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A Cake Recipe With Chocolate and Zucchini (Courgette)

Thursday 21 May 2009

This is a tasty and unusual cake recipe, that the whole family will enjoy.

An Unusual Cake Recipe With Zucchini and Chocolate

Ingredients:

Half C. to One cup chocolate chips
3 courgettes, about 6″ long, cut into shreds (approximately two cps)
1 tsp cinnamon spice
two half a cup plain white flour
3 fresh eggs
0.5 Cup unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla flavour
0.5 Cup ordinary sugar
1 cupful brown sugar
A half cup of canola oil
Half C. buttermilk
four Tablespoons cocoa
One tsp salt
2 t. cooking soda

Instructions:

In advance, set your oven so it preheats to 325 Farenheit.

Grease a 9″ x 13″ cake tin and place to the side.

In a large mixing bowl,mix both the sugars, butter and oil.
Add eggs, the buttermilk and the vanilla and mix thoroughly.

With a sifter or sieve, sieve the cocoa, flour, baking soda, cinnamon and salt to make one.

Add the powder mix to the wet mix and stir well

Stir in courgette and stir well.

Pour it all into the cake tin and spinkle the top with chocolate chips.

Put into the oven and cook for 45 mins.

Allow it to cool a little, then turn out on wire rack.

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