Lightened-Up Chocolate Zucchini Cake (W/ or W/Out Frosting)
- Ready In:
- 1hr 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 20
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 354.88 ml all-purpose flour
- 236.59 ml whole wheat flour
- 29.58 ml cocoa
- 14.79 ml cinnamon
- 4.92 ml baking powder
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 2.46 ml salt
- 473.18 ml packed shredded zucchini (Skin and all)
- 59.14 ml butter
- 59.14 ml vegetable oil
- 118.29 ml applesauce
- 236.59 ml sugar
- 29.58 ml cornstarch
- 29.58 ml nonfat dry milk powder
- 4 large egg whites, from large eggs
- 4.92 ml vanilla
- 236.59 ml dried tart cherry
-
frosting
- 226.79 g fat free cream cheese, softened
- 118.29 ml pineapple preserves
- 118.29 ml coconut
directions
- Preheat oven 350 degrees.
- Sift and then mix all dry ingredients in a food processor with metal blade set aside.
- In the food processor add butter, oil and sugar mix till creamy.
- While machine is running, add applesauce through vanilla by way of the feed tube.
- Add zucchini.
- Add flour mixture.
- Add cherries and pulse to mix.
- Bake in a greased and floured bundt pan for 50-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into cake comes out clean.
- In the food processor mix cheese and jam. Spread on cooled cake.
- Press coconut into frosting of cake.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Marcy C.
Phoenix, AZ
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