This afternoon, while going through my recipe book looking for another use for zucchini I came across a chocolate zucchini cake recipe scribbled on a piece of paper and thought I'd give it a go. Normally when I write a recipe down I note where I've got it from. I didn't do it with this one and I can't remember where it came from, so if any of you out there reading this recognise it please let me know so that I can link it back from whence it came.
Ingredients.
1/2 cup butter
11/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 tspn. vanilla
1/2 cup milk
21/2 cups SR flour
4 Tblspns. cocoa
1 tsp. bicarb soda
1/2 tspn cinnamon
1/2 tspn. salt
2 cups grated zucchini
Method
Cream butter and sugar
Beat in eggs
Add milk and vanilla
Add sifted dry ingredients
Stir in zucchini
Pour into 23cm x 30cm tin
Bake at 160 c for 40- 45 mins,
Delicious.....
It certainly will be one of our regulars over summer while ever the zucchini glut is on!
Oh, I'm hearing you! I can't say I'm picking 4kg, but I am having to be a bit creative.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I can make my soon to be 2 year old's birthday cake with this recipe... is that mean?
I love zuchinnis. I have fond memories of doing vegetable picking while backpacking. It wasn't fun to pick them but they gave my 2-minute noodles (all I could afford to eat) good flavour.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite recipe is simple:
Zuchinnis, tomatoes, onions, and chilli cooked in a saucepan (no need for water as there is plenty from the veges)...yum yum yum
Oh yum! I love a home grown zuke and sadly the growing season is fairly short here in Tassie. Long enough to have a good lash at them but not long enough to eat more than you need..... until I get my polytunnel up and running! Can't wait !!!
ReplyDeleteI love zucchini any way it's prepared. This past summer we ate quite a bit in chocolate cupcakes. I also like it in bread, or grated and mixed in fried rice.
ReplyDeleteI am curious, what is a glut? That is not a term I have heard before. :)
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Hi Tracey, a glut is an over abundance.
ReplyDeleteThe kids and I make this cake at zuchinni time too, Kate...it is delicious. I can't remember where I got mine either now as I have been baking it for years. Hopefully we will have a harvest like yours soon, I am just thinking about that cake now.
ReplyDeleteThe cake is delicious and would be perfect for birthday cake I think!
ReplyDeleteI have a handwritten recipe in my folder called "Wwoofer's Zuke Bread", given to me by a wwoofer years ago. It's not really a bread - very definitely a cake in my terms, but the kind of cake you can eat every day and put in a kid's lunch box without feeling guilty. And I've morphed it a little. The basic recipe is here. One of the things I like about it is that it's a mix-it-up-and-bake recipe - no creaming or beating. My other favourite thing to do with a zucchini glut is Lebanese Marinated Zucchini. I keep a jar going in the fridge all summer and we have it on sandwiches and as a side. And, lately, I've been managing to use a zucchini or two for breakfast in zucchini and feta patties - basically grated zucchini, grated feta, eggs, bit of basil, garlic and chili, just enough flour to make a fritter type batter and shallow fry. Very yum. And then, when all else fails, the chooks get to live on zucchini for a while.
ReplyDeleteThanks Linda for all those wonderful ideas and the recipe. Mark also made zucchini fritters for breakfast this morning. I wonder if we will have zucchini for every meal!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kate for the cake recipe. I am sitting at the table looking at a basket of zucchini's wondering what I was going to do with them!!
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