Chocolate courgette cake | Easy recipe
A delicate, chocolatey courgette cake that will satisfy every chocolate lover.
Equipment
- Stand mixer / Hand mixer
- Baking tin (25 cm x 10 cm)
Ingredients
- 200 g wholemeal spelt flour (typ 2000)
- 50 g potato starch
- 100 ml rapeseed oil
- 300 g courgette
- 2 eggs
- 160 g sugar
- 30 g cacao powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp baking powder
- 50 g milk chocolate (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Prepare a loaf pan (25cm x 10cm), line it with baking paper.
- In a medium bowl mix dry ingredients (except for the sugar): wholemeal spelt flour, potato starch, cacao powder, baking powder, soda and salt.
- Grate the courgette and set aside.
- Using a stand mixer (or hand mixer), beat the whole eggs until fluffy (about 6-8 min). Continue mixing and add the sugar, spoon at the time (about 2 min). Continue mixing and very slowly pour the oil into your batter.
- Reduce the speed to low, add the dry ingredients and mix just until combined.
- Add the grated courgette and chopped milk chocolate (optional) to the batter and mix everything with the spatula until combined.
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan lined with baking paper and bake for 60-65 minutes or until dry toothpick.
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