Whats your favourite cake?

No need to squeeze out the 'juice' - the cake turns out moist but not wet. I've made it loads of times, in 2lb loaf tin and a Swiss roll tin. The lemon drizzle helps mask the very slight courgette flavour if you have a very sensitive palate.

Wouldn't the courgette make this a very wet cake, would you not need to squeeze much of the juice from them first?

They sound fascinating! How wonderful! 

Kate Kestrel said:

courgette and lemon cake

This is a recipe given me during a walking group years ago. I've translated it to grams from ounces so hope this is correct - sugar was 5oz, courgette and flour 7oz. It is very light and moist!

Courgette and Lemon Cake

 200 grams grated courgette, skin on [about 1 large courgette]

145 grams sugar [brown]

1 egg, beaten

4 fl. oz. vegetable oil

200 grams plain flour

Salt

½ teaspoon baking powder

¼ teaspoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons lemon zest

Optional; drizzle, juice of ½ lemon + sugar, to taste

Beat the courgette, sugar, egg and oil

Stir in the dry ingredients

Stir wet into dry ingredients

Pour in a loaf tin or Swiss roll tin

#bake 160C for 45 mins

Cool before removing from tin

Optional: mix juice ½ -1 lemon with some sugar and drizzle over top of warm cake

My wife works with some Filipino nurses, they make some wonderful food and often bring it into work. A favourite  is Purple yam cake, another is Marrow cake. A Christmas treat was a Brussel sprout cake, apparently very nice. I never got to try it, with nurses there is never spare or leftover cake.

I buy this courgette and lemon cake from a bakery - I don’t buy it. You can’t really taste the courgette - but the take just has this lovely light, delicate taste - slightly lemony, but just so light and delicate. Writing this is making me desperately want this type of cake! Sadly the bakery doesn’t make it at the moment - which is very frustrating! I should probably try to make it really - but when I try to make more adventurous cake recipes they rarely work out well! Maybe one day I’ll try it. 

ill have to try ut now to see if i like it

For a long time I thought the same as you, but they're actually delicious and not at all savoury, I've had chocolate and beetroot cake which s really good and you don't taste the beetroot but it adds a moistness and a depth to the chocolate. I think it will take me a while to get my head around courgettes in sweet things though.

If I could replace blueberries with blackcurrants then I might be OK, but I don't like blueberries.

i never tried carrot cake, i never thought they belonged

Yes - this thread should have a health warning :)

Yummy blueberry muffins are delicious! This threads making me soo hungry lol.

Oh I love this! It sounds like a dream job. 

It reminds me of a cross between mole from 'the boy, and the mole, and the fox, and the horse', and Bernard from a comedy show 'black books', I don't think he liked anyone actually coming into his bookshop.

Jaffa cakes are now officially a cake. A cake goes hard over time whereas a biscuit goes soft, apparently. 

Courgette cake peaks my interest a lot. I have not, that I remember, had courgette cake but I think I will investigate this. I used to make savoury courgette bread (it’s flourless and bound together with egg and ground almonds - but largely it’s made of courgettes with most of the water squeezed out of them) which was one of my favourite bakes. 

I'd love a bakery and a secondhand bookshop. I'd never open them just eat and read and watch people looking through the door . 

Make them yourself then they won't have additives. Mary Berry recipe. 

Do they or don’t they? I remember seeing a discussion about this but I can’t remember what the conclusion was. As they go hard if kept out of a tin rather than soft like a biscuit, I reckon they count as cake.

Well it depends how you define “cake”. 

Maybe I can get away with Esterházy Torte. But if you are being very strict with your cake definition then I suppose a slice of Victoria sponge would do (but without the jam please). 

Oh yes - Apple and cinnamon cake - gorgeous!

Jaffa Cakes are wonderful. My son is addicted to them however and eats a worryingly huge amount of them.