Zucchini cake is on the menu today. I did a little experiment with Mom’s Gooey Chocolate Zucchini Brownies recipe. It wasn’t entirely successful, but it was a good start overall. I went with the cake version, which adds two eggs to the brownie version, and tried it out on the CAKE cycle of my bread machine.
What I love about baking cake in the bread machine is that I can throw the ingredients in (along with my little helpers, Bug and Goose) and walk away. Come back 2 hours later and I have cake! It’s a great way to bake cakes with young kids, even though the process is a little longer than baking a traditional cake.
I knocked the sugar down a bit too much (to 1 cup for sugar instead of the 1 1/2 cups originally in the recipe, or 3/4 cups of honey). So the cake turned out a bit less sweet than we’d usually like it. We topped ours with maple syrup and it was perfect! But, I think with 1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups of honey granules/sugar it’d be perfect on its own! It’s definitely super chocolatey and filled with deliciously nutritious zucchini!
Bread Machine Zucchini Cake
Ingredients
2 cups shredded zucchini
2 eggs
2 cups flour (I use gluten-free)
1 1/4 to 1 1/2 cups honey granules or sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 cup coconut oil, melted
2 teaspoons vanilla
Method
Place all ingredients in the bread machine and run on the CAKE cycle.
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I made the cake version of mom's gooey zucchini brownies, which adds two eggs to the brownie version, and tried it out on the cycle for bread machine cake.
Bread Machine Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Ingredients
Instructions