Eggless Chocolate Zucchini Cake
Prep time: 15 Mins
Cook time: 50 Mins + 20 Mins Cooling
Yields: 8 Inch OR 9 Inch Cake
2 cups Whole Wheat Pastry Flour
1/2 cup Cocoa Powder
1 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1/4 cup Canola Oil
1/4 cup Unsweetened Applesauce
1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
1/2 cup Light Brown Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
1 teaspoon Instant Coffee Powder
4 and 1/2 teaspoons Ener-G egg replacer, in place of 3 eggs
6 tablespoons Water
1/4 cup Milk (I used soy milk)
2 cups Grated Zucchini
1/2 cup Mini Chocolate Chips
Ingredients For Topping:
3 tablespoons Light Brown Sugar
1/2 cup Toasted & Chopped Pistachios
Procedure:
Preheat oven to 360F/180c for 15 minutes.
Grease and flour a 9 inch spring-form pan. You can use cocoa instead of
flour.
In a large mixing bowl sift together the flour,cocoa, baking soda, baking
powder and salt.
In a small blender/processor blend together the Ener-G and water until it’s
nice and fluffy like beaten eggs. I used my Magic Bullet blender. I pulsed
it a couple of times.
In a medium bowl add oil, applesauce, sugars, vanilla extract and coffee
powder. Using a hand mixer beat the mixture in medium speed for 3-5 minutes.
Add the egg replacer liquid in 3 additions beating it after every addition.
Now also add the milk and beat until well combined.
Reserving half a cup of the flour mixture, add slowly the remaining flour to
the wet ingredients, while beating it in low speed. Combine well the grated
zucchini, chocolate chips and 1/2 cup of flour. Add this to the batter and
mix it well. Note that the batter is thick at this stage. So don’t worry.
Pour the batter in the prepared cake pan and smooth it out using a spatula.
While using a spring-form pan it’s advisable to place the pan on a baking
sheet, so that the batter or baked cake does not fall down if the pan is not
locked properly.
Prepare the topping by mixing the brown sugar and pistachios. Sprinkle this
mixture evenly on the batter. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes. Mine was done in 45
minutes.
My Notes:
The key in using Ener-G is processing it with the water in a blender until
it’s nice and fluffy. Simply whisking it with a fork does not give desirable
results. If you pour this immediately in a liquid measuring cup, you will
see that it measures exactly 3/4 th of a cup, which is perfect because we
usually replace every egg with 1/4 cup of any egg substitute. But by the
time I was ready to add this mixture to the rest of the wet ingredients, I
saw that it had reduced to 1/2 a cup. So to replace the 1/4 cup of liquid
missing I used unsweetened soy milk. You could use any milk or even some
fruit juice which you think would go with the flavors you are baking.
You can also use an 8 inch or 9 inch round cake pan instead of a spring form
pan. But I think you cannot do the topping because, while inverting the pan
to unmould the cake the toppings may fall down.
Zucchini can be grated without peeling. After grating I felt that the
strands were very big, so I chopped them coarsely.
Prettypinkbutterfly
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