Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Honey Whole Wheat Bread



12 servings
1 bread
13 min 10 min prep

1 cup water, plus
1 tablespoon water
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup honey
1 1/2 cups white flour
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tablespoon shortening
1 1/2 teaspoons shortening
1 tablespoon dry milk
1 teaspoon fast rising yeast
Select whole wheat or basic/white setting, and medium crust.
Remove baked bread from machine and cool on wire rack.

Dark Chocolate Zucchini Cake


2 1/2 c. flour

1/2 c. cocoa

2 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. cinnamon

3/4 c. soft butter

2 c. sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp vanilla

2 tsp. grated orange rind

2 c. coard grated zucchini

1/2 c. milk

Combine first 6 ingredients in bowl; set aside. Combine butter and suagar in bowl. Beat until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating to mix well. Stir in vanilla, orange rind and zucchini. Alternately add dry ingredients and milk to butter mixture; mix well between each addition. Pour batter into greased and floured tube pan or bundt pan. Bake 50 to 60 minutes at 350°F. Cool 5 minutes on rake. Remove from pan, cool completely. Dust with icing sugar.

Notes: This recipe does call for 1 cup of nuts which I omit because of allergies. This recipe is awesome and turns out so nice. It has a little bit of a crunchy crust and then once I stored it for a bit it was so moist and good. It's a wonderfully nice chocolate cake.