Courgette loaf cake

Courgette loaf cake

Use up a garden glut in this sweet, spiced sponge loaf - the hidden veg keeps it moist and walnuts add crunch

Difficulty and servings

Easy

CUTS INTO 8 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 1 hr

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

Method

  1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Butter and line a 2lb loaf tin with baking parchment. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, oil and sugar, then add the courgettes and vanilla.
  2. In another bowl, combine the remaining ingredients with a pinch of salt.
  3. Stir the dry ingredients into the wet mixture, then pour into the tin. Bake for 1 hr, or until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean. Leave to cool, then serve, or freeze for up to 1 month.

PER SLICE

457 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 50g, fat 25 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 3g, sugar 23g, salt 0.3 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, September 2012.

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  • 18 September 2012

    Woolpacks rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Recommend draning the grated courgette, took longer to cook in the middle which caused the edges to by dry. Used pecans instead of walnuts and added orange zest. Lovely flavour.

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  • 23 September 2012

    Simikins commented on this recipe

    great tea time cake enjoyed by all. Will definitely make it again and again! Also great way to use up courgettes. I used walnut oil and as it has walnuts, the taste didn´t stand out.

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  • 30 September 2012

    amberstar rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Lovely cake, nice and moist, I did pat dry the courgettes before adding them to the ingredients. I cooked the cake for an extra 15 mins because it was too wet after an hour. Will make again everyone liked it.

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  • 14 January 2013

    fionap commented on this recipe

    Decided to try this as I had some courgettes needing to be used up. Finished result was good,but I personally think its not sweet enough (normally I reduce the amount of sugar in baking recipes because I find them too sweet) so if I did make again, I would be inclined to add a bit more sugar. I substituted mixed fruit for sultanas and pecans for walnuts -also only used half amount of nuts as I thought 85g was too much for this recipe. I used food processor to grate courgettes, so they were quite fine but you can still see them in the loaf - so dont grate them coasely unless you're happy to eat lumps of courgette!

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  • 14 January 2013

    fionap rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    forgot to rate it - wouldn't give it 5 stars as I think some improvements still needed!

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  • 15 January 2013

    fionap commented on this recipe

    I'm upgrading this to 5 stars as I cannot stop eating it since I made it yesterday! I also want to take back comment about sweetness, I think its sweet enough. I definitely recommend giving this recipe a go.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

CUTS INTO 8 slices

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 15 mins

Cook time

Cook 1 hr

Vegetarian Freezable

Vegetarian

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PER SLICE

457 kcalories, protein 8g, carbohydrate 50g, fat 25 g, saturated fat 3g, fibre 3g, sugar 23g, salt 0.3 g

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