Chocolate Zucchini Cake
This decadent chocolate cake is hiding healthy zucchini, but you wouldn't know it.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups zucchini shredded
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Dry ingredients:
- 1 cup flour all purpose or whole wheat
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Wet ingredients:
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup apple sauce unsweetened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For the frosting
- Note: NOT a healthy frosting. Feel free to use your own favourite frosting!
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 3 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons milk
Instructions
- Lay shredded zucchini out on a cookie sheet and sprinkle with salt. Let rest for 20 minutes, then place in a clean dish cloth or paper towel and squeeze out all the water.
- Preheat oven to 350 and line a 9x9 baking dish with parchment paper.
- In a large mixing bowl, add all of the dry ingredients and whisk them together.
- Add the wet ingredients as well as the zucchini to the dry ingredients and mix to combine everything. The batter will be thick like a brownie batter.
- Transfer the batter to the prepared baking dish and bake it for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Transfer the cake to a cooling rack to cool completely before frosting.
- To make frosting, mix melted butter and cocoa powder in a bowl. Add the vanilla, powdered sugar and milk and mix until well combined. If mixture is too thick, add more milk a teaspoon at a time. If it is too runny, add more powdered sugar.
- Frost cake and enjoy!
Notes
The nutritional information is an estimate and does not include the frosting.
Note: Metric ingredient measurements are provided as a courtesy using a third-party calculator and are rounded to the nearest unit. The recipes provided on this site have not been tested with metric measurements and their accuracy cannot be verified.
Nutrition
Calories: 102kcalCarbohydrates: 22gProtein: 2gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.4gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 0.4gTrans Fat: 0.003gCholesterol: 23mgSodium: 251mgPotassium: 113mgFiber: 1gSugar: 14gVitamin A: 59IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 37mgIron: 1mg
The nutritional information provided is based on third-party calculations and is an estimate only. Accurate nutritional facts will vary based on the particular brands used, portion sizes, measurement accuracy and more.
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