Courgette Cake

[lisa4star]

I've just taken my first courgette cake out the oven and it looks fab.

Courgette and lemon with a lime icing. Will take it to work and let you know how it goes down although it might need a bit cut off it to fit in the box and who knows where the cut off will end up

[P. Whitaker]

oh....... how do you make that, it sounds lovely

[lisa4star]

It's yum, just had a slice.

200g grated courgette
150g caster sugar
1egg
125ml veg oil
200g plain flour
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp bicarb of soda
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp lemon zest
(I added 1 tsp nutmeg)

Preheat oven to 160. Grease a loaf tin

In a bowl, beat together the courgette, sugar, egg and oil. In a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt, bicarb and baking powder, stir in cinnamon and lemon zest. Stir the flour mixture into the courgette mixture just until blended. Pour the batter into the prepared tin.

Bake 45 mins in the preheated oven until a knife inserted in the centre comes outclean. Remove from heat and cool about 10 mins before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

I put a topping on mine of cream cheese, icing sugar, juice and zest of a lime

I used one and a half these quantities and cooked it for longer. Think these measurements are quite small.

Definitely worth trying.

[lisa4star]

The cake is gone already - went down very well at work!!

[bettie sage]

that sounds really nice .......ive seen a recipe for courgette cake in aylus fowlers book
tell us what it tastes like

[lisa4star]

You can't taste courgette but it makes it nice and moist, kinda like carrot cake.

I think walnuts and sultanas would b a nice addition.

I put yellow and green courgette in mine and think the colours worked well as there is lemon in the cake and lime in the icing.

[Reweed]

ruined a perfectly good cake with courgette. Suppose we need all the recipes we can to get rid of the buggers.

[lisa4star]

Huh.... it was good my cake but yeah you're right, my inspiration for it was because every time I go to the courgette plants there's another bugger there, lol.

[Reweed]

i use them as granades for throwing at pidgeons

[hiyatim]

lol, nothing to say here but its a cool post, reweed made me chuckle twice there

ive been grilling mine on cheese on toast. it works ok. frying them in butter too at side of meals. not sure ill grow them next year tho

[lisa4star]

I've been frying them as well with butter along with mange tout as I also have masses of them too.

I've come across a good recipe but not tested it out yet. It's a courgette tart with ricotta and pine nuts.

I'll post it if it's good.

Oh yeah almost forgot - poor pigeons, lol.

[Reweed]

i thoguth about making this earlier today, but settled on double chocolate cheesecake instead.

Maybe if i ignore the courgettes they'll die off? (in reality they'll keep getting bigger and start talking. think little shop of horrors)

[lisa4star]

That sounds yum. I made strawberry tarts and realised there is no possible way of eating them without getting in a mess or licking your lips (very lady like - I know).

[April1988]

Oh sounds yummy and a great way to use up all the courgettes!