Our garden has started to produce zucchini...lots of them. I sauteed the first one we picked with other veggies and E declared it, "A waste of a perfectly good garden vegetable." He thinks that all zucchini should be turned into bread, or muffins, or cake. Heaven forbid we actually eat our veggies like veggies.
So in an effort not to "waste" anymore zucchini I have turned out a few loaves of yummy bread, and in the meantime discovered a fabulous secret. If you add 1/3 cup of cocoa to your bread recipe suddenly you have a chocolate zucchini bread that tastes suspiciously similar to chocolate cake. And you still slice it so you can eat it for breakfast on account of this technicality. Mmmmm....
Note to the cooks out there: I have a sneaking suspicion that if you heated the oil and then mixed in the cocoa (like mole) you would release the cocoa flavor and end up with a richer cake. Somebody needs to try it!
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