Zucchini Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

September 20, 2017

Zucchini bread meets tender cake meets cream cheese frosting. Yum.

Ingredients

1 stickbutter

1 1/2 cupsbrown sugar

2 largeeggs

1 teaspoonvanilla

2 1/4 cupsflour

1/2 teaspoonbaking soda

1/2 teaspoonbaking powder

1/2 teaspoonsalt

1/2 teaspooncinnamon

1/4 teaspoonground cloves

1/4 cupsorghum or molasses

3/4 cupbuttermilk

1 1/2 cupsgrated yellow or green zucchini squash

1 stickbutter

12 ouncescream cheese

1 cuppowdered sugar

2 teaspoonsvanilla

Preparation

1. Grease and flour 2 9-inch cake pans.

2. Beat butter in mixer until creamy. Add sugar, beat well. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Combine flour, baking soda, powder, salt, cinnamon and cloves. Add to butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating after each addition. Blend in sorghum. Stir in zucchini. Pour into cake pans. Bake 40-50 minutes or until golden and cake springs back when pressed lightly with a finger.

3. To prepare Cream Cheese Forsting, combine butter and cream cheese in mixer bowl. Beat until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Add powdered sugar and vanilla, beat until blended. Frost cake. Serves 16.