So if you follow me on twitter you may have noticed me complaining about not having much money or how I keep getting turned down for jobs like pot washer… sorry about that…. but you know what makes everything good again? That’s right the reduced section! My mum picked up an insane amount of courgettes the other day so clearly the only rational thing I Could do was bake a cake, right? AND the edible flowers are from my garden (so no great exspence there) , its been taken over by borage, but you can use any edible flowers you want. I suggest getting a book about foraging from the local libary what other things you can find that are edible (and more importantly free) in your garden or the local area. Here’s just a few edible flowers I know of- cornflowers, chive flovers, organic rose petals, artichoke flowers, dasies, dandelions, honeysuckle, sunflower petals and courgette blossums.
Ingredients:
1 banana, mashed well
3/4 cup rapeseed oil
1 tsp vanilla bean paste/ good vanilla extract
1 cup unrefined golden caster sugar
1 tsp cinamon
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp ginger
pinch o’ salt
1/2 dessicated coconut
1/2 cup almond milk
2 1/4 cup plain white flour
1/4 cup cornflour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 cups grated courgettes
For the drizzle:
1 cup icing sugar
3 tbsp lime juice
Topping:
borage flowers, or other edible flowers (optional)
1 tbsp lime zest
Method:
Grease a bundt tin with vegetable shortening and dust with flour, shake out the excess flour and preheat the oven to 180c/350f. Mash the banana really well in a mixing bowl with a fork, add the sugar, oil, vanilla bean paste, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger. Mix in the coconut and sift in the flour, cornflour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Mix the ingredients until just combined then fold in the courgette. Spoon into the bundt tin and bake for about 40-45 minutes. Cool for about 10 minutes in the tin on a wire rack, then turn out onto the rack and allow to cool completly before frosting. To make the drizzle carefully whisk the lime juice with the icing sugarand carefully spoon on top of the cake and push down the sides, sprinkle on the zest and arrange the flowers all pretty. Leave to set and enjoy!
how come you know so much about flowers me deary? You be a witch or sumfing?
Nope, Imma wizzard! A wizzard of cakes…..
THAT would be an awesome way to run a bakery! This looks lovely 🙂
It could turn out a bit like fantasia and I get attacked by enchanted baking utensils…
Ahahaha! Well we don’t want that happening.
What kind of job are you trying to find Alex? Sorry it’s been such a difficult process; it’s crappy not having enough money. Maybe you can sell cake! I’d definitely buy this one, it looks amazing! Love the borage flowers. I’ve never foraged for my own edible flowers but I’ve always wanted to. Thanks for the inspiration!
Unfortunatly I can’t sell cakes from my house and can not afford to rent a kitchen elsewhereI’m just looking for any kind of job. Foraging flowers is so easy, just make sure you forage saftly 🙂 have fun!
Thanks, I’ll do a bit of research and get foraging! Well, good luck with the search. I hope you find something soon.
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This is so beautiful! Best of luck with the job search. I know how frustrating it is but you’ll get there soon!
Lovely!
Thanks to both of you 🙂
Gorgeous looking cake 🙂
thank you 🙂
OMG! Sunflower pedals? Really? Sunflowers are one of the easiest flowers to germinate and I have over 30 plants growing in my yard right now. I never thought about eating them. Your cake looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!! Don’t worry about the job because something will eventually turn up. And I have to agree, you are a wizard! A wizard of more than just cake; all things delightful 🙂 Tiger Lilies I heard were edible too. I heard you can batter fry them although I never tried one. Good luck with your job search. I’m sending positive energy your way.
I love sunflowers but unfortunatly don’t have any in my garden
I heard about tiger lillies too, I might make my mum a choc orange cake with tiger lillie petals for her birthday as thats her favorite flavour and favorite flower 🙂
beautiful cake!!!
Thanks, bundt cakes are always beautiful!
I think I just found this years birthday cake 🙂
Ooooh do you have a budnt tin? I’m going bundt crazy, made two in two days and have plans for another!
Yes I have a bundt tin AND the will to make every single bundt that you can pump out till the urge subsides…bring it!
Bundt cakes are the best kind of cakes!
Have you seen some of those amazing bundt cake pans that make your cake look like turrets and Christmas Trees etc? They are amazing! I have enough trouble getting my regular bundt to emerge intact let alone wrangling them out of something more complicated 😉
Yeah my friend has one of them and she does a christmas gingerbread in it, I like the crazy spiral ones, I think if this new job im starting works out I will go on a bundt pan shopping spree!
A new job means less posts for us to luxuriate in BUT more amazing bundt cakes? A more than fair trade-off. Fingers crossed for the job 🙂
This looks and sounds amazingly beautiful! I love it!
Oh what a beautiful looking cake! 🙂
I’m sorry to hear that you are having trouble finding work.
I haven’t noticed any of your twitter complaints. I haven’t been on their a lot lately, but I am going to check that I am still following you.
wow… beautiful!!!
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This is BEAUTIFUL!! Looks so tasty.
Thanks 🙂