1/2 cup cocoa
2-1/2 t baking powder
1-1/2 t soda
1 t each salt, cinnamon
3/4 cup soft butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 t each vanilla, grated orange peel
2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
1/2 cup milk
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon. Set aside. With a rotary mixer beat together the butter and sugar until they are smoothly blended. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini. Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into zucchini mixture, including the nuts with the last addition. Pour into a greased and floured 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan. Bake in 350 oven for about 1 hour or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pan 15 minutes. Turn out n wire rack to cool thoroughly. Drizzle glaze over cake. Cut in thin slices to serve. Makes 10 to 12 servings.
Glaze: Mix together 2 cups powdered sugar, 3 T milk and 1 t vanilla. Beat until smooth.
Good also with cream cheese frosting.
Well, it's kind of weird thinking about taking a great thing like chocolate and then mixing it with zucchini! It kind of fell apart after I cooled it and turned it out onto a wire rack, but I pieced it together and glazed it. It was all right, not super great. I think I'd rather blend zucchini in a bread rather than in this cake. It just added a strange taste to the cake.
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