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Chocolate Zucchini Cake

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Course Dessert
Servings 1

Ingredients
  

For the cake

  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 3/4 cup canola oil
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2.5 cups cups all-purpose flour
  • 1.5 tsp baking powder
  • 1.5 tsp baking soda
  • 1/2 cup cocoa
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 zucchini (grated)

For Chocolate Frosting

  • 1 stick butter, melted
  • 2/3 cup cocoa
  • 1.5 cups cups powder sugar (icing sugar)
  • 1/3 cup milk
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract

Instructions
 

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

  • Preheat oven to 325C.
  • Grease a cake pan
  • In a large mixing bowl, mix sugar, oil and eggs together until creamy
  • Add vanilla, and mix until well combined.
  • In a small mixing bowl, stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cinnamon and salt together with a small whisk just t blend everything together.
  • Add flour mixture in with the sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla. Mix well.
  • Slowly mix in the milk.
  • After everything is well combined, stir in the zucchini.
  • Pour into cake pan and bake for approximately 60 minutes.
  • Cake will be done when toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Chocolate Frosting

  • Frost cake once cake has cooled.
  • In a medium size mixing bowl, add melted butter. Mix in cocoa.
  • Next add in some powder sugar and then milk, then some powder sugar then milk. Repeat until all is well mixed. Mix on low speed.
  • After frosting is well blended, add in vanilla extract.

Notes

I decorated with raspberries, blueberries and blackberries.