Courgette and Pine Nut: Recipe 1

I was slightly confused as to why any author would put a recipe like this as the very start of their book - sounds good for pasta, but less good for cake. Perhaps Gail Wagman (authoress of Cupcakes Galore) wanted to show how 'out there' and 'with it' the book is ...

SO I grated my courgette and made my cakes - mixture quite green. Forgot that I had no scales, no used guessing as a means to measure the ingredients. I made fairy cake size ones - a few burnt on the bottom and then I tasted one - CHEESY I thought, oh dear

Part of the task is to make the special frostings as well - this one was Cream Cheese frosting. As usual I made my icing mistake and managed to use too little sugar. Runny. But tasty. Decorated with a few pine nuts - classy!

So, I thought they were cheesy what did others think - Wagman says of the cakes:

"One way of using up courgette and getting your kids to eat it too. They'll never know but they will surely ask for seconds. And it will be a great hit with adults as well."

So I have no children, but tested them on the next best thing - boys. and kittens.
Erin - "really good"
Carl - " they're nto chocolate
Nicky - "i could eat a hundred of these"
Kittens ate the icing off the top of half a dozen, but not the cake. clearly cats like icing, not cake.

On the Daisy-ometer "pretty good - NOT cheesy, other than purposeful creamcheesey"

So, all in all, I might not have been a fan of my first try, but others were - and that's the important thing