Chocolate Courgette Cake

Back in those dim and distant days when I was on holiday, I was browsing through Allotment 2 Kitchen and found this recipe.  At that point we still had plenty of courgettes and a friend coming over for supper.  MangoCheeks advised that this cake was particularly good warm with vanilla ice-cream, so pudding for the evening was sorted - thank you MangoCheeks.  Writing this up three weeks later, I can't of course remember exactly what I did because, as regular readers will know, I am virtually incapable of following a recipe exactly.

So this is what I think I did:

• Creamed 110g unsalted butter with 220g vanilla sugar (instead of 1 tsp vanilla extract).
• Beat in 2 duck eggs
• Sifted in 340g flour (spelt wholemeal), 2 tsp baking powder, 4 tbsp cocoa and 1 tsp mixed space.
• Mixed this in, then added 400g grated courgette.
• Stirred in 120g Greek yogurt.
• Spooned mixture into a 9" sq cake thingie and baked for about 45 mins at 180C.

The cake was dense and moist with a fragrant smell and a spicy taste.  We had it straight from the oven but as we didn't happen to have any vanilla ice-cream in the freezer, we used oriental ginger instead which made a lovely accompaniment.  The cake firmed up a bit when cold and was just as good the next day and the one after that and possibly the one after that too!