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Chocolate Courgette Cake

How do you make chocolate cake using courgettes?!

food

Chocolate Courgette Cake

How do you make chocolate cake using courgettes?!

Supplies

  • 290 grams plain flour
  • 330 grams caster sugar
  • 75 grams cocoa powder
  • 100 grams dark chocolate, melted
  • 2 courgettes
  • 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • Sea salt
  • 100 milliliters veg oil
  • 100 milliliters olive oil
  • 2 large eggs
  • A handful of nuts of your choice,
  • Blanched and roughly chopped

Steps

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C
  2. Mix together the eggs and the oils so they are well combined and pale. Mix in the dry ingredients. Slice of two ribbons for top and grate in the rest of the courgettes. Stir through all but a heaped tablespoon of the melted chocolate and the nuts if using.
  3. Grease and line a 2 pounds cake tin and place in the the oven for 40 minutes, until you can stick a skewer in the middle and it comes out clean. Leave to cool and then pour out of tin. Drizzle over the remaining melted chocolate to decorate.