Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Zucchinis are on their prime time and at a very affordable price, it is time to make a delicious chocolate zucchini cake or chococchini cake, how I like to call it, LOL.
If you have make zucchini cake in the past you will love this new recipe, the cake turns out super soft and taste de-li-cious!
I used green zucchinis but you can substitute them with gray zucchinis, texture and flavor might be slightly different.
I used my cake pan as template to cut out the circle of parchment paper to put in the bottom of my cake pan, but if you like to bake a lot, these baking mats are a great buy!
The cake really turned our very pretty and it does not need to be cover, but I used a paper doilies to decorate the top part of the cake and in the middle I put a thin layer of the traditional cream cheese frosting.
This is my favorite chocolate cake now, I hope you can give it a try, I am pretty sure you will love it!
Chocolate Zucchini Cake Preparation time: 15 minutes | Baking time: 1 hr + 15 minutes | Servings: 12 slices |
Ingredients:2 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1/2 cup cocoa powder 2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 3 tbsp cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp sea salt 3 cups zucchini-shredded 4 eggs- at room temperature 2 1/2 cups sugar 1 1/2 cups extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp vanilla extract 1 cup chopped pecans
ProcedurePreheat oven at 300ºF
1) Prepared two 8 inches round cake pans with a round cake mat or a piece of parchment paper in the bottom, then grease and flour them. Set aside.
2) Sift together all the dry ingredients. 3) Using a stand mixer with the paddle beat the eggs until light and fluffy at medium high speed for about 3 minutes. 4) Gradually add the sugar and mix for 2 minutes at same speed. 5) At a medium speed stir in olive oil, zucchini and vanilla. Mix well until combine for 1-2 minutes. 6) At the lowest speed start adding the dry ingredients and the pecans, mix until combine for 1-2 minutes. 7) Pour into prepared pan and bake until cake springs back when gently pressed with fingertip. 8) Bake from 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours. 9) Let them cool down and decorate with cream cheese frosting or just sprinkle some powdered sugar on top.
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