Chocolate courgette cake

Name: Chocolate courgette cake
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: 6

Pudding & Cake Serves 6 55 min

Adding courgettes to this chocolate cake gives it a beguilingly moist, fudgy texture - and its a great way to use up a surplus of courgettes too!

Cook's notes

If after grating your courgettes seems particularly watery, wrap them up in a tea towel and wring some of the water out.

Prep time: 10 min

Cooking time: 45 min

Step 1
Preheat oven to 190°C/Gas 5. Grease a 20x35cm baking tin and line with baking parchment.
Step 2
Put the butter, sunflower oil and both sugars in a bowl and beat them together until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the eggs and then the milk.
Step 3
Sift the dry ingredients together and fold them into the butter mixture. Stir in the courgettes and vanilla, then spoon the mixture into the tin.
Step 4
Bake for 35-45 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cut into squares whilst still warm.