Regular readers of my blog will note that I feature more than my fair share of courgette recipes, I like a nice courgette cake recipe, that unassuming vegetable that adds moisture to your cake recipe and cake is a great way of using up a glut when they are in season. This recipe using spelt (one of my favourite flours) and agave nectar to give a more healthy cake, the result is a nutty chocolate cake, not overly sweet.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups spelt flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 4 tbsp cocoa powder
- 2 eggs
- 3/4 cup agave nectar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 1/2 cups grate courgette
Method
- Preheat oven to 180c
- Oil and line a 2lb loaf tin
- Sift all the dry ingrients into a bowl
- Add all the well ingredients and mix well
- Pour your batter into your prepared tin
- Bake for approx 45 mins until well risen and tested as cooked with a skewer
- Cool on a wire rack
- Cake is better after being kept a couple of days wrapped in a tin.
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