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In the busy time of making the batter for the brownies, i forgot to make photos of each phase. So i only have a photo of the wet ingredients. Well, it is not that difficult. I used this recipe on Great British Chefs as a source. I left out some of the spices, the cardamom and pistachio nuts. Still is pretty good to me. I will make another photo once they are done. There are of course many more recipes for courgette (zucchini for you US people) brownies to be found. I have made other ones before. One of my favourite baking websites Joy of Baking has many different options for any type of brownie you want!

Ingredients

• 2 large eggs
• 1 packet vanilla sugar
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 160g of light muscovado sugar
• 60g of oil, flavourless, such as vegetable or rice bran, or in my case, sunflower
• 1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
• 45g of cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 130g of spelt flour, or plain flour
• 2 courgettes, or 1 large courgettes, grated
• 100g of dark chocolate chips

Method

• Preheat the oven to 175°C/gas mark 4. Grease a 20x20cm baking tin and line with baking parchment
• In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, vanilla, salt, sugars, oil and cinnamon. In another bowl, mix together the cocoa, baking powder and flour
• Sift this into the wet mixture and fold gently to combine. Fold in the grated courgettes and chocolate chips, and mix until just combined
• Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 30–40 minutes, until the batter has set and springs back when pressed in the middle. Leave to cool
• I leave the brownie to cool overnight in the fridge, i like the fudgy feel it gets then, but if you can not control yourself, slice into 16 squares straightaway and enjoy!

Apples!

I confess, this morning when i peeled and cut the apples i got from the garden, i sighed. And decided to use to of the Delcorfs new harvest i bought on the market. Because they are bigger.

The recipe i used is from smulweb.nl, a Dutch cooking website. I did do a search on duckduckgo.com for the word appeltaart, trying to find a good recipe for the Dutch appeltaart. And there i found this Italian applecake recipe. Hmm.

Ingredients

• 150 gram butter
• 150 gram sugar ( i used light brown sugar)
• 4 eggs (i only had three, i added soaked lineseed for the fourth)
• 500 gram apples
• 150 gram flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 lemon, the juice and the rind
• a bit of salt
• 1 courgette, rasped (because i have so many and this cake is for the garden)

Method

• preheat your oven to 180 ºC
• melt the butter on a low fire, keep an eye on this and put out the fire once the butter is completely melted
• peel the apples, slice them finely
• rasp the courgette over the apples
• rasp your lemon
• squeeze your lemon and put it over the apple slices
• put the sugar, salt, lemon peel and four eggs in a bowl, whisk this till it is foamy
• add the melted butter to the apples
• add the flour and the baking powder to the apples and mix
• add the apples and flour and butter to the egg mixture and mix good
• cover a 26 cm wide round springform with butter and add a spoon of flour to it and swirl it around
• put the dough in the springform
• bake for 40 to 50 minutes in the oven
• put the oven out once it is done and leave the cake inside for five minutes

Enjoy!