Chocolate Zucchini Bread (cake)

Total Time: 1 hr 25 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 4 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups oil
• 3 cups sugar
• 3 cups grated zucchini
• 2 (1 ounce) unsweetened chocolate squares, melted
• 3 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 cup chopped nuts

Recipe

• 1 beat together until light in color eggs, oil and sugar. stir in zucchini and cooled melted chocolate; mix well.
• 2 stir together flour, salt, baking powder, soda and cinnamon; set aside 1/4 cup.
• 3 add remaining flour to egg mixture, mixing just to blend.
• 4 toss nuts with the 1/4 cup flour mixture; add to egg mixture and blend well.
• 5 spoon into a well-greased and floured tube or bundt pan, or two 9 by 5-inch loaf pans.
• 6 bake at 350 degrees f until cake tests done when a pick is inserted in the center and comes out clean (45-50 minutes for loaves, or about 1 hour for the tube cake).
• 7 cool in pan, then turn out onto a rack to finish cooling. wrap cake in plastic wrap until the next day. note: cake is best served the day after baking.