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.
