Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. Moist spiced zucchini cake topped with sweet cinnamon cream cheese frosting. Old Fashioned Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a one of my all-time favorites! The perfect summer dessert for using up leftover zucchini.

Plus, it's best way to enjoy zucchini. This ultra moist and delicious Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is the ultimate dessert recipe! It's probably the healthiest cake you'll ever make! You can cook Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting using 19 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

1. You need 3 of eggs.
2. Prepare 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
3. You need 3/4 cup of applesauce.
4. It's 3/4 cup of brown sugar.
5. You need 3/4 cup of sugar.
6. You need 2 tsp. of vanilla extract.
7. It's 2 1/2 cups of flour.
8. It's 1/4 tsp. of baking powder.
9. You need 2 tsp. of baking soda.
10. You need 1 1/2 tsp. of cinnamon.
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp. of nutmeg.
12. You need 1/2 tsp. of salt.
13. It's 2 cups of shredded zucchini.
14. Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting:.
15. Prepare 1 (8 oz.) of cream cheese, room temperature.
16. It's 1/4 cup of softened butter.
17. Prepare 3 cups of powdered sugar.
18. Prepare 1 tsp. of vanilla extract.
19. It's 1/2 cup of chopped walnuts, if desired.

You'll fall in love with my easy Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread! Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. The cake is covered in a seriously decadent whipped cream cheese frosting that is the perfect flavor to compliment the banana zucchini cake! Covered in massive amounts of sugary frosting of course.

Zucchini Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. To a large bowl add eggs, oil, applesauce, sugars and vanilla extract. Mix well..
2. Add baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt; mix well..
3. Add zucchini..
4. Lastly add flour mixing until thoroughly combined..
5. Place mixture into greased 9x13 baking dish and bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean..
6. Allow cake to completely cool before making the frosting. When ready, combine all frosting ingredients in a small bowl..
7. Spread evenly over cake. Top with walnuts if desired..
8. Enjoy!.

More on that in a moment. As per most recipes that I get my hands on, I had to turn it into a cake. Frosted with the same homemade cream cheese frosting recipe I used on my Pumpkin Cupcakes Recipe, this light zucchini cake is the perfect summer treat. You can add raisins, walnuts, and/or shredded coconut if you wish; but it's also quite delicious without any optional ingredients. He eats cream cheese on his bagels, he likes sugar and butter and vanilla so why on Earth wouldn't he like cream cheese frosting?!?!?!?!