Chocolate zuchini cake

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Chocolate zuchini cake

 

2-1/2 cup flour

3/4 cup butter

2-1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1-1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon cinnamin

1/3 cup cocoa

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

2 cups shredded zuchini

1/2 cup milk

1 tablespoon vanilla

 

Combine flour, baking powder, soda, salt, cinnamin and cocoa and set

aside.

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat until

smooth. Add zuchini.

Mix in dry ingredients alternately with milk. Mix well.

Pour into a bundt cake pan or a tube pan, that has been greased and

floured or sprayed with cooking spray.

Bake at 350 degrees for 60 minutes or until firm on top.

 

Frost with chocolate gloss below:

1/2 cup sugar

1-1/2 tablespoon cornstarch

1- 1oz. square of unsweetened chocolate

1/2 c water

dash of salt

1-1/2 tablespoon butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

 

Combine sugar, cornstarch and add chocolate, salt and 1/2 cup of water.

Cook, stirring until thickened and bubbly and chocolate melts.

Remove from heat; add butter and vanilla. While hot, frost cake.