caterina cacciatore

i am making Eat Art for the Art Walk tonight / this zucchini cake is one of my favorites

preheat oven 350 degrees

2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1 and 1/2 cups sugar

mix all the dry ingredients together

in another bowl whisk together

2 eggs
1/3 cup orange juice
1/2 cup vegetable oil
2 tsps orange zest
2 tsps peeled and grated fresh ginger
1 tsp vanilla extract

add the wet ingredients to the dry

the fold in 1 and 1/2 cups of grated zucchini
and 1/2 cup of chopped hazlenuts

have a tube or bundt pan buttered and flowered

bake for 45 minutes or until tester comes out not gooey

cool on rack for ten minutes before turning out onto a serving plate

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okay, here's how i changed this recipe today :

i used spelt flour instead of the usualy unbleached organic flour
bc spelt tends to be dry i added 3 eggs instead of 2

reduced sugar to 1 cup (dont like it too sweet)

pecans instead of hazlenuts

it is out of the oven now / to see if it will exit the pan nicely

hmmmmmmm

fooey / it stuck in the pan but o boy is it ever good moist and delicious / perhaps the 3rd egg was 1 egg too many

patch it together and smear some cream on top tonight