Elaine's Chocolate Zucchini Cake

It's the time of year where zucchini comes on full bore.  For the first time in, well forever, we have no one to supply us with free zucchini.

 

It's normally overly abundant wherever it grows (see above), or grows at nasty huge rates (also see above), but we get none of that.  So I broke down and bought some to satisfy my zucchini craving.  It was cheap, but still not as cheap as free, so I had to make good use of what I did have.  One thing I made was this:

Elaine's Chocolate Zucchini Cake from the Chocolate Bytes Chocolate Lovers website

1/2 C butter or margarine, softened
1/2 C vegetable oil
1 1/3 C sugar
2 eggs
2 C grated zucchini
1/2 C sour milk
1 t vanilla
2 1/2 C flour
4 T cocoa
1 t salt
1 t baking powder
1 t baking soda

3/4 C mini chocolate chips
3/4 C walnuts
3/4 C brown sugar

Mix first 12 ingredients and pour into greased 9x13 pan.  Sprinkle with a topping of last three ingredients.  Bake at 350 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

It looked so stinking good when it came out of the oven, but I had to use extreme self-control to not eat it, because it was dessert for when the missionaries came.   I kept telling myself I could be rewarded by having an extra piece or two after the elders left, which worked.

When we finally got around to eating it we all liked it.  Apparently no one feeds the elders since we got sisters too, so all they eat is PB&J for every lunch and dinner. That might be why they like everything I feed them.  But I liked it okay as well.  I left out the nuts, but the brown sugar created a nice top that made it better. The hungry runner boy said it was, "eh, okay."