Chocolate Orange Zucchini Cake with Orange Fudge Frosting and Joy List Monday

Chocolate Orange Zucchini Cake with Orange Fudge Frosting

Recipe by: Carla TePaske

 

1/2 cup of butter, softened

2 cups sugar

3 eggs

1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup of orange juice

1/2 cup of whole milk

3 Tablespoons oil

9 Tablespoons baking cocoa

2 1/2 cups flour

2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 cups of shredded zucchini

 

Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add eggs, vanilla and orange juice, beat well after each addition. Add in milk, oil and baking cocoa.
Add flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. 
Gently fold in zucchini.

Prepare bunt pan ... grease well.
Spread batter in the prepared bunt pan.
Bake at 350 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes.

 

Frosting

2 3/4 cups powdered sugar

6 Tablespoons butter

6 Tablespoons baking cocoa

1/4 cup of milk

1/2  tablespoon of orange juice

Beat powdered sugar, butter, cocoa, milk and orange juice. 

Spread frosting over cooled cake.

Enjoy!

Joy List Monday

♥ a weekly ritual ♥

a reminder to stop and pay attention to the little beauties and graces that make life magical and to set aside time for gratitude each day

♥ Enjoying a new zucchini  cake recipe 

 ♥ Cooler temps.  =  snuggle time with my husband

♥ Continued garden harvest, still eating fresh cucumbers, beans, tomatoes and eggplant

 ♥ Evening walks with my husband

 ♥ Finding Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars eating on milkweed