Zucchini Bikini--Chocolate Cake Sounds Better

Like Bill Cosby you can consider cake to be a nutritious start to the day because this one has a vegetable in it:

Chocolate Zucchini Cake

 Cream together:

¾ C.    oil

2 C.     sugar

3          eggs 

Add and mix:

2 tsp.    vanilla

½ C.    cocoa powder

1 T.      baking powder

1 ½ tsp. baking soda

1 tsp.    salt

1 tsp.    cinnamon

2 tsp.    orange zest (Option: a few drops of orange oil like for candy-making may be substituted.

½ C.    milk

2 C.     grated zucchini

2 ½ C. flour (Option: substitute 1 C. whole wheat flour for 1 C. white flour.)

Pour into greased and floured bundt pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 minutes.

 Chocolate Frosting

 4 ¾ C. powder sugar

½ C.    cocoa powder

½ C.    margarine or butter, softened

1/3 C.  boiling water

1 tsp.    vanilla

 

Mix powdered sugar and cocoa. Add margarine, boiling water, and vanilla.  Beat with mixer on low till combined.  Beat for 1 minute on medium speed.  Cool for about 20 minutes till spreading consistency.  Drizzle or spread over top and down sides of bundt.