This easy, gluten-free, refined sugar-free summer squash chocolate sheet cake is a great way to use up all that squash your summer garden has been producing!

This easy, gluten-free, refined sugar-free summer squash chocolate sheet cake is a great way to use up all that squash your summer garden has been producing! #glutenfree #refinedsugarfree #chocolate #zucchini #summersquash #chocolatecake #cake #dessert

Chocolate on the brain…

There are many ways to use up all that summer squash you’ve been seeing at the store. Or if you’re lucky enough to have a productive garden, use up all that homegrown goodness! Of course I love my zucchini as zoodles, but sometimes you just need a healthy dose of chocolate, ya know?

The other night I was sitting on the couch with my hubby, lazily watching Britain’s Got Talent (yeah… it was his idea), when all of a sudden I absolutely needed a chocolate zucchini cake. Absolutely. Needed. Nothing else would do.

So into the kitchen I went. Into the fridge, rummaging around in the produce drawers. Sadly, all I had on hand were 3 tiny zucchini, not enough for a sheet cake. (Now don’t judge, I could’ve just made an 8×8 cake, I know.) Happily, though, I had quite a few courgettes and crookneck squash. I’m not too picky when it comes to squash, so I grated up those summer squash and saved my zucchini for zoodles.

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The perfect blend.

I based my recipe for this summer squash chocolate sheet cake off a blending of these to delicious recipes: my Buttermilk Carob Zucchini Cake, and this crazy good-lookin’ Double Chocolate Zucchini Bread. Though I do like to make recipes egg-free and dairy-free, too, this cake is not (but the frosting is!). You can make it both, though, by using flax eggs, mixing a dairy-free milk (like coconut milk) with apple cider vinegar, and using dairy-free chocolate chips.

More chocolate goodness…

If you’re on the lookout for more zucchini goodness, there are a few other recipes I n the mood for some chocolate deliciousness, but don’t have any summer squash on hand? Here are a few of my go-to zucchini recipes you might enjoy:

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Summer Squash Chocolate Sheet Cake

Free of gluten and refined sugar, with egg/dairy-free options.

Ingredients

Instructions

Grease 9×13 inch pan and preheat the oven to 350.

Grate squash into large bowl and add in liquid ingredients.

Dump dry ingredients on top of wet ones and quickly mix in until no dry streaks remain.

Pour into prepared pan and bake at 350 for 35 minutes.

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This easy, gluten-free Summer Squash Chocolate Sheet Cake is a great way to use up all that squash your summer garden has been producing! RaiasRecipes.com

Easy Chocolate Frosting

Free from grain, gluten, eggs, dairy, and refined sugar.

Ingredients

Instructions

Mix everything in a small bowl and drizzle over cooled cake.

Smooth with a spoon.

Lick out the bowl.

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Pin this Summer Squash Chocolate Sheet Cake for later!

In the mood for some chocolate deliciousness, but don’t have any summer squash on hand? Here are a few of my go-to chocolate recipes you might enjoy:

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