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Chocolate, zucchini and spinach cake with avocado chocolate frosting

It's easy to eat veg when they're jammed into a lipsmacking treat!
Andre Martin
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Vegetables in a cake? Yes you heard right. This chocolate treat is made with veg!

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Ingredients

Avocado chocolate frosting

Method

1.

Preheat oven to 180 degrees C fan-forced (200 degrees C conventional). Grease two 20cm round cake tins with cooking oil then line base and sides with baking paper. Put zucchini and milk in a blender and blitz until smooth. Add spinach and cocoa and blitz again. 

2.

Put butter and brown sugar in a large bowl and whisk until combined. Whisk in eggs, 1 at a time. Pour in zucchini mixture and whisk again until smooth. It’s OK if mixture looks a little split. 

3.

Sift in flour, bicarb and baking powder and stir until smooth. Pour evenly into prepared tins. Bake for 45 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Set aside cakes for 15 minutes then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

4.

To make avocado chocolate frosting, put all frosting ingredients in the bowl of a food processor and process until a smooth paste forms. 

5.

Spread ½ of the frosting on 1 cake then put other cake on top. Spread remaining frosting on top. To serve, garnish with strawberries, edible flowers and leaves (for decoration only, do not eat).

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