chocolate and zucchini cake

(from jkluender’s recipe box)

I added the chocolate chunks…just for another layer of chocolate and another dimension of texture to the cake. YUM.
I baked this in a plain tube pan (because I didn’t have a nice bundt pan yet)…next time I definitely would make it in the fancy bundt pan…if for asthetic reasons only.

Source: thedomesticgoddess (from RecipeThing user bradleygirl) (from RecipeThing user metzj)

Cook time: 60 minutes

Ingredients

  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 teaspoons grated orange zest
  • 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)
  • 3/4 cup chocolate chunks

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.

  2. Combine the four, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.

  3. With a mixer, beat together the butter and the sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini.

  4. Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into the zucchini mixture, including the nuts and chocolate chunks with the last addition.

  5. Pour the batter into a greased and flour-dusted 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan. Bake in the oven for about 1 hour (test at 45 minutes) or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes; turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly.

  6. Drizzle glaze over cake.

  7. Glaze-Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 Tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth.

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