My Mum was always baking when we were children. Suffice to stay, she’s still baking and now so am I. Love it. I love the way it makes the house smell (like ‘good times’). It’s like a kind of therapy, especially the bit where you get to eat your work.
Mum’s latest fad is courgette cakes - my cousin is currently overrun with the blighters, so to help her out my mum offered to take a few off her hands. Instead of the usual courgette offerings - grilled, roasted, stuffed etc - Mum decided to make a courgette cake. And my word, is it tasty! The recipe is from Mum’s cousin Sue, who in turn probably got it from somewhere else…but here it is:
Courgette Cake
(Makes 2 x 1lb loaves or can be Tray Baked)
8oz Courgettes - grated. Peel if you don’t want a green cake!
5oz Margarine
9-10oz sugar
4 Eggs (Beaten)
11oz Self-Raising Flour
2tsp Ground Cinnamon or Mixed Spice
4-5oz Seedless Raisins
3oz Chopped Nuts
2tsp Vanilla Essence
Method: Preheat oven on Gas Mark 4. Grease tins or tray. You can line the tray bake with greaseproof paper. Cream the marg and sugar, beat the eggs and then add the flour alternatively, making sure that it is well mixed. Beat in the cinnamon, courgettes, raisins, nuts and vanilla essence. Cook for 1 hour. Make sure that you leave the cake to cool once it is done, as the mixture is quite moist. You might find that you have to really gently ease the cake out of the tin with a pallet knife.
N.B. Rich tore down half the ceiling in the kitchen and made a big mess, so when that’s cleared up, I shall have my own picture of my courgette cake. For now, there’s some nice courgette muffins to look at.
13 Responses to “Courgette Cake - Yes, Really.”
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August 14th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
These cakes look delicious. May I add a link to this recipe on my post about courgette recipes?
Sara from farmingfriends
September 6th, 2007 at 6:55 am
Courgette cake is great, I sometimes make a chocolate one, which is really gooey and rich, if you have loads of courgettes Marrow and ginger marmalade is really yummy too! and courgette bread, courgette muffins, sliced to penne size and put in pasta carbanara Courgettes are fab!
August 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Hi we have an allotment and at this time of year we have lots of different veggies to pick and was wondering what to do for a change corgette cake sounds great, could I use yellow corgettes as we have them by the ton. Thanks Adele
August 25th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Thank you, the cake is cooked & it looks good. Lets see what the family think after tea tonight! I guess it would freeze OK?
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
this cake is sooooo yummy, i bake one every week with my corgettes from the allotment! yum yum
October 15th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
simple and so tasty it was gone within a day thank you
July 29th, 2010 at 8:51 am
With a glut of courgettes from the garden I am making muffins for a natural health fair on Saturday to raise funds for a charity. I may try wholemeal flour and a little bicarb in the spirit of healthy eating - I’ll let you know how they go!
August 1st, 2010 at 9:31 pm
I’m just trying an adaptation of this without the cinnamon and with fresh whitecurrants instead of the raisins. You can tell I’m trying to use up allotment surplus. Lol.
I’m making it as cupcakes, and I’m going to do a cream cheese icing with sugared whitecurrants on top. The first batch are just out of the oven and look and smell wonderful.
August 10th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
Thank you very much for sharing this recipe.
I was given a monster yellow courgette yesterday up the lotty (as well as 4 hunormous marrows) and so asked my trusty friend Mrs Google what to do with them - and this is where she led me.
So far today I have made 3 batches, 1 as per your recipe, 1 without the fruit and nuts but with coffee, and 1 with coconut. All 3 of them are delicious and will definitely be made again.
Next time I’ll have a go with one of the marrows I think
xxx
August 20th, 2010 at 5:04 am
Just thought I’d look up a recipe for courgette cake as I tried my first the other day and yours was the second search result on google! Will be giving this a try over the weekend