Favorite Zucchini Recipes?

Posted on 2006-Jul-27 at 02:18 PM

I confess I've never grown zucchini, although we are occasionally given some.  We were given 3 last week, and they shredded up to make 15 cups of shredded zucchini ... most of which I froze.

Yesterday  I made chocolate zucchini bread.  And I have a  zucchini  brownie recipe I want to try.  But what I really want is to find a devil's food cake recipe using zucchini.  I remember eating a really rich dark chocolate  zucchini cake at church potlucks as a teen in Maryland.  I loved it!!  The best I can think to describe it as is Zucchini Devil's Food Cake.  Does anyone have a recipe like that?

Here are the two recipes I have, but I'd love to try others.  Please share if you have a favorite.

Chocolate Zucchini or Pumpkin Bread

3 cups shredded zucchini  OR 1 can (15 oz) pumpkin
1 2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 tsp. vanilla
4 eggs
3 cups all-purpose flour OR whole wheat flour
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 cup cocoa
optional 1/2 cup chopped nuts or chocolate chips

Heat oven to 350* and grease bottoms only of 2 loaf pans.  Mix zucchini/pumpkin, sugar, oil, vanilla and eggs together.  Stir in remaining ingredients.  Pour into pans.  Bake 50-60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.  Cool 10 minutes. Loosen sides of loaves, remove from pans.  Cool completely before slicing.  Wrap tightly and store at room temperature up to 4 days, or refrigerate up to 10 days.


Chocolate Zucchini Brownies

2 cups grated zucchini
1 1/2 cups sugar
2  cups flour
1 tsp. salt
1.5 tsp. baking soda
1/3-1/2 cup cocoa
1/2 cup oil
2 tsp. vanilla
1/2-3/4 cup chopped nuts or chocolate chips (optional)

Preheat oven to 350*.  Mix all ingredients together and  pour into a greased 9x13 pan.  Bake 30-35 minutes.

What's your favorite zucchini recipe?  If you share it on your blog, please leave a comment here so I can see all the yummy recipes.