This delicious chocolate courgette cake is a perfect example of how delicious vegan baking can be. Pure indulgence! This is one of my most popular dessert recipes.
I love adding vegetables to cakes. Here, the courgettes are the secret and (very) discreet ingredient. You cannot taste them but they add moisture and texture as well as 1 or your 5 a day to this scrumptious recipe.
Bound to please all chocoholics, it can easily double as a birthday cake.
I borrowed the icing from Rachel Demuth’s Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake. It is the perfect addition to this chocolate courgette cake.
Enjoy!
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The cake recipe is fantastic. I made it and it turn out great, the flavor and texture.
Just a thing. The frosting recipe, I think its wrong and its meant to double boiler the butter, is it? I didnt use frosting in my cake but i would like to know if its like that.
Thanks.
Thanks Sofia. Glad to know you liked this cake. The frosting recipe is correct. The butter is melted by putting the hot water in it and then mixing in the other ingredients. The frosting spreads easily and then solidifies when it cools down. Annabelle.
Great cake – very sweet!! Tastes like your everyday American chocolate cake. One thing I will say – mix mix mix those dry ingredients before adding the wet! Mine ended up with little pockets of baking soda which were not amazing 😀
This is a really delicious, moist chocolate cake,thanks for a great vegan recipe
So glad you enjoyed it !
A fabulously light and moist chocolate cake, very tasty but not stodgy or sickly.
So glad you enjoyed it!
Wonderful recipe, foolproof enough for even this fool of a cook to bake perfectly.
Fantastic! So glad you enjoyed it!
I like this recipe. It’s my children’s favourite chocolate cake. For a lighter and healthier version I use half wholewheat flour half white flour. I use 250g of coconut sugar instead of 350g caster sugar. And to replace the vegetable oil, I use 55g coconut oil and 60g apple sauce. It doesn’t change the delicious texture and you can eat more !
I like your healthy substitution ideas. Thanks!