Courgette and pistachio cake

Serves: 12
Prep: 10
Cook: 30

A dessert with a twist, kept fluffy and moist with grated courgette and delicately flavoured by pistachio nuts.

Ingredients

  • ¾ cup canola oil
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 2 eggs, lightly beaten
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • ½ cup pistachio nuts, chopped
  • 1 ½ cups courgette, grated
  • 1 cup white self-raising flour
  • 1 cup wholemeal self-raising flour
  • 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
  • ¾ tsp nutmeg

Method

  1. Step 1

    Place oil, sugar, eggs and vanilla into a large bowl, mix well with an electric mixer.

  2. Step 2

    Add pistachio nuts, courgette and sifted dry ingredients, mix until well combined. Pour mixture into a lightly greased and lined 19cm x 29cm lamington tin.

  3. Step 3

    Bake in hot oven (200°C) for 30 minutes or until cooked.

  4. Step 4

    Serve dusted with icing sugar or topped with cream cheese icing and some extra chopped pistachio nuts.

Tips

  • *Note - the serving suggestions are not included in the nutritional analysis.


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