How to Make a Chocolate Zucchini Cake The Easy Way

If you are looking for the PERFECT chocolate zucchini cake made from scratch that is easy to make. Then this chocolate zucchini cake is defintiely worth giving a try. This chocolate zucchini cake is made with very ordinary ingredients but makes the most irresistible chooclate zuchinni cake!

This chocolate zucchini cake is literally DELICIOUS! I was first introduced to it by my husband while we were dating. He and his family often talked about his grandma Ida and the yummy foods she would make. One of those foods he would talk about is this chocolate zucchini cake.

And although my husband has a pretty BIG sweet tooth, he wouldn’t neccessarily claim cake as one of his favorite desserts. But this chocolate zucchini cake is a whole different story. Because this cake is mouth watering!

He reminsiced that she would often make a cream cheese frosting to top of the cake and also have a container on the side available as needed! Well I decided this would be a great cake to make him for his birthday! I never imagined that it would become such a family FAVORITE for all of us!

So if you have been looking for a recipe for a AMAZING cake from scratch that includes zucchini, here you go! It is really super simple to make. But I promise you once you make it once, you will want to make it again and again!

And since today is World Chocolate Day! We celebrated by making this YUMMY cholocate zucchini cake!

So let’s get started!

Here’s the ingredients to make a chocolate zucchini cake:

Wet Ingredients for chocolate zucchini cake:

• 1/2 c butter
• 1/2 c oil
• 2 c grated zucchini
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3/4 c chocolate chips
• 3/4 tsp cinnamon (optional)

Dry Ingredients for chocolate zucchini cake:

• 2 1/2 c flour
• 1/4 c cocoa
• 1 tsp soda
• 1 tsp salt

Here’s how to make the chocolate zucchini cake:

Step 1: Mix the wet ingredients for your chocolate zucchini cake

We are going to keep the directions in making this delicious zucchini cake super simple! Why? Because it doesn’t need to be complicated to make this delicious cake!

Start by creaming the butter, oil and sugar together. Mix them together so you have a nice smooth mixture. Once you have a smooth creamy mixture add in your eggs and vanilla. Mix the eggs until the mixture is smooth again. I usually mix all this cake by hand with a spatula, you can use an electric mixer as well.

Now take your zucchini and shred it with a cheese grater (I use a box kind that stands on its own) into small shredded pieces. Measure out two cups of the zucchini and add it to your wet ingredients mixture. Then set aside.

Step 2: Blend your dry chocolate zucchini cake ingredients:

Now in a seperate bowl blend the flour, cocoa, soda and salt. Add in the cinnnamon if you like cinnamon. One of my daughters is not a cinnamon fan so I do not add this to our cake and it is still delicious! Make sure there are no soda clumps and that the ingredients are well blended.

Step 3: Add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately

Now going back to your wet ingredient cake mixture add in the dry ingedients and buttermilk alternately. Mix the batter until it is smooth.

Step 4: Bake your chocolate zucchini cake

Grease a 9″x13″ pan or 2- 9″ circle pans. Fold your chocolate zucchini cake batter evenly into the pan(s). I usually shake my pan to ensure the cake is even in the pan.

Then sprinkle the chocolate zucchini cake with chocolate chips. I usually just take a measuring cup and sprinkle them on the batter.

Now bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes. Using a knife check poke it into the center of the cake, if it comes out clean it is done. If not continue to cook the cake for 5 minutes at a time until the knife comes out clean (obviously the melted chocolate on the top of the cake make show up on your knife you just don’t want batter on the knife).

Step 5: Frost your chocolate zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting

Ingredients for cream cheese frosting:

• 4 oz cream cheese
• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 1/4 c butter (room temperature)
• 1 tsp vanilla or almond extract (depending on your prefence even love the almond!)
• 1-2 TBSP milk

Start by blending the butter and powdered sugar until smooth. Then blend in all the remaining ingredients until smooth. If your frosting is too thick add small amounts of milk by 1 tsp each. If your frosting seems to thin add in powdered sugar by the tbsp until you have the right consistency.

Here comes the yummy part! Once the cake has cooled completely frost your cake!

This cake is absolutely perfectly matched with a cream cheese frosting! The sweetness of the cream cheese frosting blends so nicely with the zucchini cake, which is not super sweet. It ends up being just a really satisfying delicious taste!

If you try it please let me know below! I hope you enjoy this chocolate zucchini cake as much as we do and that it might even be a go-to recipe for your family!

Take care and God bless!