Description
This dark chocolaty loaf was a favorite at our bakery. With its rich flavor of spices and tenderness from loads of shredded zucchini, it’s completely irresistible. If you find yourself with a bumper crop of zucchini in your garden, run to the kitchen and bake yourself up a loaf pronto!
Ingredients
- 2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Dutch process cocoa powder
- 4 tablespoons soy flour (level tablespoons)
- 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp ground allspice
- Scant 1/4 tsp fine sea salt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 3 cups grated zucchini (320 grams)
- 3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Grease a 9 by 5-inch metal loaf pan well with pan release or shortening. If desired, you can line your pan with greased parchment paper too.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, soy flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt. Whisk until everything is well combined.
- In a large bowl, whisk or stir together the granulated sugar, oil, brown sugar and applesauce until smooth and emulsified.
- Add part of the flour mixture whisking or stirring well.
- Add the zucchini and stir until combined.
- Add the rest of the flour mixture, stirring just until combined and smooth.
- Stir in the chocolate chips.
- Scoop batter into prepared pan and bake in preheated oven for about 1 hour 10 minutes to 1 hour 20 minutes, or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean and top of cake springs back when touched.
- Note: Check your cake at the 1 hour point. The baking time will really depend on your oven. It turns out that I was having some oven issues, so mine may have taken slightly longer to bake.
- Remove cake from oven to a rack to cool for 10 minutes. Carefully remove cake from pan and let cool completely on rack.
Notes
Tip: Although this cake is good the day that it is made, it’s even better the next day after being wrapped in an airtight bag overnight.