Zucchini cake with ginger and hazelnuts
Zucchini cake with ginger and hazelnuts recipe in the zucchini category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2 cups flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 1/3 cup orange juice
- 2 teaspoons orange zest
- 2 teaspoons peeled, grated ginger root
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups grated zucchini
- 1/2 cup finely chopped hazelnuts
Recipe method:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Sift the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt into a large bowl.
- Stir in the sugar.
- In another bowl, whisk together the eggs, oil, orange juice, zest, ginger and vanilla.
- Pour the wet ingredients into the bowl with the flour and stir until just combined.
- Fold in the zucchini and hazelnuts.
- Butter and flour a tube pan.
- Scrape the batter into the pan and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 45 minutes.
- Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes.
- Remove from the pan and cool completely on a wire rack.
- Slice and serve.
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