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Here are the dry ingredients: flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon.
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Sift them together, twice.
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And the "wet" ingredients: sugar, eggs, oil, applesauce, and vanilla. I deviated from grandma's recipe here and cut the fat in half by using the applesauce I put up last Fall.
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You need zucchini too. I had my assistant shred 3 cups of zucchini (closely supervised, of course) in the food processor.
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Blend the wet ingredients, then add the dry ingredients and stir in the zucchini.
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Grease and flour a bundt cake pan.
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Pour the batter into the pan.
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Bake at 350 degrees for 60-90 minutes. Mine tested perfect at 60 minutes. Cool in the pan on a rack for 10-20 minutes.
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Invert the cake onto the cooling rack and finish cooling.
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Top with icing.
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I sprinkled mine with some finely chopped pecans. I don't use my bundt cake pan enough. Isn't this cake pretty?
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Here's my first taste of this cake with some of my beloved whipped cream and a nice, cold glass of milk. I didn't plan to eat the whole piece of cake, but I did. It was SO good!
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Grandma Shirley's Chocolate Zucchini Cake
3 cups flour
1/2 cups cocoa
1 1/2 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1 t. salt
1-2 t. cinnamon
3 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups oil or 3/4 cup oil, 3/4 cup applesauce
4 eggs
2 t. vanilla
3 cups shredded zucchini
1 cup finely chopped nuts (optional)
Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Sift twice. Combine sugar, oil, eggs, and vanilla. Mix well. Add flour mixture and beat until combined. Stir in zucchini and nuts. Pour into tube pan or bundt cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 60-90 minutes.
Icing:
1 c. powdered sugar, sift
2 t. melted butter
2-2 1/2 T. milk
1 t. vanillla
1 t. cinnamon
Combine ingredients and mix until smooth. Drizzle on cake. Sprinkle with chopped nuts, if desired.
4 comments:
Oh, boy does that look so nice and moist and chocolaty. Grandma's recipes are always special, I think. Love this! Thank you so much for sharing!
Boy, it IS pretty...very pretty! I've bookmarked this...I definitely want to try it! Sounds delish...love recipes that are somehow family-tied!
if you aren't using that bundt pan enough, Racheal Ray had a great tip. You are probably about to be up to your "ears" in corn like us. So take the cooked cob and put it in the center of the bundt pan and then slice the corn off. It falls into the pan w/out making a mess! I thought this was a great idea to use when feeding the kiddos or when you you go to freeze a bunch of corn.
I want the carmel puff corn!!! YUM :o) Glad you made it back.. Can't wait to hear all the details.
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