Chocolate Avocado Cake

chocolate avocado cake recipe

I finally made a chocolate avocado cake. The avocado part in this cake recipe made me suspicious. Mixing avocado with chocolate was wrong. Wasn’t it?  I decided to go for it and  hide the avocado. In my family, anything  green, besides frosting or a salad, is viewed with suspicion.

I almost got away with sneaking a 1/2 of an avocado into the chocolate cake. Why would a mom try to sneak a green berry into a cake? Yes it’s a berry. The same reason I routinely sneak flax seed into pasta sauces. It’s my attempt to sneak vitamins and minerals into their diets. It was a calculated risk. I’ve done it before when I tried to pass off spaghetti squash as pasta.

The other reason I made this avocado chocolate cake was curiosity. I was so dang curious suspicious about how a chocolate cake (my favorite)  would taste with an avocado thrown into the batter. My avocados are usually mashed and served with chips and salsa with a side of tequila.

I went to great lengths to scoop the avocado out of the skin and discard the skin before someone started asking questions.  I cleaned the spatula and the bowls as soon as I poured the cake batter into the baking pan.

 

I thought I was in the clear until my son sliced into the cake and found green. It’s hard to pass off a smidge of avocado in a cake when you have teenagers. If they were younger I may have said a Leprechaun played a trick. Feel free to use this explanation.

This is the second Chocolate Avocado cake I made in a week because the first one was devoured in a few hours. Turns out we did not taste the avocado.  The more pressing issue was I did not get photos of the cake the first time, so I had to make a second cake.

I made a few changes to the recipe the second time. I reduced the sugar by 1/2 cup because the frosting is sweet enough the cake didn’t need the additional sugar.  No one in my family noticed. Enjoy!

recipe below

 

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