Gross? Never. I swear on all good beer that this is good cake. Think carrot cake--it doesn't *taste* like vegetable. It takes like sweet, sweet sugar and chocolate temptation. This recipe is from the P-Patch Cookbook put out by the p-patch/allottment people in Seattle. I always tweak it, but it's alway tasty.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups flour
cup cocoa
2-1/2 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp vanilla cup milk
3 cups grated zucchini
1 tbsp grated orange zest
1 cup chopped nuts
Orange Glaze
1-1/4 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
cup fresh orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon together and set aide. In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla and milk to the butter mixture. Stir in the dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Fold in the zucchini, orange zest, and nuts. Pour into a greased and floured bundt cake pan. Bake 50 to 60 minutes. Allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes before turning out onto a rack.
To make the glaze, sift the sugar first, then dribble in the juice and vanilla, whisking the while. As the cake is cooling, drizzle with the glaze. Garnish with flowers or mint sprigs.
Serves 10 to 12
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups flour
cup cocoa
2-1/2 tsp baking powder
1-1/2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp ground cinnamon
cup butter
2 cups sugar
3 eggs, lightly beaten
2 tsp vanilla cup milk
3 cups grated zucchini
1 tbsp grated orange zest
1 cup chopped nuts
Orange Glaze
1-1/4 cups sifted confectioner's sugar
cup fresh orange juice
1 tsp vanilla
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon together and set aide. In a bowl, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the eggs, vanilla and milk to the butter mixture. Stir in the dry ingredients and mix until well blended. Fold in the zucchini, orange zest, and nuts. Pour into a greased and floured bundt cake pan. Bake 50 to 60 minutes. Allow the cake to cool for 15 minutes before turning out onto a rack.
To make the glaze, sift the sugar first, then dribble in the juice and vanilla, whisking the while. As the cake is cooling, drizzle with the glaze. Garnish with flowers or mint sprigs.
Serves 10 to 12
I don't remember any orange glaze though.
And I did have cake, though it was ice cream cake.
I guess I have different categories of friendship. But when it comes to thinking of 'true' friends, I get very strict. I have other friends - friends on committees. But it's more of a friendly chit-chat, how's the family, kind of thing. It's not close on a really emotional level. Yes, I guess some of those people are friends in the eyes of most people. I can see that. And maybe what I consider to be friends are people that others would single out as best friends. I dunno.
I guess I've generally never had many friends by whatever definition you use, so maybe that's why I look at friends more intimately than most. Now that I'm getting to know more people, my view of who's a friend is actually widening.
No, this isn't MySpace thankfully, so you don't have to add everybody in sight as a friend. But that doesn't mean you have to go to the other extreme and add no one. I'm still trying to figure that part out with you.