Ingredients

  • 2 12 cups regular all-purpose flour, unsifted
  • 12 cup cocoa
  • 2 12 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 12 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 34 cup soft butter
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
  • 2 cups coarsely shredded zucchini
  • 12 cup milk
  • 1 cup chopped walnuts or 1 cup pecans

Method

  • Preheat the oven to 350F.
  • Combine the four, cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt, and cinnamon; set aside.
  • With a mixer, beat together the butter and the sugar until they are smoothly blended.
  • Add the eggs to the butter and sugar mixture one at a time, beating well after each addition.
  • With a spoon, stir in the vanilla, orange peel, and zucchini.
  • Alternately stir the dry ingredients and the milk into the zucchini mixture, including the nuts with the last addition.
  • Pour the batter into a greased and flour-dusted 10-inch tube pan or bundt pan.
  • Bake in the oven for about 50 minutes (test at 45 minutes!)
  • or until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
  • Cool in pan 15 minutes; turn out on wire rack to cool thoroughly.
  • Drizzle glaze over cake.