Chocolate Zucchini Cookies

These chocolate zucchini cookies may sound like an odd combination, but they're so rich, chocolaty, and moist — they'll be gone before you know it.

• Preparation Time: 15 mins
• Cooking Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 25 mins
• Calories: 59 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 egg
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 0.5 teaspoon salt
• 0.5 cup white sugar
• 2.25 cups all-purpose flour
• 0.5 cup brown sugar
• 0.5 cup butter flavored shortening
• 0.33300000429153 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1.75 cups grated zucchini

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two baking sheets.

Step 2

Cream shortening, white sugar, and brown sugar in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Combine flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt in another bowl; gradually stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients, then fold in grated zucchini. Drop rounded spoonfuls of batter onto the prepared baking sheets.

Step 3

Bake in the preheated oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Allow cookies to cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.