Chocolate Zucchini Cake

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Happy belated Sneak a Zucchini onto your Neighbour's Porch Day! I encourage everyone to post recipes for using up zucchini. This is a slight reworking of a recipe I posted in 2005 (!).

Chocolate Zucchini Cake. This cake is so delicious and moist. It is also somewhat crumbly and hard to get out of the pan, probably because I always cook it using a gluten-free flour (pure rice flour.) If I used a better blend, it would probably be better.

If you are using chocolate chips, they have a strong tendency to sink to the bottom of the pan. I use chocolate chips every time despite this.

Preheat oven to 350 ° F

Mix:

• 3/4 cup of oil
• 2 t vanilla
• 1/4 c water
• 2 c sugar
• 3 eggs
• 2 c grated zucchini

Sift in, mix:

• 1/2 c cocoa powder
• 2 t baking powder
• 1.5 t baking soda
• 2.5 c flour
• 1/2 t salt.

Pour into a bundt pan, or two loaf pans. If desired, sprinkle across the top

• 1 C chocolate chips

Cook for 50 minutes to an hour