Every year around Thanksgiving and Christmas, my mother-in-law makes a ton of cookies. But she also makes pumpkin rolls and chocolate zucchini rolls. For the past three years, I started making these rolls myself. I skip the cookies, though. I have never been that great at making cookies. So I cannot give credit to anyone for this recipe except for my MIL. So… enjoy… her Chocolate Zucchini Roll!
INGREDIENTS:
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup of flour
3/4 cup of sugar
1/2 cup of cocoa
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of cinnamon
1/4 tsp of salt
1 cup of peeled & shredded zucchini
For Filling:
8 oz. of softened cream cheese
1/4 cup of soft butter
2 tsp. of vanilla
1 cup of powdered sugar
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Beat the eggs and vanilla together and set aside.
2. Combine flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add to the vanilla and egg mixture that you set aside earlier. Mix well.
3. Stir in zucchini.
4. Spread into a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
5. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched.
6. When baking is finished, turn the pan onto a dish towel dusted with powdered sugar. Peel off the parchment paper and roll it up. Let it cool.
7. To make the filling, simply beat all 4 ingredients together for 2 minutes on high (cream cheese, butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar).
8. After the roll has cooled for an hour or so, unroll it and spread the filling on evenly and then roll it up again, without the towel this time. Dust it with some powdered sugar and place in fridge until ready to serve.
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This combo would have never crossed my mind. Sounds good!
My grandma used to make a chocolate roll all the time around the holidays, I had totally forgotten about that memory - now I want to make one 🙂
I love making pumpkin rolls, and I LOVE both zuchinni and chocolate, so I think I may need to try this!
This sounds amazing. We always have so much zucchini left over in the summer!
My Mother in law loves cooking with zucchini so I am going to share this recipe with her,
I’ve never thought of zucchini and chocolate together, but that looks divine! Yum!
Pumpkin rolls are to die for!! I’ve never tried a zucchini roll, though. Looks yummy!
This looks heavenly!! SO GOOD!!!
YUM! This looks so delicious and I love that you were able to add zucchini to a dessert!
This is such a neat use of zucchini. Looks delicious!
This is gonna be happening in January. If I had time this week, it would happen now but I’ll have to wait!
I absolutely LOVE zucchini bread but I’ve never even thought of making a cake like roll like this! It looks amazing, thanks so much for sharing your recipe!
That’s a very creative way to use zucchini! For some reason, I never feel quite so guilty eating sweet treats made with zucchini. I’m getting my veggies, right? 🙂
I’ve always wanted to make a chocolate roll. One that has zucchini in it would be a nice hidden veggie boost for the family, so this might be the recipe that I try.
This sounds fantastic! Combines some of my favorite ingredients - chocolate and zucchini!
Sounds healthy and heavenly. Wow! I never would have thought to put zucchini and chocolate together. Looks great! 🙂
YUM> This is so much better than zucchini bread.
I’ve seen these with pumpkin but never Zuchini! They look yummy.
Wow, I never would have thought of using zucchini in a chocolate recipe. This is fantastic
What a good idea to put zucchini in it, and it sure turned out pretty!
I would have never looked at that and guessed that there was zucchini in it! Looks really good. 🙂
This sounds delicious. I’ve pinned this to try later.
Now this is how I want to eat my veggies!!! =)