Zucchini Cake Recipe
Ingredients
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- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 salt
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1/3 cup oil (light olive oil, or other vegetable oil)
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup shredded zucchini
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Frosting:
- 3 oz. cream cheese
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350º
- Combine flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a small bowl. Mix well, and set aside.
- In a large bowl, whisk oil, sugar, eggs, and vanilla together.
- Stir in zucchini.
- Stir in flour mixture.
- Lastly, mix in pecans if using them.
- Pour into a greased and floured, or parchment paper-lined 8×8 baking pan.
- Bake in center of oven for 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Remove from oven and let rest ten minutes.
- Loosen cake from edges of pan with a butterknife, and turn onto a wire rack to finish cooling.
- When cake is cool, beat icing ingredients together, and spread over cake.
- Sprinkle with pecans if desired.
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