Chocolate Lover's Zucchini Cake
This deliciously moist and decadent chocolate zucchini cake is an incredibly scrumptious chocolate cake recipe with the best chocolate frosting. A chocolate lover's dream.
Servings: 12 Servings
Calories: 581kcal
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- ¾ cup vegetable oil
- 3 large eggs
- 2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- 2 ¼ cups grated zucchini
For Chocolate Frosting
- ½ cup butter, melted
- ⅔ cup cocoa powder
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- ⅓ cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Chocolate Lover’s Zucchini Cake
- Preheat oven to 325°.
- Grease and flour a Bundt pan.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix sugar, oil, and eggs together until creamy.
- Add in vanilla, and mix until well combined.
- In a smaller bowl, stir flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa, cinnamon, and salt together with a small whisk just to 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 bundt pan and bake for approximately 60 minutes.
- Cake will be done when tooth pick inserted comes out clean.
- *Check cake at 50-55 minutes
Chocolate Frosting
- In a medium size mixing bowl, add melted butter. Mix in cocoa.
- Next add in some powder sugar and then milk, then some powdered sugar then milk. Repeat until all is well mixed. Mix on low speed.
- After frosting is well blended, add in vanilla.
- Makes about 2 cups of frosting.
- Frost cake once cake has cooled.
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Notes
Nutritional values are approximate.
Please note that these values can change with different brands and any modifications made to the recipe. For the most accurate information, use a nutritional calculator with the exact brands and measurements.
Cake recipe mostly adapted from A Dash of Sanity
Frosting from Hershey’s Cocoa.Nutrition
Serving: 0g | Calories: 581kcal | Carbohydrates: 90g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 8g | Monounsaturated Fat: 6g | Cholesterol: 63mg | Sodium: 322mg | Potassium: 312mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 64g | Vitamin A: 371IU | Vitamin C: 4mg | Calcium: 72mg | Iron: 3mg