Zucchini Chocolate Cake

1 stick of margarine or butter
½ cup vegetable oil
1 ¾ cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups grated zucchini (I usually peel the squash before grating)
½ cup milk

2 ½ cups flour
1 tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. baking powder
½ tsp. salt
4 Tablespoons cocoa
1 tsp. cinnamon

½ cup chocolate morsels
½ cup nuts

Preparation:
Mix together butter or margarine, oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla. Add zucchini and milk. Sift together flour, soda, baking powder, salt, cocoa and cinnamon. Add mixtures together. Sprinkle chocolate morsels and nuts over top. Bake in 13 X 9 pan (greased and floured) at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.

~Cheryl Rowell's Notes:
My family likes the recipe with semi sweet chocolate chips (I always seem to use more than ½ cup!)

The zucchini can be grated and frozen and then used in the recipe at another time - if there is a lot of liquid in the frozen zucchini, it can be drained and used in the recipe at the baker’s discretion.