Gray areas and zucchini
Last weekend Grey and I got into the car and drove into town JUST to buy a fast-food meal from a burger stand.
Yesterday I actually paid MONEY for zucchini, compounding it. I feel so...dirty.
(We did plant zucchini but harvested not a single squash.)
I wanted the aforementioned squash for this recipe:
CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
2 cups shredded zucchini
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup nuts
Cream together sugar, oil and butter. Add eggs, buttermilk and vanilla; mix well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves; gradually add to oil mixtue. Stir in zucchini, chocolate chips and almonds. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 325 for 55-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn onto wire rack.
...I should add that "shredded" means the standard holes on a grater: neither fine like parmesan nor the big dime-sized holes you use for hashbrowns.
Yesterday I actually paid MONEY for zucchini, compounding it. I feel so...dirty.
(We did plant zucchini but harvested not a single squash.)
I wanted the aforementioned squash for this recipe:
CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup butter, softened
2 eggs
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/4 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon cloves
2 cups shredded zucchini
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup nuts
Cream together sugar, oil and butter. Add eggs, buttermilk and vanilla; mix well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and cloves; gradually add to oil mixtue. Stir in zucchini, chocolate chips and almonds. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan. Bake at 325 for 55-60 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes, then turn onto wire rack.
...I should add that "shredded" means the standard holes on a grater: neither fine like parmesan nor the big dime-sized holes you use for hashbrowns.