chocolade courgette cake

Courgette chocolate! Sound weird but...taste

amazing!

Ingredients

-          350g self-raising flour

-          50g cocoa powder

-          1tsp cinnamon

-          175ml extra-virgin olive oil

-          375g caster sugar

-          3 eggs

-          1 fresh vanilla stick (alternative 2tbs vanilla extraxt)

-          2 medium courgettes

-          60g toasted hazelnuts, chopped

-          40g toasted almonds flaks

-          40g walnut

For the icing

-          100g dark chocolate, chopped

-          100g white chocolate, chopped

-        100ml double cream

Method

1.    Heat the oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. In a large bowl, combine the flour, cocoa powder, cinamone and 1 tsp salt.

2.     In another bowl, combine the olive oil, sugar, eggs, vanilla essence and grated courgette. Mix the dry and wet mixture until just combined, then fold in the half toasted nuts and walnuts.

3.    Line a 24cm cake tin with greaseproof paper, then pour in your mixture. Bake for about 45mins, or until a knife inserted into the middle comes out clean.

4.    Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.

5.    To make the icing, place the dark and white chocolate in a two different bowl and bring cream to the boil in a saucepan. Split cream and tow chocolates and pour the hot cream over the chocolate and stir until completely smooth and melted. Leave the icing to cool slightly and thicken.

6.    Then spread it over the cake (you can put white chocolate first and when that will cool down put dark chocolate, or anther way, or half cake cover with dark chocolate and another half with white).

7.    Put rest of nuts on top of cake

8.    Eat your lovely courgette chocolate cake with chocolade souce or ice cream

Enjoy!