Zucchini Cake
This cinnamon zucchini cake with cream cheese frosting tastes like a tender spice cake. It has plenty of zucchini to keep the cake moist and cinnamon for flavor! It's topped with a thick cream cheese frosting.
Servings: 15 people
Ingredients
Cake
- 3 cups zucchini, grated, undrained (about 2 medium zucchini)
- 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (200 g) light brown sugar packed
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 ¼ cups vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 ¼ cups (406 g) all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
Frosting
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- ½ cup (1 stick / 113 g) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 cups (250 g) confectioners' sugar
- 1 ½ tablespoons whole milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
Cake
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray.
- To a medium bowl, add granulated sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Stir to combine.
- Add the vegetable oil and mix until incorporated. Add vanilla.
- Add eggs, one at a time, whisking until combined before adding another egg. Continue until all of the eggs have been incorporated.
- To a separate bowl, add the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Stir until incorporated.
- Combine the dry ingredients with the wet. Mix until combined.
- Using a rubber spatula, fold in the zucchini.
- Pour the batter into the prepared baking pan.
- Place in the oven and let it bake for about 60-65 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean with a few crumbs, but no wet batter.
- Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
Frosting
- To a large mixing bowl, add the cream cheese. Beat with a hand mixer on medium speed until creamy.
- Add the butter and beat on medium until combined.
- Add the confectioners' sugar, milk, and vanilla. Beat on low until the sugar is mostly worked in. Increase to medium speed and finish beating the confectioners' sugar into the frosting.
- Using an offset spatula, spread the frosting on top of the cooled cake. Cut and serve!