Chocolate zucchini cake

Vegetables and sweets. What a weird combination. Still, when I come across a recipe for something like chocolate zucchini cake, I just couldn't resist.

The cake turned out astonishingly light and airy in texture; it's not dense at all, but still immensely tasty. The recipe called for 1-3/4 cup sugar; I reduced this back to 1 cup only. This might not be to everyone's liking -- it turned out only mildly sweet -- but the taste is really growing on me. Originally, when I had a piece right out of the oven, the cake tasted almost bitter because of the cocoa powder. That would have been a big bake fail. But now that's it's cooked, the sweetness comes through nicely. Plus, there are two zucchini's worth in it, so it's healthy, too. Can't argue with that.