Greenhouse Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Our friends in Taos, New Mexico once published this recipe – we just couldn’t get enough of this yummy treat, and wish to pass it on to our fellow gardeners…(** as originally from a friend of Yart, Janine N; Yart leaves out the ingredients with the asterisks.)
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Cream together:
1/2 cup **margarine (I use butter.)
1 cup vegetable oil (odds are I use olive oil)
1 3/4 cups sugar
Add:
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp **almond extract (which I never put in)
1/2 cup sour milk (1/2 cup milk with 1/2 teaspoon white vinegar in it)
Mix well and add:
4 tbsp cocoa (I put in twice this much myself)
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
2 1/2 or 3 cups white flour
Stir in:
2 cups zucchini, shredded
1 – 12 oz package chocolate chips (use the REAL ones, not the cheap chocolate liquor ones, you won’t be sorry)
Pour into greased and floured 9″ x 13″ x 2″ pan.
Bake at 325 degrees for 45-60 minutes.
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