Vegan Courgette Cake

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recipe by Kenwood https://kenwoodworld.com/

  • Time icon
    Total Time
    1hr 50mins
  • Serves icon
    Serves
    10
  • Calories icon
    Calories
    412

Use up any leftover courgettes and reduce food waste by making this delicious and flavourful vegan loaf cake drizzled with a tangy lemon icing and finished with a crunchy pistachio topping for some added crunch. This cake is dairy-free, egg-free, and is suitable for vegans. Store it covered at room temperature for up to three days.

recipe updated Nov 12, 2025

Ingredients

  • Lemon icon
    Lemon
    3
  • Pistachios icon
    Pistachios
    100 g
  • Zucchini icon
    Zucchini
    175 g
  • Vegan butter icon
    Vegan butter
    80 g
  • Golden caster sugar icon
    Golden caster sugar
    175 g
  • Oat milk icon
    Oat milk
    100 ml
  • All purpose flour icon
    All purpose flour
    170 g
  • Baking powder icon
    Baking powder
    1 teaspoon
  • Ground almonds icon
    Ground almonds
    100 g
  • Icing sugar icon
    Icing sugar
    200 g
  • Lemon juice icon
    Lemon juice
    5 tablespoons

Tools

  • kCook icon Oven
  • kCook icon Kenwood Chef
  • kCook icon Loaf pan (900g) - 20cm (8")
  • kCook icon Serving plate

Step preview

  1. Make the cake:
  2. Preheat the oven - 180ºC
  3. Grease a loaf tin and line with parchment paper
  4. Fit the K-Beater
  5. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl
  6. Mix - 3 minutes, speed 2
  7. While the machine is running, slowly pour milk and mix – 1 minute, speed 1
  8. Then add the next ingredient
  9. Add the next ingredients
  10. Mix – 1 minute, speed Min
  11. Transfer the mixture into the tin and level off with a spatula
  12. Bake until a skewer inserted comes out clean – 50 minutes, 180ºC
  13. Remove from the oven and let cool – 10 minutes
  14. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool completely
  15. Now, make the lemon icing:
  16. Clean the appliance bowl and fit the K-Beater
  17. Add the ingredients into the appliance bowl
  18. Mix - 2 minutes, speed Min
  19. Place the cake on a serving place
  20. Drizzle the lemon icing over the top of the cake
  21. Decorate with the ingredients
  22. Let set – 20 minutes
  23. Serve
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