Zucchini Cake

Prep: 20min
| Servings: 18 | Cook: 1h
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Savory dessert: Zucchini cake is perfect for gifting, bringing along, and snacking.

Ingredients

  • 200 g zucchini
  • 200 g Flour
  • 80 g cornmeal
  • 1 pinch salt
  • Cinnamon
  • 1 pinch cloves powder
  • 10 g fresh yeast
  • 80 g sugar
  • 50 g ground walnut kernels
  • 25 g pine nuts
  • 50 g Raisins
  • 75 g powdered sugar
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Wash, peel, and grate the zucchini. Mix with flour, cornmeal, salt, cinnamon, and cloves. Create a well in the center, crumble the yeast into it, and stir in 1 tsp sugar, 5 tbsp lukewarm water, and a little flour. Cover and let rise for 10 minutes.

  2. 2.

    Toast walnuts and pine nuts in a dry pan until fragrant. Add the remaining sugar and raisins to the flour mixture and knead everything together for 5 minutes. Cover and let rise for 30 minutes.

  3. 3.

    Preheat the oven to 175 °C (fan 150 °C). Grease and dust a baking tin with flour. Pour the dough into the tin and bake on the lower rack for 1 hour.

  4. 4.

    For the glaze, mix powdered sugar with lemon juice and spread over the cake.