In summer, zucchini sometimes produces fruit much faster than garden owners would like. However, that is no reason to give the delicious legs as a gift, because they can also be wonderfully made into sweet dishes.
How to prepare zucchini as a dessert?
Zucchini are ideal as a sweet dish. They can demonstrate their versatility and provide delicious variety in both a chocolaty zucchini cake with walnuts and an exotic zucchini and ginger jam.
Zucchini chocolate cake
This cake is wonderfully moist and tastes wonderfully chocolaty at the same time. For the right amount of crunch, the dough is enriched with walnuts.
Ingredients for a loaf pan
- 350 g finely grated zucchini
- 240 g flour
- 120 g sugar
- 120 ml sunflower oil
- 3 eggs
- 50 g baking cocoa
- 50 g dark grated chocolate
- 30 g coarsely broken walnuts
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch of s alt
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees.
- Beat the eggs with the sugar until fluffy.
- Stir in oil.
- Mix flour, cocoa, baking powder and s alt.
- Toss the zucchini with a third of the flour mixture.
- Add the rest of the flour with the grated chocolate and the coarsely broken nuts into the egg-oil mixture and fold in.
- Fold zucchini into the dough.
- Pour everything into the previously greased loaf pan.
- Bake about 50 minutes.
- Let the cake cool for ten minutes, turn it out of the tin and let it cool completely.
- If desired, decorate with powdered sugar or chocolate icing.
Zucchini ginger jam
Do you love unusual jams? Then our zucchini jam should suit your taste exactly.
Ingredients
- 800 g peeled, finely grated zucchini
- 1 thumb-sized piece of ginger
- 1 kg preserving sugar 1:1
- 1 – 2 splashes of lemon juice
Preparation
- Peel the ginger and chop it into very fine pieces.
- Put all ingredients in a large pot and mix.
- Cover and let it steep for an hour.
- During this time, sterilize the jars and lids in boiling water for ten minutes.
- Bring the zucchini-ginger mixture to the boil and let it simmer for about three minutes while stirring.
- Do a jelly test. If the jam solidifies, pour it directly into the jam jars. Otherwise, cook for another minute.
- Close the jars while they are hot and let them cool upside down.
Tip
The jam combination of zucchini and apples or zucchini and pineapple also tastes great.
