Seth's Favorite Zucchini Chocolate Cake

If you don't share the recipe, no one guesses there is zucchini is this very moist, chocolatey cake.

Ingredients:
4oz unsweetened chocolate
1/2 c vegetable oil
1/2 c butter at room temperature
2c sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 Tbs vanilla extract
2c sifted all purpose flour
1/3 c cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/3 c buttermilk or sour cream
3c coarsely grated zucchini or summer squash
1/2 c chopped nuts (optional)

Melt chocolate and oil in small saucepan on very low heat.

Cream butter until light. Add sugar, eggs and vanilla. Beat well. Add the melted chocolate and mix well.

Sift together the dry ingredients and stir them into the batter with the buttermilk/sour cream. Mix the Zucchini and nuts into the batter.

Grease and flour two 9-inch cake pans. Divide the batter between pans. (I've used 13x9x2 pans as well)

Bake at 350* on the middle shelf of the oven for 40 minutes, or until toothpick comes clean.

Cool and frost.

Recipe from Storey's Basic Country Skills book.