Zucchini, Chocolate and Rum Cake
Very moist zucchini cake with a nice aroma of rum. The cake has little surprises of chocolate and walnuts spread throughout it.
Ingredients
Serves: 16
- 175g butter, softened
- 2 cups (440g) white sugar
- 3 eggs
- 2 cups grated zucchini
- 1/3 cup (80ml) rum
- 2 1/2 cups (310g) plain flour
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup dark chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup (60g) cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
- 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 cup (65ml) milk
- Rum Glaze
- 1 2/3 cups (185g) icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons rum
Directions
Preparation:30min ›
Cook:1hour ›
Ready in:1hour30min
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour a 25cm ring tin.
- In a large bowl cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time mixing well with each addition. Stir in zucchini and 1/3 cup rum.
- In a separate bowl mix flour with nuts, chocolate, cocoa, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt and cinnamon. Stir flour mixture and milk into egg mixture until well blended.
- Spread batter into ring tin. Bake for 50 to 55 minutes or until a skewer inserted into centre of cake comes out clean.
- Let cake cool in tin for 15 minutes then invert onto wire rack and cool completely. Drizzle with rum glaze.
- Rum Glaze: In a medium bowl combine icing sugar with 3 tablespoons rum. Mix until smooth. Spread on the cake.
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Reviews and Ratings
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Reviews in English (27)
This cake is very tasty and stays moist without having a heap of butter. I didn't use the walnuts as my husband is allergic but still tastes great. First time I made this I used choc buttons but they were too heavy and sank to the bottom. I then used choc chips but they just disappeared in the cake. Finally I used choc drops and they were best. I quite like the rum icing but cake is also nice without it or just plain icing. - 18 Apr 2015
We all loved this. I used 1/2 c rum in the cake because of the other reviews that said you could not taste it with the 1/3. We enjoyed it. I thought the glaze was going to be too strong when I first made it but it mellowed nicely overnight. - 15 Sep 2008 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
The zucchini does make this a very moist cake. It is very tasty as chocolate cakes go. The rum in the cake itself is pretty much undetectible, but in the glaze it is overpowering. Next time I would skip the glaze and just dust with powdered sugar. - 05 Jan 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)