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Carrot and Courgette Cake Recipe

Vegetables in cakes? Well you'll have had carrot cake before now and this courgette cake is similarly moist and sweet.

Carrot and Courgette Cake Recipe
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Ingredients

Cake Ingredients
  • 600g organic plain flour
  • 4 tsp Steenbergs organic Cinnamon
  • 2 tsp Steenbergs organic Mixed Spice
  • 2 tsp golden syrup
  • 2tsp molasses
  • 2 tsp Steenbergs gluten free Baking Powder
  • 1 tsp Steenbergs Bicarbonate of Soda
  • 200g dark muscovado sugar
  • 200g golden caster sugar
  • 8 eggs
  • 450ml oil
  • 1 orange, zested
  • 1 lemon, zested
  • 4 carrots , finely grated
  • 2 courgettes, finely grated
Cream Cheese Frosting ingredients
  • 25g softened unsalted butter
  • 50g icing sugar
  • 250g cream cheese

Adding courgette to a carrot cake adds a little colour contrast and makes a very moist spiced cake that would be gratefully received on any afternoon tea table. (Also adds a few hidden vegetables into people’s diets). When you eat the cake, similarly to carrot cake, you are not thinking green vegetables!

Method

01
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C/350 F
02
Grease and flour an 12” cake tin.
03
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and mix well.
04
Pour out the cake batter in to the tin and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer comes out hot and clean.
05
Place the cake on a cooling rack to cool
06
Once cool, remove from the tin and cut the cake in half from side to side.
07
So you have a top and a bottom

Cream cheese frosting

01
Beat the ingredients together.
02
Spread a third of the mixture in the middle of the two cakes and sandwich together.
03
Top the remainder of the frosting on top of the cake and grate a little carrot and courgette on the top for decoration