A couple of weeks ago Lisa's mum baked a carrot cake which she brought into work. Yay Lisa's mum. However Stephen & Chin both expressed the view that carrot didn't belong in a cake. After some discussion it was revealed that Stephen quite liked broccoli, and after further deliberation it was decided that if I was to bake a cake containing a vegetable, it would be broccoli.
I couldn't think of any unique way to make a broccoli cake appealing so I thought I'd stick with a basic carrot cake recipe but substitute broccoli for the carrot. It seemed like a reasonable idea since broccoli is mildly sweet.
125g butter
1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tablespoon honey
1 cup self raising flour
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup grated broccoli
Since the grated broccoli stems was quite light coloured and I wanted to make sure that people noticed the broccoli I shaved the dark green tops off the broccoli and added that to the mix. :)
Baked for 30 minutes @ 200 C.
The result:
I can only describe the flavour as weird. There is a strong scent of broccoli, much stronger than I expected. That's serving to deeply confuse my mind as the taste of the cake is typically sweet but then there is broccoli. It does not make sense.
I'm sure it was more edible than, say, onion cake. However, I'd prefer parsnip cake.
Hmmm, both onion and parsnip cakes sound doable. Next time I am bored on a Sunday arvo you will have onion cake.
It actually looks ok