Zucchini chocolate fudge cake

Zucchinis are prolific in summer. Here's a gorgeous recipe for Zucchini Chocolate Fudge Cake. I also add in a couple of handfuls of chocolate melting buds but that's optional.

Zucchini Chocolate Fudge Cake

Ingredients
• 1 cup butter, softened
• 2 ½ cups sugar
• 4 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 cups aplain (all-purpose) flour
• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp bi-carb soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 cup milk
• 3 cups shredded zucchini (1 large)

Directions
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, bi-carb soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture alternately with milk. Stir in zucchini.
Pour into large oven baking dish or two square pans. Bake at 175°C for 30-40 minutes or until a skewer inserted near the centre comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely.
Decorate with chocolate icing.

Lemon and lime (tropical) self saucing pudding

Exactly half way through winter and the limes and lemons are prolific. We've waited a while for the lime tree to fruit and it has done so with gusto! I spotted this recipe on my FB feed today from Best Recipes - for a lemon and lime self saucing pudding. Sounds delicious. Doesn't use a great deal of the produce but it's another lemon and lime gone to a good cause!

Tropical self saucing pudding

Batter base
1 cup SR flour
¼ cup dessicated coconut
pinch salt
½ cup caster sugar
½ ts lime rind
½ ts lemon rind
½ ts vanilla extract
2 tb melted butter
½ cup milk
1 egg yolk
egg whites, beaten until stiff

sauce
½ cup caster sugar
juice of 1 lime
juice of 1 lemon
¾ cup boiling water
½ ts lime rind
½ ts lemon rind

Pre-heat oven to 180C

Batter base:
Mix wet ingredients minus egg whites until well combined
Add dry ingredients. Add more milk if batter is too thick.
Fold in beaten egg whites
Pour into greased 2L pudding basin

Sauce:
Sprinkle rind and sugar over the batter. Mix the juice and water then pour over the batter over a spoon. Bake for 40-45 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the sponge comes out clean.

Serve with whipped cream or vanilla icecream
http://www.bestrecipes.com.au - recipe 13084