2009-10-18 - LFGSS Cake & Bake Off

I'll show you mine if you show me yours...?

Courgette cake

Ingredients:

* 250g soft butter
* 450g sugar
* 4 eggs
* 350g self raising flour
* 2 squirts lemon juice
* 2 tsp cinnamon
* 2 tsp ground ginger (I used fresh, but only because I had it lying around)
* 1/4 nutmeg, grated
* 350g courgette, grated
* 1 handful of any dried fruit (I used sultanas)

Method:

1. Grease and line tin with greaseproof paper. Preheat oven to 180°C (170°C for fan ovens).
   
2. Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Mix in eggs one at a time.
   
3. Mix the spices into the flour. Fold 1/3 of the flour into the batter, followed by 1 squirt of lemon juice, and repeat this using the remaining flour and lemon, so that all the ingredients are well combined.
   
4. Stir in the courgette and fruit.
   
5. Pour the mixture into the tin and place on the centre shelf of the preheated oven. Leave the cake to cook for about an hour and a half* or until it has a decent crust. Turn the cake out on a rack and allow to cool.
   
   

(*NB. I took it out of the oven after the recommended time, and after a few minutes the middle had sunk, and I could see that it was still uncooked inside. So I put it back in again, and after at least another hour and a half, possibly longer, it was finally solid. The only reason I took it out when I did was that I was worried the top would start to burn. But all ovens are different, so this is FYI only.)

...or should this happen in a separate thread?