Zucchini Cake!

Zucchini cake

Before the Easter holidays John´s literacy group got to invent some recipes with the main ingredient being zucchinis. John and John’s literacy group all inspired me to try a recipe at home. So on Monday this week I decided to make a zucchini cake. So if you would like to make a zucchini cake just read this recipe below and you can try it yourself!!!

Zucchini Cake

3 eggs

1 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1 tsp vanilla essence

125g butter, softened

1/2 cup plain unsweetened yoghurt

250-300g grated zucchini

250g chocolate chips

2 1/2 cups flour

1/4 cup cocoa

2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp mixed spice

In a food processor or using a beater mix eggs, sugars and vanilla.

Add butter and yoghurt, blend until smooth.

Fold in zucchini and chocolate and combined dry ingredients.  Mix gently.

Spread into greased cake tin and bake at 180 degrees for 50 minutes.

Keep in the fridge.

What happened to my Zucchini cake?

Molly made an amazing Zucchini cake and we ate it.  It was devoured, annihilated, devastated, destroyed, alongside a cup of tea during morning break in the staffroom.  It was delicious Thanks Molly!  

Zucchini Writing

Zucchini Cooking Shared Writing.

(We imagined that we were reporters from the New York Times reporting on the Zucchini cooking at Worser Bay School.)

Reporter from the New York Times on the Zucchini Phone

Smoke rising up, drifting across the playground, children chattering excitedly, a delicious aroma filling the air.  Flames flying high, the smell of charcoal, so strong and sweet you just want to eat.

A pizza oven in the corner of the courtyard has a group of students standing around it. They have their heads down, talking.

Kids run around the corner, there is cheering in the distance.  What are they cheering for? What’s that smell? They come back with green around their mouths.

“John the Zucchinis are sizzling!”

“Let me see,”

“I hope these are going to be nice - I mean we did invent the recipe.”

“Eh, they’ll be fine.”

It's exciting and surprising what's cooking them. A pair of flame powered pizza ovens, mounted on a small structure holding wood. The one that is active is like a furnace. You don’t see that every day.

Today the senior students are cooking up a storm, and the ovens are attracting a lot of attention from the junior pupils. There is discussion, preparing, and cooking galore.  

It all started with the one question: What can you do with a Zucchini?

Students compiled long lists of Zucchini recipes.  There were Zucchini and black bean Quesadillas, Zucchini brownies, Zucchini chocolate cake, ¨Hidden¨ Zucchini pasta, Zucchini  Zucchini pancakes, Oven baked  Zucchini chips,  Zucchini soup, Herb turkey burgers with  Zucchini,  Zucchini parmesan

Zucchini pizza, Zucchini bread, Zucchini juice, Zucchini Quiche, Zucchini with pearl pasta, Zucchini mac and cheese, Ratatouille, Zucchini fries,Tomato and Zucchini bake.

And, Zucchini fritters!  The only thing they didn’t consider was how a Zucchini could be used as a weapon.

Did you know that Zucchinis are biologically fruits but are culinarily treated as vegetables.

Also not many people know that zucchinis can kill people. However, if you have particularly bitter  zucchini, STOP EATING IT IMMEDIATELY! The poison has a bitter taste so if it is bitter there is still hope because you are still alive to taste it!

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