My 9 year old invented a new cake yesterday. He and his father had grown some courgettes which he then decided to turn into a cake because, well, he turns everything into a cake and anyway anything vaguely green fills him with horror. So he decided to make courgette bread…but his sister wanted to make banana bread, so, they each made their own cakes and merged the third one together creating (apart from something surprisingly edible) a HUGE mess in my kitchen.
“We’ll have to call it “Baguette Bread” then” said my daughter, which we agreed sounded odd. Last night we had dinner with some Aussie mates and in Australia/America they call them “zuccini’s” instead. So it was decided that it should be called “Baccini Bread” not only because it was a combination of banana and zuccini but because we felt it could be marketed as “Bikini Bread” as it is vaguely on the healthy option scale of delicious foods to eat.
So. As it was his idea, he wrote out the recipe himself. I haven’t changed the spelling mistakes.
Here were his hand grown courgettes:-
Here is his recipe:-
BACCINI BREAD RECIPIE
INGREEDIANTS
250g plain flour
5g baking powder
2g salt
115g butter
110g fine brown sugar
2 eggs beaten
525g mashed overripe bananas
2 tsp vanilla extract
3\4 freshley grated nutmeg
2 courgette corsley grated
250ml olive oil
HOW TO COOK IT
Turn oven on to 180 C
Get a bread tin spread butter in tin to stop everything sticking
In a mixing bowl mix the flour and baking powder and salt
Stir together butter and sugar until smooth and thick when thats all done pour in to bowl then beat the eggs and pour in to bowl and mix everything together
Add mashed banana and grated courgette
Put in tin and cook for one hour – might be ready before – check by putting skewer in to middle and if clean when comes out then its cooked.
and here is the finished product…which could have done with a bit more cooking:-
Not bad eh?
If anybody dares try to make it can you let me know how it goes? Any other advice as to improvements on the recipe most appreciated.
Mud in the City
July 28, 2009Yum! Courgettes can also substitute for carrots in carrot cake (v moist you see) and, when grated, make a surprisingly good creamly sauce for pasta!
Here endeth my courgette facts.
TheBlonde
July 28, 2009I think you may as well give up thoughts of other career options now, L. He's obviously born to be a chef!
Rx
Janelle
July 28, 2009frigging AMAZING! coming from an english teacher…how old is he again?? and god that bread looks delicious…! will def try it out this side and let you know. tell him WELL DONE! ONGERA SANA, as we say here in tanzania. xxx j
Janelle
July 28, 2009oh and also meant to say LOVED the belly dancing post! BLOODY funny as always….flip. i mean NO ONE (apart from maybe another gorgeous winning belly dancer) in their right minds would get up and dance next to her…jesus. very funny post. loved it….xxx j
Working Mum
July 28, 2009Funnily enough I was looking at a courgette cake recipe today (in Nigella's "How to be a Domestic Goddess" – I live in hope)but that bread looks better. How wonderful that he makes his own recipes – very adventurous!
karen
July 28, 2009great recipe, I am most impressed!
Going back to African attire, up north where we are, quite close to Zambia, it is hot during the day and pretty cold at night… so layers are great. white things will get covered in dust probably. I can't live without warm socks in the evenings. Jeans and fleeces for the cool evenings & mornings, but you will be removing all the warm stuff during the day, I think! Cowboy hat.. definitely a must!
Expat mum
July 28, 2009I like both banana bread and courgette bread so it'd be something I'd try …. at some point!