Carrot, Courgette & Orange Cake - I Love Cake

I Love Cake - Cakes Containing Vegetables


Courgette, Carrot & Orange Cake

Ingredients:

100g grated carrot (peeled first)

100g grated courgette (peeled first)

250g self raising flour

250g unsalted butter at room temperature

200g demera sugar

3 eggs

1 tsp baking soda

1- 2 tsp mixed spice (depending how much flavour you like)

1 tbsp marmalade

a batch of vanilla buttercream (I have cheated and used Betty Crockers)

Method:

*pre heat the oven to 180oC or 160C or fan oven

*grease and line two sandwich tins

*cream together the butter and sugar until pale and creamy

*add all of the remaining ingredients bar the grated vegetables, and beat well to mix it all together

*fold in the carrot and courgette

*put the cake mix into the 2 tins - I found that there was a little bit too much cake mix so I kept some back and made 8 little cupcakes aswell

*bake cakes for 20-25 minutes (or until knife comes out clean)

Once cooled, sandwich the 2 sponges together with a layer of buttercream and there you have it a mixed vegetable cake!!

I had never made this version of a carrot cake before and have never incorporated courgette into a cake before, BUT I have to say it has a really nice flavour and you wouldn't know what it contained inside!! I did grate the carrot and courgette very finely which I guess you don't have to do if you wanted more texture. The original recipe I borrowed for this (BBC Good Food Website) did not use marmalade and didn't sandwich the sponge together either but I like to pimp my cakes somewhat according to what I have in the kitchen cupboards!!

So what cakes containing vegetables did you come up with? 

Please link up your recipe/recipes below
looking forward to seeing your creations :)