I love Chocolate. Like, REALLY LOVE CHOCOLATE. My grandmother had a magnetic notepad on her fridge that said, If there is no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going. My thought is that there HAS TO BE chocolate in Heaven…it’s Heaven! Anyways…at the end of summer I see an insane number of recipes floating around for zucchini and this year decided to figure out a chocolate one.
I like zucchini…however my standard uses for it are zucchini bread, stir-fry, and a sausage bake. This year I decided to try something a bit different. I looked around on Pinterest {there are a plethora of zucchini recipes on their} found a few that piqued my interest and went to town playing with them and making something delectable.
Voila!
The problem with this cake is that I’ve had to make it at least 3 or 4 times before I actually had a piece sitting there for me to photograph. It’s that good. If you like moist, dense, fudge like cake/brownies this is the one for you. Seriously.
Ingredients:
Brownie Cake
1/2 Cup Butter
1 1/2 Cups Sugar
2 tsps Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Flour
1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder
1 1/2 tsps Baking Soda
1 tsp Salt
2 Cups Shredded Zucchini {about 10 ounces or so}
2 or 3 Tbsp of water
Frosting
1/3 Cup Butter
1 Cup Chocolate Chips
2 or 3 Tbsp Milk
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350* F and grease a 9×13” pan
2. Cream together butter, sugar and vanilla
3. Add in flour, cocoa Powder, baking soda, and salt {it will be VERY dry and powdery—see picture above}
4. Fold in shredded zucchini….you want it moist, so don’t wring it out or try to remove the water from the zucchini. The batter will have the consistency of a stiff cookie dough. If you need to add a bit of water, do, just not too much.
5. Bake for 20 minutes. The beauty of this cake is that there is no eggs, so you can under-bake it without worrying about that.
The ENTIRE KEY OF THIS CAKE IS TO NOT OVERBAKE!
For the frosting:
Over low heat stir together butter and chocolate chips until melted and smooth, add in in milk. Pour over cake after cake has cooled ever so slightly, spread over entire top. 
Enjoy!
