Chocolate courgette cake

Ingredients:

  • 250g plain flour
  • 350g grated courgette
  • 375g caster sugar
  • 75g good quality cocoa powder – I use Green & Black’s
  • 2tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 tsp mixed spice
  • 4 free range eggs
  • 250ml vegetable oil

Method:

1. Add your dry ingredients to your mixing bowl.

2. Whip your eggs and oil together to make an emulsion and add to the dry ingredients. Mix well.

3. Add your courgette with a metal spoon and pour into a lined and greased cake tin. I use a 25cm square tin or a loaf tin plus 3-4 spare muffins! 

  
4. Bake at 180 degrees for approximately an hour depending on your oven. Keep an eye on it and test with a skewer to be sure that it is cooked through.

5. Allow to cool on a rack.

“This cake is beautifully rich and moist and I don’t feel needs any additional frosting, so I just dust with a fine layer of icing sugar to serve.”

  

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  4. Do you need to squeeze any moisture out of the courgettes once grated? You do in the other courgette cake I’ve made. Just checking!

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      1. Not sure how to post a photo here but I have made it as a tray bake. It looks fabulous, I can’t wait to taste it and wondering if my husband and kids will notice the courgettes in it!!!

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