Spoiler Alert: Zucchinis are coming for you

Cheesy, delicious Zucchini Torta for you and your vegetarian friends

Rabbit! Rabbit! Goodbye, June. Hello summer.

After a rocky start to summer—coolish weather turning suddenly hot as it is wont to do in the Northeast, U.S.—we’re now in full zucchini territory because those prolific squashes only take from 35 to 55 days to mature. In anticipation of the zucchini explosion that every gardener and farmers’ market is about to experience, today I’m sharing a very easy vegetarian summer torta.  

Torta is the Italian word for cake, but it isn’t always sweet. The famous torta della nonna, a lemony custard cake, sounds divine, but today we’re talking about a savory cake. It’s a torta invisible, made with layers of thinly sliced zucchini coins bound together with eggs and flour and spiked with rich mascarpone, plenty of Parmesan, and herbs. The batter has also been used to make an apple invisible cake, which sounds like somethin…