Zucchini-streusel bundt cake

18 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
2 cups Coarsely Shredded Zucchini
⅓ cup Firmly Packed Brown Sugar
⅓ cup _Chopped Walnuts
⅓ cup Currants
1 tablespoon Ground cinnamon
½ teaspoon Ground allspice
3 cups All-purpose flour
1¼ cup Sugar
1½ teaspoon Baking powder
1 teaspoon Baking soda
½ teaspoon Salt
1⅓ cup Plain Nonfat Yogurt
⅓ cup Vegetable oil
1 tablespoon Vanilla extract
2 Egg whites -- lightly
Beaten
1 Egg -- lightly beaten
Vegetable cooking spray
1 tablespoon Fine Dry Bread Crumbs
¾ cup Sifted Powdered Sugar
2 teaspoons Skim Milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla extract

Directions

Place zucchini on several layers of paper towels; cover with additional=20 paper towels. Let stand 5 minutes, pressing down occasionally. Set = aside.

Combine brown sugar and next 4 ingredients in a bowl; stir well, and set = aside. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients in a large bowl; make a well = in center of mixture. Combine yogurt and next 4 ingredients; stir well.=20 Add zucchini. Add to flour mixture; stir just until dry ingredients are=20 moistened. Spray a 12-cup Bundt pan with cooking spray; sprinkle with breadcrumbs.=20 Spoon ⅓ of batter into prepared pan; top with half of brown sugar=20 mixture. Spoon half of remaining batter into pan; top with remaining brown sugar=20 mixture and batter. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted comes out = clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan. Cool completely on wire rack.=20 Combine powdered sugar and next 2 ingredients. Drizzle over cake. Yield: = 18 servings (serving size: 1 slice) Calories 245 (22% from fat), 6 = grams=20 fat (1 g sat, 1⅗ g mono, 3 g poly), 13 mg chol, 164 mg sodium.

COMMENTS: What makes a cake moist and tender? Butter, oil, sour cream, = and egg yolks. In this recipe half of the fat from this cake was taken = out=20 and zucchini was added for moistness. Its also a great-tasting way to = use=20 up some of that late-summer zucchini crop! Dorothy Cross TMPJ72B = Source:=20 Cooking Light Magazine - September, 1993 Reformatted for Meal Master = by:=20 CYGNUS, HCPM52C & CMINEAH Posted on NVN #68622 by Cmineah =20 [electrawoman] on 10/08/93, MM format Recipe By : Cooking Light Magazine, 9/93 From: Sykes.Kaye@... (Kaye Sykesdate: Thu, 16 Feb 95 10:02:23 +0100 File

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