cocoa, unsweetened
• Eggs
• cups Sugar
• cup Oil
• Tablespoon Vanilla
• cups Zucchini - grated
• cup Nuts - I like walnuts in this recipe
• Instructions
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly spray 13x9 pan with cooking spray
• Mix all ingredients in a large bowl until well combined, do not overmix
• Pour into pan and bake for 50-60 minutes or when a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean
• Cool completely
• Dust with powdered sugar and serve with whipping cream if desired
• Notes
• You can peel the zucchini or leave the peel on, either way is fine. Then roughly chop and grate in the food processor.

ZUCCHINI RIBBONS WITH HERBED BUTTER

Steps:

• Slice the zucchini into long ribbons 1/16-inch thick using a mandoline slicer.
• Add the butter and oil to a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the shallots then the zucchini in two batches and toss through the hot butter and oil, using tongs, until soft, a good 4 to 5 minutes. Add the basil, parsley and lemon zest at the very end. Season the zucchini with salt and pepper and stir. Transfer to a serving bowl.

ZUCCHINI KUCHEN (GORGEOUS ZUCCHINI CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a large loaf pan with butter.
• Stir zucchini, sugar, 3/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil, eggs, and vanilla extract together in a bowl.
• Combine flour, walnuts, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. Gradually stir flour mixture into zucchini mixture until combined. Pour batter into the prepared loaf pan.
• Bake in preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 60 to 80 minutes. Let cool in the pan, about 30 minutes. Dust with confectioners' sugar.

STREUSELED ZUCCHINI BUNDT CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, beat the zucchini, yogurt, sugar, egg whites, oil, egg and 3 teaspoons vanilla until well blended. In a small bowl, combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually beat into zucchini mixture until blended., Coat a 10-in. fluted tube pan with cooking spray; sprinkle with bread crumbs. Pour a third of the batter into pan. Combine brown sugar, walnuts, raisins, cinnamon and allspice; sprinkle half over batter. Top with another third of the batter. Sprinkle with remaining brown sugar mixture; top with remaining batter. , Bake at 350° for 55-65 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. , In a small bowl, combine confectioners' sugar, remaining vanilla and enough milk to achieve desired consistency; drizzle over cake.

ZUCCHINI CAKE IV

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour 4 loaf pans.
• In a medium bowl, mix together flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cinnamon. Set aside.
• In a large bowl, combine sugar, oil, eggs and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Add flour mixture, and beat until smooth. Fold in walnuts and grated zucchini.
• Divide batter into 4 well greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 60 minutes or until toothpick inserted into middle of cake comes out clean.