Categories: Desserts
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 3/4 cup oil
- 3 eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 21/2 cups flour
- 11/2 tsp baking powder
- 11/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup milk
- 21/4 cups grated zucchini
- For Chocolate Frosting
- 1 stick butter, melted
- ⅔ Cup Cocoa
- 3 Cups Powder sugar
- ⅓ cup milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
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Chocolate Lover’s Zucchini Cake
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Preheat oven to 325°.
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Grease and flour a Bundt pan.
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In a large mixing bowl, mix sugar, oil, and eggs together until creamy.
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Add in vanilla, and mix until well combined.
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In a smaller bowl, stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cinnamon, and salt together with a small whisk just to blend everything together.
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Add flour mixture in with the sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla. Mix well.
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Slowly mix in the milk.
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After everything is well combined, stir in the zucchini.
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Pour into bundt pan and bake for approximately 60 minutes.
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Cake will be done when tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
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*Check cake at 50-55 minutes
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Chocolate Frosting
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In a medium size mixing bowl, add melted butter. Mix in cocoa.
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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.
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After frosting is well blended, add in vanilla.
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Makes about 2 cups of frosting.
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Frost cake once cake has cooled.