Bake a Cake!

While going thru my freezer this morning I decided to pull out some frozen zucchini to make a cake! Just for fun! YUM!

The complete recipe is listed below, but I did use applesauce in place of the vegetable oil, and for probably the first time ever, I used actual buttermilk!
Growing up, we always sprinkled chocolate chips on the top and then baked the cake. The chips stay on the top, and that's in place of a frosting. After today's cake came out, most of the chips had sunk in so that you could only see about 5. Weird. But the thing was, I really, really wanted frosting...I asked my husband what he thought and he said to frost it anyway, so I used half of a chocolate buttercream recipe and that was just enough to cover this 9x13 cake. And it made it soooo rich! And! we discovered that most of the chocolate chips had sunk to the bottom of this cake! Weird!!

 

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

(Cheryl Lawrence)

½ cup soft margarine                                                  ½ cup oil

1 ¾ cup sugar                                                              2 ½ cups flour
2 eggs                                                                          4 tbsp cocoa powder
½ cup sour milk or buttermilk                                    1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp cinnamon                                                            ½ tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg                                                               1 tsp soda
2 cups grated zucchini                                                           

Cream Margarine, oil and sugar. Add eggs, vanilla and milk. Separately blend flour, cocoa, salt, soda an spices. Mix oil-sugar mixture. Add zucchini. Pour into 9x13x2 inch pan which has been greased and floured. Top with chocolate chips and nuts if desired. Bake 40-45 minutes at 350*