Cucumber cake

24 September 2009

The cucumbers in my patch are growing faster than I can eat them, so when I saw a recipe for courgette cake in The Week, I thought I’d give it a go with cucumber instead. Thus Nigel Slater’s courgette cake became my cucumber cake. The result is very tasty – light, but still full of flavour.

Ingredients:

200g butter
200g caster sugar
2 eggs
150g courgettes / cucumbers with the seeds scraped out
1 small apple
200g plain flour
a large pinch of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
pinch cinnamon
60g pecans
80g sultanas / raisins

1. Preheat the oven to 180ºC / Gas 4. Line a loaf tin measuring 20cm x 12cm x 9cm deep. (I have cunningly useful loaf tin cases)

2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat the eggs and mix them in, one at a time, making sure each is fully incorporated before adding the next.

3. Coarsely grate the courgettes/cucumbers and the apple. Squeeze them with your hands to remove excess moisture (with cucumber at least, there will be a lot), then add to the mixture.

4. Mix the flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon, and gently fold into the mixture.

5. Stir in the nuts and fruit. Transfer to the lined loaf tin and bake for about an hour, or until golden and firm to the touch. Allow to cool in the tin before turning out.

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dreamdust » 2420g vegetables in 2 hours
11th October 2009 @ 5:10 pm

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