Recipe of the Week: Chocolate Zucchini or Carrot Cake

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The following recipe for Chocolate Zucchini or Carrot Cake is from SurvivalBlog reader Mrs. Alaska.

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl:

2.5 c flour

¼ c cocoa powder

1 tsp baking soda

½ tsp baking powder

1.5 c sugar or 1 ¼ c honey

 

Mix the following:

Mix ½ c milk with 1 tsp white vinegar and let it sit for 5 minutes to sour

OR ½ c plain yogurt or sour cream plus water at the end to saturate the batter, if needed.  (I routinely need to add ¼ – 1/3 cup additional water to saturate the batter when cooking with sugar but not with honey).

½ c melted butter or neutral oil

½ c coconut oil, melted (you could double the above oil, but the coconut confers a wonderful, light flavor)

2 large or 3 small eggs

2 tsp vanilla

2 + c grated zucchini or carrots

Combine dry and wet ingredients.  Pour into the pans.

Sprinkle with:

1 c chocolate chips

 

Directions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Lightly grease and flour 2 cake pans if you want the dessert thinner or 2 loaf pans if you want the dessert thicker and gooier in the middle.
  3. Bake for about 30 minutes but check at 25 by testing the center with a knife to determine how wet or dry the interior is.  I pull the cake pans out at 30 minutes and turn the oven off, leaving the loaf pans to cook a bit more in the cooling oven.

I do not add any frosting.  The chocolate chips suffice for this super moist cake.

CHEF’S NOTES: 

I routinely double and freeze this recipe after grating a big batch of zucchini or carrots.

You can shred and save zucchini and carrots in the freezer without blanching.  Recommendation:  Measure the number of cups of vegetable into a baggie or Tupperware for your preferred recipes this winter.  I flatten gallon-sized baggies of shredded or blanched frozen veggies, label the bags, and stack them neatly in one section of the freezer.

Bon appetit!

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Mrs. Alaska blogs at: https://alaskauu1.blogspot.com/

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