Zucchini Chocolate Cake

1/2 c. butter or margarine               2-1/2 c. flour

1/2 c. Vegetable Oil                     1/2 tsp. baking powder

1-1/2 c. sugar                            1 tsp. baking soda

2 eggs                                    1 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. vanilla                            1/2 tsp. salt


1/2 c. sour milk*                         1 pkg. (6 oz.) chocolate chips

1/4 c. cocoa

2 c. grated zucchini (unpeeled)


Cream margarine, oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla. Add sour milk, cocoa, zucchini, and blend. Sift dry ingredients together and add to batter. Add chocolate chips either

to batter, or sprinkle on top of batter before baking. Bake., in 9x13" baking pan, well-greased, at 325 deg. for about 45 minutes. Serve either frosted or unfrosted.


     * To make sour milk use 1 Tbs vinegar to 1 cup milk.


Kenn and Esther Johnson 1978

Washington State Historical Society

Tacoma, Washington