Original video by @PreppyKitchen — all credit to the creator.
Chocolate Zucchini Cake
A three-layer chocolate cake made impossibly moist and fudgy by sour cream, oil, and grated zucchini that melts right into the crumb. Finished with a rich chocolate buttercream built on a melted-chocolate base, it's a decadent celebration cake nobody guesses has vegetables in it.
Ingredients
For the cake
- 4 1/2 cupszucchini · freshly grated
- —sour cream
- —oil
For the chocolate buttercream
- —chocolate · melted, for the ganache base
- —butter
Steps
- 1
Grate the zucchini fresh and fold it into the chocolate cake batter along with the sour cream and oil.
- 2
Divide the batter between three cake pans and bake until set.
- 3
Melt the chocolate and use it as the base for the chocolate buttercream.
- 4
Stack and frost the cooled layers with the chocolate buttercream.
Creator's notes
The zucchini doesn't read as a vegetable at all — it just adds moisture, and with the chocolate it turns the cake fudgy. Full measurements at https://preppykitchen.com/chocolate-zucchini-cake/
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