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Title: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: cookie1 on January 23, 2011, 06:12:34 am

I made this the other day and we really enjoyed it. It has a lovely flavour. I made it in a 20cm round tin.
Tweaks
The walnuts were to be chopped for 15 seconds, this turned them into walnut butter. I liked the idea but if you wanted pieces of walnut you would need to do less time.
I chopped the dates for only 5 seconds as I wanted pieces of date in the mix.
Rating     5/5

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: Chelsea (Thermie Groupie) on January 23, 2011, 09:43:54 am

Gosh I can't ever remember seeing this recipe before.  I am going to dig out my book tonight and have a look.  Thanks for the great review.  :)

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: knittercook on February 20, 2012, 03:33:04 am

I made this today and it is deeeeelicious  :D  Didn't change a thing and it was ok, but as cookie1 said if you like to have a bit of crunch with your walnuts and dates etc. do as she said.  I like the texture as is, plus the teens are fussy and possibly wouldn't eat bits  :-\

Bumping this recipe review up as we all are probably wondering what to do with our zucchinis atm that our gardens are producing  :)

Sharon

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: cecilia on April 25, 2013, 04:22:13 pm

Thanks to the great reviews, I'm making this one ths weekend.  Looking forward to tasting it.  :)

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: Denzelmum on January 19, 2014, 04:03:18 am

I made this with pecan instead of walnut and cut down sugar to 95gr.  Enjoyed by all.

Title: Re: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: Jamberie on January 19, 2014, 10:47:26 am

Thanks for the reminder about this one. ..our zucchinis are about to take off so this will be a handy recipe :)

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: Jamberie on January 23, 2014, 03:27:40 am

Yummy! But very sweet (although I rarely cook/eat cakes so most things are sweet for me), I think the raw sugar/date combination does it. Like Cookie, next time I might not blitz the walnuts for quite so long.
I liked that it used a reasonable amount of zucchini (210g) particularly as I have A LOT of it at the moment :)
I made it in a small bundt tin and the cake had a chunky but light crumb. I intend to freeze it in portions.
Sorry the picture is quite dark, it looked fine on my phone!

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: judydawn on January 23, 2014, 03:48:51 am

It looks very nice Jams.

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: Chelsea (Thermie Groupie) on January 24, 2014, 01:03:50 am

After reading the reviews I made this one earlier in the week.  We all really enjoyed it.  My DS wasn't initially keen because he saw a fleck of green in it ("what is Mummy feeding me now!!!"), but the yummy taste won him over. :-)

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: mab19 on September 14, 2015, 07:00:54 am

I made this today for the latest challenge.

The walnuts were chopped for 15 seconds and became like butter, this seemed like a long time to me and I think next time I will reduce the time.  I also reduced the sugar to 100g ( I do this in most tmx recipes).  I cooked it in a loaf tin instead of a cake tin at the suggested temperature and it took a lot longer to cook, that maybe because of my oven as everything seems to take longer.

All this said we liked the cake and I would make it again.

Title: Re: Zucchini Cake A Taste of Vegetarian Cookbook
Post by: cookie1 on September 14, 2015, 12:20:27 pm

I thought the same thing about the walnuts mab.