By dhudson15
BigOven
When I first encountered Clotilde Dusoulier's fabulous Chocolate and Zucchini website, I thought to myself, "How wonderful, the ingredients of my favorite cake!" My grandmother taught me how to bake when I was very young, and later when I was in high school she sent us a recipe pulled from Sunset Magazine for Chocolate and Zucchini Cake. Being adventurous, and knowing how good zucchini bread tastes, I tried it and it quickly became my favorite - the standard against which all future chocolate cakes were measured. The main distinction of this particular cake is its moistness. Today mom pulled the recipe out of some forgotten folder, still intact from the September 1974 issue of Sunset. I haven't made the cake in over twenty years, but it is still as delicious as I remember it. Here's to you Clotilde! Happy belated Birthday and thank you for the inspiration of Chocolate and Zucchini.
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Ingredients
2 1/2 cups regular all-purpose flour; unsifted
1/2 cup Cocoa powder
2 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1 1/2 teaspoon Baking soda
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
3/4 cup Butter; Soft
2 cups Sugar
3 ea Eggs
2 teaspoon Vanilla
2 teaspoon Orange Peel; Grated
2 cups zucchini; coarsely shredded
1/2 cup milk
1 cup walnuts or pecans; chopped
Glaze:
2 cups Powdered sugar
3 tablespoons Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla
Original recipe makes 12 Servings
Preparation
Preheat the oven to 350F.
1) Combine the four, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
[post_ads]2) 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.
3) Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into the zucchini mixture, including the nuts with the last addition.
4) Pour the batter into a greased and flour-dusted 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan. Bake in the oven for about 50 minutes (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.
5) Drizzle glaze over cake.
Glaze: Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 Tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Beat until smooth.
Notes
A hint from Mary D., Peal and seed the Zukes before grating
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Nutrition
Calories per serving: 565
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