Zucchini Cake

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

So at the Goswick Family, additionally to our high population of Apricots, we have other veggies and fruits from our trees and garden this year. Unfortuntely for my story, I can't say that we grew the Zucchini squash used in this delicious cake. It's tragic. We have squash bugs. They are evil little devils. My mom and I go outside to the garden to go squash bug hunting. We cut them in half with garden shears. Yes. Pretty graphic. Well, they destroy everything! They've eaten all our pumpkins, zucchini, cucumbers, squash.... We have no sympathy. 

But fortunately for us our best friends, The Wallaces, don't have squash bugs, meaning that we get lots of goodies from them...including beautiful zucchini. So I decided to make a cake. (Zucchini are also a great option to put in pancakes. Chocolate zucchini pancakes...are you kidding me?! DELISH.) 

Look below the photos for the complete recipe.

 

Ingredients: 

For the Cake: 

1/2 Cup Soft Butter

1/2 Cup oil 

1 3/4 cup sugar

1tsp Vanilla

2 eggs

1/2 cup milk, buttermilk, or cream

2 1/2 cups flour 

1/4 cup cocoa

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

2 cups shredded zucchini 

For the Topping: 

3/4 cup chocolate chips

1/4 and 1 tbsp cup brown sugar

3/4 cup chopped nuts 

Instructions:

Preheat oven at 350 Degrees F 

1. Mix all cake ingredients together with mixer.

2. Make topping and spread over cake batter.

3. Bake for 60 min

xo

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