Zucchini Cake
Zucchini Cake

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, zucchini cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This zucchini cake recipe is from my grandmother–she used to pass the zucchini through a meat mincer because they had no food processor. The zucchini cake keeps well wrapped in aluminum foil in the refrigerator and can also be frozen. In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt.

Zucchini Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Zucchini Cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook zucchini cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Zucchini Cake:
  1. Make ready 2 cups flour
  2. Make ready 2 teaspoons mixed spice
  3. Make ready 2 teaspoons baking soda
  4. Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
  5. Get 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  6. Prepare 3 eggs
  7. Make ready 1.5 cups granulated sugar
  8. Take 1 cup vegetable oil
  9. Prepare 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  10. Make ready 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest (optional
  11. Take 2 cups grated un-peeled zucchini(courgette)
  12. Take 1/2 cup golden raisins (optional)

It's like a tender spice cake. You would never know there's zucchini in this cake if it wasn't for the green bits. I know some people aren't anxious to eat a cake with zucchini in it, but this is a must-try. (Don't worry if that's you, my husband is the same way!) Why add zucchini in a cake? With a unique twist on the favorite chocolate zucchini cake, this recipe adds an attractive swirl of cream cheese that will have everyone asking for more.

Instructions to make Zucchini Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 180degrees
  2. Prepare your baking tin by applying cake release on it (a mixture of flour, shortening and vegetable oil) to prevent the cake from sticking onto the pan
  3. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.These are the dry ingredients
  4. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs until they frothy, you can use an electric hand/ stand mixer
  5. Add the sugar, vegetable oil, vanilla and lemon zest and continue mixing
  6. Using a spatula fold in the flour 1/3 at a time.
  7. Add the zucchini and raisins and gently stir them into the flour mixture.Do not over handle the cake batter
  8. Bake for 45- 60 minutes or until your cake is baked

This cake can easily have other variations. I have made it without the cream cheese swirl/chips topping and have frosted the cake. Cream butter then add oil and sugar; mix. Fold in the chips and nuts by hand. My husband was very leary on trying a cake with Zucchini in it and it's all the rave.

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