I'm afraid the flower pics will have to wait until next time, as I'm currently swamped with the green wonder vegetable - zucchini. This weekend I made 4 loaves of zucchini (2 different recipes) bread, zucchini chocolate cake (a bit dry, but rich), and fried zucchini cakes (a bit too garlicky even for me). I'm going to try making the chocolate cake again without pouring off any of the juice from grating the zucchini.I liked both bread recipes, but they were very different. One was more like a banana bread and the kids seemed to like it better - it was gone so fast I didn't get any pictures. It was also a little better for you because it had applesauce.
Zucchini Bread
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 c oil
2 c grated, peeled zucchini
1/2 c applesauce
1 tsp salt
2 c sugar
3 c flour
Mix altogether and pour into two greased and floured pans. Optional: sprinkle tops with semi-sweet mini chocolate chips. Bake at 325 for one hour. Great with a little butter.
As for the cake, I'll post the recipe after further tweaking - it's just too dense and dry. That didn't stop Ellie from trying to get her share. A little shout out - does anyone have a frosting recipe they like? I'm not one for frosting-in-a-can. Actually, I don't really like frosting, but if I'm going to eat it it's got to be made fresh. Stop by The Lazy Organizer's new bloggy house for more TAT.
