CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE
If you adore chocolate and are looking for an idea for something new, delicious and chocolate, this cake is just an incredible discovery... It is so juicy, dank and chocolate-licious?.
Servings 12 pieces
Ingredients
- 250 g full grain flour
- 30 g cocoa powder
- 1 tea spoon baking powder
- 170 g brown sugar
- 170 g soft butter
- 100 ml Milk
- 2 egg
- 2 table spoon hazelnut liqueur or other
- 100 g Dark chocolate
- 200 g zucchini grated in larger pieces
For the frosting
- 70 g chocolate of your choice
- 20 g Butter
- 50 ml heavy cream
For Decoration
- 50 g roasted hazelnuts or other nuts
Instructions
- Finely chop the dark chocolate or grate it in large pieces. Grate the zucchini and leave it aside. Then heat up the oven at 175°C with ventilator or at around 190°C without ventilator.
- Mix the flour, the cocoa and the baking powder in a large bowl.
- In a separate bowl beat up the butter with the sugar and then add the eggs one by one. Add the milk and the liqueur. You can use liqueur with a favourite aroma of hazelnut, almond or just pure rum.
- Mix the egg mixture with the flour and stir well. Then add the zucchini and the dark chocolate and stir again.
- Put some oil or spread butter into a rectangular cake pan and sprinkle some cocoa at the bottom. Then put the batter into the cake tin and bake for like 60 minutes. If you check whether the cake is ready by inserting skewer or a toothpick, keep in mind that the cake has to remain a little and to remain juicy.
- After you take the cake out of the oven let it cool down completely. Melt the ingredients for the frosting in a water bath, pour it evenly on the cake and decorate with pieces of nuts.