Best 14 Zucchini Nut Cake Recipes

ZUCCHINI WALNUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 13x9-in. baking pan; set aside. , In a large bowl, beat the zucchini, sugar, oil and eggs until well blended. Combine the flour, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and baking soda; gradually beat into zucchini mixture until blended. Fold in walnuts if desired. , Pour into prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 35-40 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack. , For frosting, in a small bowl, beat the cream cheese, butter, milk and vanilla until smooth. Add confectioners' sugar and mix well. Frost cake. Sprinkle with nuts if desired. Store in the refrigerator.

ZUCCHINI CAKE

Steps:

• For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a 9-by-13-inch pan.
• In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, pecans, coconut, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg and ginger. In another bowl, whisk together the oil, milk, vanilla and eggs and stir in the grated zucchini. Fold this into the dry ingredients. The batter will be stiff and dry but keep folding it and it will all come together. If it still seems too dry, just add a little more milk.
• Spread the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs and the cake is pulling away from the sides of the pan, about 20 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.
• For the frosting: Beat the cream cheese and butter in a large bowl with a mixer at medium speed until smooth. Beat in the powdered sugar and vanilla just until smooth. Add the milk if necessary.
• Spread the frosting over the top of the cooled cake. Garnish with chopped pecans.

ZUCCHINI NUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 10-inch fluted tube pan (such as a Bundt®).
• Sift flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice together in a bowl. Cream butter and vegetable shortening together in a separate large bowl until thoroughly combined; beat in white sugar and 1 cup brown sugar until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Beat eggs, water, and vanilla extract into the shortening mixture, followed by the flour mixture. Gently stir in zucchini and 1/2 cup walnuts. If batter seems dry, mix in 1 more tablespoon water.
• Melt 1/4 cup butter in a saucepan over medium-low heat and stir in 1/2 cup brown sugar until it has dissolved and small bubbles appear in the mixture. Stir 1/2 cup walnuts into the brown sugar mixture.
• Spoon brown sugar-walnut mixture into the bottom of the prepared cake pan and pour cake batter over the mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until lightly golden brown and a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean, about 1 hour. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then invert over a serving plate to reveal the brown sugar topping.

ZUCCHINI CAKE WITH NUTS

Steps:

• Grease a large box mold and dust with flour or ground nuts. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees top and bottom heat. Wash, peel and finely grate the zucchini and squeeze out the excess water.
• Beat the eggs with the zucchini for a few minutes until very foamy. Stir in the oil. Mix flour, nuts, baking powder, cinnamon, and vanilla. Also stir those in. Finally fold in the zucchini rasp.
• Fill the dough into the form and smooth it down. Bake the cake for about 50-55 minutes. Leave to cool in the tin, then turn out. Dust with icing sugar or cover with liquid cake glaze or melted chocolate coating. Decorate with chopped nuts.

ZUCCHINI CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Spray a bundt-style pan or 10-inch spring-form pan with center hole with nonstick cooking spray.
• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and salt.
• Beat together applesauce, sugars, egg whites and orange rind.
• Blend in flour mixture with mixer at medium speed, beating only until smooth; do not overbeat.
• Stir in zucchini and dates.
• Pour batter into prepared pan and bake 45 to 50 minutes or until knife inserted near center comes out clean. Remove cake from pan, or if using spring-form, remove sides of pan and put cake on wire rack to cool completely.

ZUCCHINI CARROT CAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl beat eggs and sugar until frothy. Gradually beat in oil. Combine dry ingredients; add to batter. Beat 4 minutes. Stir in carrots, zucchini and nuts. Pour into three greased 9-in. round baking pans. Bake at 350° for about 35 minutes or until top springs back when lightly touched. Cool 5 minutes before removing from pans. Cool thoroughly on a wire rack. , For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter in a large bowl until smooth. Add sugar and vanilla. Continue beating until sugar is dissolved. Spread between the layers and over the top and sides of the cake. Garnish with whole or chopped nuts if desired.

ZUCCHINI CAKE I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Lightly grease and flour three 9-inch round cake pans.
• In a medium bowl combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, white sugar, and salt. Mix well.
• In another bowl, beat eggs, vegetable oil, and 1 teaspoon vanilla together. Pour into egg mixture into the flour mixture and mix well. Stir in the shredded zucchini. Pour batter into prepared pans.
• Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted into each layer comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Allow cakes to cool in pans for 10 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and allow to cool completely.
• To Make Frosting: Beat cream cheese and butter until smooth. Add the confectioner's sugar, a little at a time, and beat until smooth. Stir in 2 teaspoons vanilla. Spread between cake layers and stack to make a 3-layer cake.

ZUCCHINI CAKE

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda and salt. In a separate bowl, mix oil, eggs and vanilla; add to flour mixture and beat. Add zucchini; mix well. Fold in nuts. Pour into three well-greased 9-in. round baking pans. , Bake at 325° for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks to cool completely. , For frosting, beat cream cheese and butter; blend in sugar and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Frost between layers and top and sides of cake.

CHOCOLATE ZUCCHINI CAKE III

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9x13 inch baking pan.
• In a medium bowl, stir together the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Add the eggs and oil, mix well. Fold in the nuts and zucchini until they are evenly distributed. Pour into the prepared pan.
• Bake for 50 to 60 minutes in the preheated oven, until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Cool cake completely before frosting with your favorite frosting.

ZUCCHINI NUT BREAD

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Coat two 4 1/2-by-8 1/2-inch loaf pans with nonstick spray, line with parchment paper, and spray paper. Combine zucchini, sugars, oil, and eggs in a large bowl and mix until combined. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Fold in nuts and extract. Divide batter between loaf pans. Bake until a tester inserted in the middle of each loaf comes out clean, about 1 hour 10 minutes. Cool 10 minutes on wire rack. Invert, and remove parchment paper. Cool completely on rack.

ZUCCHINI RAISIN SPICE CAKE

Steps:

• Best if prepared with food processor:.Process dry ingredients about 10 seconds to blend. Empty into a large mixing bowl. Process nuts until chopped, about 6 seconds. Empty into a small bowl.
• Using grater: Grate unpeeled zucchini, using medium pressure. Empty into a measuring cup and measure loosely packed.
• Steel knife: process eggs with sugar for 1 minute. Do not insert pusher in feed tube. While machine running, Add oil and vanilla through tube. Process about 45 seconds. Add zucchini and process 8-10 seconds. Remove cover and add dry ingredients. SEE NOTE. Process 3 or 4 quick bursts, just until flour disappears. Sprinkle nuts and raisins over batter . Give 1 0r 2 more quick bursts.
• Pour batter into greased and floured 9" by 13" baking pan, or 12-cup Bundt pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 55 to 60 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool 15 minutes before removing from pan. Can be iced or glazed when cool, but it's great just plain. Keeps very well in fridge and freezes well.
• NOTE: This amount of batter will nearly completely FILL the bowl of standard sized food processors, but probably not overflow. You can add zucchini mixture to dry ingredients in mixing bowl, Mix with wooden spoon until blended then add nuts and raisins, or dates.

ZUCCHINI CAKE WITH GINGER AND HAZELNUTS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. 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.

ZUCCHINI DATE CAKE

Steps:

• Mix eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla.
• Beat until smooth.
• Add zucchini.
• Stir in dry ingredients.
• Add dates and nuts.
• Pour into a 9x13 greased and floured pan.
• Bake at 325 degrees for 45 minutes to one hour.

ZUCCHINI COCONUT CAKE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Grease 2 9x13-inch baking pans.
• Beat eggs, white sugar, and vegetable oil together until well blended.
• Stir flour, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt into egg mixture until batter is just mixed.
• Fold zucchini, 1 1/2 cups coconut and 1 1/2 cups black walnuts into batter until evenly distributed.
• Divide batter evenly between the prepared baking pans.
• Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes before removing to cool completely on wire racks.
• Beat cream cheese and butter in a large bowl with an electric mixer until smooth.
• Gradually beat confectioners' sugar into cream cheese mixture until frosting is light and fluffy.
• Fold 1 cup coconut, 1/2 cup black walnuts, raisins, and vanilla extract into cream cheese frosting.
• Spread cream cheese frosting over completely cooled cakes.