Chocolate zucchini cake may be the only way I’ll eat something green for dessert.
Oh hi!!
I’m here with another sheet cake. This one has vegetables! Does that mean we can eat it for dinner? Maybe pretend it’s good for us?
Yes let’s try.
So! I’ve done wacky things with zucchini before. This whole wheat zucchini snack cake is excellent! It’s different from this in that it’s not quite as rich, though the topping could give this a run for its money.
A few years ago I did make chocolate fudge zucchini cupcakes with avocado fudge frosting. Those are deeeelish. Unbeatable!
This is kind of like that, but made in cake form.
And with, OF COURSE, cream cheese frosting. Yes, it’s the only frosting I deem worthy of eating at the moment. It’s just so darn good. You could also use mascarpone in its place. I’m making it with mascarpone on instagram stories today – go take a peek!
Can you believe I didn’t really care for zucchini bread (or anything like that) when I was a kid? In my defense, it wasn’t because of the vegetable – it was because of the nuts. Pretty much all zucchini breads I was served as a child had nuts in them. And I am a strict no-nuts in desserts type of person.
Okay, that has changed slightly. I mean, I just showed you a dessert with nuts on top. But still! You know what I mean. I don’t really want nuts in my classic cookies or brownies and certainly not my quick breads. No thank you.
Eventually I did come around. I was served theeeee absolute best slice of zucchini bread and it just flipped a switch. Now I love making all the things with zucchini, be it sweet or savory. Especially come August and September when gardens are overflowing. I personally don’t grow zucchini, but I’m lucky enough to be given a bunch to put to good use.
This is the perfect weekend cake! Make it today and snack on it for the next few days. It stays tender and moist from the zucchini, but we are also cake-in-the-fridge people so you can store it in there too.
Mix it up mostly in one bowl, bake and make your frosting, then cover with chocolate shavings or sprinkles or something to fancy it up.
Then grab a fork!
Look at the crumb!
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