Chocolate Zucchini Cake
This moist, fudgy and oh-so-delicious cake is a great way to use up your garden zucchini harvest.
Recipe - ST. LOUIS PARK (+Wines & Spirits)
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
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Servings15
Cook Time50 Minutes
Ingredients
½ cup unsalted butter, room temperature
½ cup vegetable oil
1 ¾ cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
2 eggs
½ cup buttermilk
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon baking powder
2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
½ cup chopped walnuts
Directions
- Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
- Heat oven to 325 F.
- Cream ½ cup room temperature unsalted butter, ½ cup vegetable oil and 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar; blend in 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 eggs and ½ cup buttermilk.
- In separate bowl, combine 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon baking powder; stir into creamed mixture with 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini.
- Pour cake batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle with ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and ½ cup chopped walnuts.
- Bake until cake tests done with a wooden pick, about 50 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
Makes 15-18 servings.
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Prep Time
50 minutes
Cook Time
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Shop Ingredients
Makes 15 servings
Kerrygold Unsalted Pure Irish Butter Sticks, 8 Ounce
$8.39$1.05/oz
Wesson Vegetable Oil, 24 Ounce
$4.19$0.17/oz
C&H Pure Cane Granulated White Sugar, 10 Pound
$15.19$1.52/lb
L&B Organic Pure Vanilla Extract, 2 Ounce
$7.99$4.00/oz
Vital Farms Organic Restorative Large Eggs, 12 Each
$9.99$0.83 each
Prairie Farms Lowfat Buttermilk, 64 Ounce
$4.49$0.07/oz
Gold Medal All-Purpose Flour, 5 Pound
$5.49$1.10/lb
TCHO Super Powder Unsweetened Cocoa Powder, 6.7 Ounce
$6.99$1.04/oz
Our Family Baking Soda, 16 Ounce
$1.19$0.07/oz
Morton Fine Sea Salt, 17.6 Ounce
$4.89$0.28/oz
Argo Baking Powder, 12 Ounce
$3.39$0.28/oz
Green Zucchini, 0.33 Pound
$0.99 avg/ea$2.99/lb
Nestle Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels, 24 Ounce
$11.29$0.47/oz
L&B Chopped Walnuts, 4 Ounce
$5.99$1.50/oz
Directions
- Grease and flour a 9x13-inch baking pan.
- Heat oven to 325 F.
- Cream ½ cup room temperature unsalted butter, ½ cup vegetable oil and 1 ¾ cups granulated sugar; blend in 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract, 2 eggs and ½ cup buttermilk.
- In separate bowl, combine 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour, ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon baking powder; stir into creamed mixture with 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini.
- Pour cake batter into prepared pan. Sprinkle with ½ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips and ½ cup chopped walnuts.
- Bake until cake tests done with a wooden pick, about 50 minutes.
- Cool on wire rack.
Makes 15-18 servings.