So now we are closed for the time being I have a bit more time to try different cake recipes. I have made courgette cake in the past when we had a glut of courgettes. It never seemed to look the same as the photo showed taking on a mucky green colour and been "sad". ..sad as in heavy is not sad cake, which was a staple when I was young and I still love now. In fact that is what I will make next .. Sad cake and treacle which is actually the cut off pieces of pastry kneaded together and then rolled out again . Ideally it isn't too thick and you get more pieces which means more butter and treacle on it . If it is too thick it a bit on the dry side and not a treat. . When you roll the pastry out it needs to be marked all over with a fork so it doesn't have a chance to rise otherwise it may have been called happy cake and not sad cake. I bet there is not a lot of children that have never had sad cake. When I say treacle I dont mean molasses black treacle I mean Golden syrup but when I was a child only posh people called it golden syrup.
