Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake

Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake RecipeI have a favorite carrot cake recipe that I’ve made dozens of times.  It’s simple and straight forward.  No pineapple and no nuts.  I’m not against either in a carrot cake but more often than not, I make my carrot cake for a dear friend who happens to prefer her cake sans pineapple.  And, although I am a huge fan of nuts in carrot cake, she is allergic to nuts so I leave them out.  It’s still a great little cake, with lots of spice and slathered with a thick coating of good ole cream cheese frosting.  (At the last minute I decided to add a bit of color by sprinkling some chopped pistachios on top of the cake.)
Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake RecipeChocolate Spice Zucchini Cake RecipeYears ago, I clipped a recipe for a chocolate zucchini cake from a newspaper.  By the time I got around to making it, I had misplaced the clipping.  I assumed it would turn up eventually, but it never did.  So, I finally just decided to come up with my own recipe for Chocolate Zucchini Cake by simply tweaking my carrot cake recipe.  For the chocolate component, I added deep, dark cocoa powder.  I subbed in grated zucchini for the carrot, and added cardamom along with the other spices.
Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake RecipeChocolate Spice Zucchini Cake RecipeI guess it’s possible that one day that old clipped zucchini cake recipe will turn up. but even if it does, I can’t imagine liking it any better than this one here.  It’s moist, and chocolatey, and studded with little green specks of grated zucchini.  As the saying goes, ‘if it ain’t broke, why fix it?’.
Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake Recipe

 

 




3 thoughts on “Chocolate Spice Zucchini Cake

  1. Oh Mary! I am lingering over your lush spring photos and wondering why I didn’t try to find a sunny spot (in my foggy coastal yard) to plant zucchini this year. Such a scrumptious way to enjoy the summer bounty that will soon arrive.

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