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Chocolate Zucchini Cake
By Thrive Life · 20 servings
1h 10m prep time
45m cook time
If there's a healthy chocolate cake out there, it's one with zucchini! You've got to try this! by Todd Leonard CEC
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Ingredients
- 1/2 c. Butter, softened
- 1 c. Oil
- 1 3/4 c. Cane Sugar
- 2 tsp. THRIVE vanilla powder
- 1/2 c. Buttermilk
- 4 tbsp. THRIVE Scrambled Egg Mix
- 1/4 c. Water to mix w/ eggs
- 2 1/2 c. White Flour (All Purpose Unbleached Flour)
- 1/2 tsp. Salt
- 1 tsp. Baking Soda
- 5 tbsp. Cocoa powder
- 1 tsp. Cinnamon
- 2 c. THRIVE Zucchini -FD - crushed into small pieces and reconstituted as directed on can
- 6 oz. Chocolate Chips
- 1 c. Chopped Pecans
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease and flour 9x13 pan. (or start coals if using Dutch oven. 26-28 coals will be needed).
- Cream together butter, oil, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs and water together. Mix well until blended. In separate bowl, add buttermilk to reconstituted eggs and mix well.
- Mix the egg/buttermilk mixture with the butter mixture until well blended together.
- Fold in the remaining ingredients except the pecans and chocolate chips. Mix well until combined.
- Pour into pan or in 12-inch dutch oven.
- Top with chocolate chips and pecans.
- Bake 45 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. If using Dutch oven, place 17-18 coals on top and 7-9 on bottom.