Chocolate courgette cake

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Chocolate courgette cake It may sound odd putting courgettes in a chocolate cake but they just help to keep it nice and moist. Plus it's a great way to use up a real courgette glut from the garden. This recipe came from a member of the team whose mum used to cook it for her birthday cake. Ingredients 170g dark chocolate 200g plain flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 1/4 tsp salt 110g caster sugar 2 large eggs, beaten 170ml vegetable oil 225g peeled weight of courgettes 50g chopped walnuts Method Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Grease and flour two sandwich tins ready for baking. Slowly melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water. While you are going this sift all the dry ingredients in to a bowl and in a different bowl beat the oil and eggs together. Slowly combine the oil and egg mixture withe dry ingrients. Then grate your courgettes collecting all the juice, and add these to the above mixture. Add the melted chocolate and chopped walnuts to the mixture and divide it between the sandwich tins. Cook for 25-30 minutes. Once it's cooked and cooled, layer the cake with chocolate butter cream.

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