Wednesday, November 30, 2011

A treat for the Holiday's

My good blogger friend Angela V. Cook is doing a little blog hop today that doubles as a holiday treat recipe exchange. A while back I told you all what the BEST cake in the world is, but I didn't give you a recipe. Well, no time like the present!



This is my favorite cake because it is so moist and chocolaty with the perfect blend of spices. It is seriously heaven on a plate, and I don't even like Zucchini!

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

2 Cups grated Zucchini
1/2 Cup soft butter
1 3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 eggs 1 tsp. salt
1/2 Cup Sour Cream
1tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups flour
4 Tbs. Cocoa
1/2 tsp. Baking Soda
1/4 tsp. Baking Powder
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. Cloves
6 oz Chocolate Chips

Cream together the sugar, butter, eggs, oil and vanilla. Stir in the remaining ingredients excluding the the zucchini and chocolate chips. Fold in zucchini and pour into a ungreased 9 X 13 pan. Sprinkle chocolate chips on top and bake for 40-45 minutes.

There you have it, eat and enjoy my friends, eat and enjoy.

What's your favorite Holiday Treat?

22 comments:

Joanne said...

I often see zucchini in cake and bread recipes. I'm guessing it makes for a very moist cake here, this looks de-lish.

Chocolate cake is my favorite, with a little scoop of ice-cream on the side :)

Angela V. Cook said...

Wow, that looks awesome!! Thanks for sharing, and participating!! :o)

Margo Kelly said...

and ... now I need cake ... thanks.
:)

Jen Nelson said...

That looks good. I've made a good zucchini chocolate chip cake before, and I really liked it. I will have to try this one with the spices too.

Joshua said...

You lost me at zucchini, but I think I can still make it without it. Mmm...chocolate.

Ava Jae said...

Huh. Does the zucchini change the way it tastes at all?

WilyBCool said...

Mmmm.. looks good!

;D

David P. King said...

All right. That looks downright scrumptious. :)

J. A. Bennett said...

@Ava - no it does not, the only thing it does is add moisture to the cake :)

sarahflight said...

This looks gorgeous although sounds odd, but I'm always willing to try new things cake wise :P

http://sarahflight.blogspot.com/

Emily R. King said...

Yum! A good way to eat my veggies. : )

davwalk said...

Glad to add zucchini or anything else that adds moisture, but could you please remove all the carbs for us diabetics?

cherie said...

I love zucchini bread! So I can only imagine what a chocolate zucchini CAKE would be like! Mmmm...nom nom nom. ;)

Jenny S. Morris said...

OMG. I am totally doing this for Christmas. I Love zucchini!! And we won't talk about my chocolate addiction. Thanks Jen!

Laila Knight said...

Yum...I'll bet this would go great with my recent addiction to hot cocoa. :)

Chantele Sedgwick said...

Those. Look. Amazing. I have loads of zuchinni in my freezer! Thank you!! :D

Leigh Covington said...

OoooH! Heavenly! I'm always up for some chocolate zucchini cake! So glad you shared!

Patricia Tilon said...

Looks yummy. Never heard of zucchini in a chocolate cake -- jst bread. Thanks for sharing!

Cortney Pearson said...

Looks yummy! My fave holiday treat is stocking candy! Gum drops, chocolate santas, life savers...mmm, drooling here.

The Golden Eagle said...

Chocolate zucchini? Now that sounds good!

Peggy Eddleman said...

Mmmm. Chocolate Zucchini cake is one of my very favorites! I think I pretty much LOVE anything that contains zucchini.

ebru özgün said...

Hmmm looks very delicious