Chocolate-zuchini cake
This chocolate and zucchini cake is simply amazing. A moist chocolate explosion with every bite.
Ingredients
- ½ cup melted butter
- ½ cup unsweeted cocoa powder
- 1¼ cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 large egg yolk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups grated zucchini
- ⅔ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- flaky sea salt
- extra butter and cocoa powder
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F/175°C
- Sift the flour, the cocoa powder, the baking soda, the cinnamon and the salt into a bowl and mix well [Dry ingredients]
- In another bowl whisk the sugar, the egg and the egg yolk until creamy [Liquid ingredients]
- Add the melted butter and vanilla extract to the bowl with the liquid ingredients and mix in well. Mix the zucchini in well
- Gradually add the dry ingredients to the liquid ingredients and mix in well.
- Add the chocolate chips to the mix and stir in with a spoon or a fork
- Butter a cake pan and add a tbsp of cocoa powder. Shake the cocoa powder around the cake pan until its fully covered
- Pour the dough into the cake pan and bake it for 50min
- After the cake is baked let it cool for 10min on the counter. Then take it out of the form and sprinkle flaky sea salt on the cake