{"id":4931,"date":"2018-06-01T01:09:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T01:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betondinner.com\/?p=4931"},"modified":"2018-06-01T01:09:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T01:09:52","slug":"flourless-double-chocolate-zucchini-cake-paleo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betondinner.com\/flourless-double-chocolate-zucchini-cake-paleo\/","title":{"rendered":"Flourless Double Chocolate Zucchini Cake (Paleo!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dense,<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s been summer – kids out of school summer, anyway – for just over a week here and I think my kids have asked for a snack 23095723 times so far. I’m pretty stingy with snacks (one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and we try to keep them pretty healthy) but somehow that doesn’t stop everyone from asking for one every 2 seconds. And not like, can I have a banana, it’s like, can I have chocolate chips? Do we have any cake? Can we have popsicles? Do we have ice cream? (No; no; no; yes, but that’s secret grown up ice cream for after bedtime, SORRYNOTSORRY.) So while moms are allowed to have handfuls of chocolate chips at random times throughout the day, that’s not a habit I want to trickle down to the next generation. (See also: many other habits, including but not limited to never making my bed, hoarding pens, and being so paralyzed by decorating decisions that we’re going on year 4 with a disposable paper blind on our front door.)<\/p>\n

\"flourless<\/a><\/p>\n

ANYWAY. This is a magical flourless double chocolate zucchini cake that’s perfect for a special snack or a totally legit dessert! It’s healthy (mostly veggies and almond butter, y’all), super filling so you don’t need a snack again in 10 minutes, and checks the chocolate chip AND cake craving boxes my kids apparently have on a daily basis. Plus it’s fun for kids to help make because you just dump everything into a bowl and mix – I let my almost-2-year-old help with this and it wasn’t disastrous (unless you call licking the spoon and then stirring a little more disastrous).<\/p>\n

\"mixed<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve been using these parchment paper sheets for baking lately and not just to line a sheet pan, and it’s pretty glorious to not have to scrub the corners of a cake pan! Oh, and all those zucchini shreds you see in the batter virtually disappear in the finished cake. It’s very sneaky!<\/p>\n

\"flourless<\/a><\/p>\n

The cake is moist, dense, and SUPER chocolatey! You don’t taste zucchini or almond butter, in my opinion, even though those are the main ingredients. It honestly just tastes like chocolate cake, like a fluffy, not-as-sweet brownie. This recipe is based on this flourless chocolate chip zucchini snack cake<\/a>\u00a0– I just tweaked a couple of things to add cocoa powder for a double chocolate version. Both are delicious and are huge staples during zucchini season around here!<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a><\/p>\n

Can I have a snack? Can I have chocolate chips? Do we have cake? Yes, yes, yes.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\nPrint<\/a>

\n