Star Cakes

Listen Star of Wonder

I altered (and so doubled) a Zucchini bread recipe and had fun with presentation.

Ingredients:
6 eggs

2 cups oil
2 cups sugar

2-3 small zucchinis (peeled and grated), 2-3 apples (peeled, cored, and grated)

6 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking soda

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

1-2 teaspoons cinnamon

fresh grated ginger

Directions:

Beat the eggs lightly.

Add the oil, sugar, and zucchini* and apple*.
Then add the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

Cut a good chunk of fresh ginger, peel it and grate or blend (I use a food processor). Add to the mixure with cinnamon.

Raisons or dried cranberries might be nice to add. Butterscotch chips would make this more of a dessert. Mom wanted to make frosting. These are just some suggestions, but I kept it simple this time.

Make sure the batter is well whipped. Grease/flour your bake pans. I used two small star shaped bundts and one regular bundt.

Bake at 325F/ 163C for about an hour.

For the presentation of the star cakes, I put them on a blue plate (the sky) and used powdered sugar as a garnish (the stars). I placed 1 star anise in the center on the top.