Lemon and Zucchini Cake - Real Recipes from Mums

A lovely zingy, fresh and moist cake, with the flavour of lemon – you can’t taste the zucchini in this at all!

Ingredients (makes 1 cake)

1 1/2 cups Plain flour
1/2 tsp Baking soda
1/4 tsp Baking powder
3/4 cup Sugar
pinch Salt
1 cup Finley shredded zucchini (leave all moisture in - don't remove!)
1/4 cup Apple sauce
1 Egg
2 TBS Lemon juice
1 TBS Lemon zest
FOR THE GLAZE
1 cup Icing sugar
2 TBS Lemon juice
1 TBS Lemon zest

Method

In a medium mixing bowl combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
In a separate mixing bowl combine sugar, zucchini, cooking oil, egg, lemon juice, and lemon zest. Stir to combine.
Add dry ingredients to zucchini mixture; stir just until combined.
Spoon batter into greased bread pan.
Bake at 180 degrees for 45-55 minutes or until golden brown and just set.
Cool in pan on a wire rack 15 min, then remove from pan and cool completely.
Once cool, combine ingredients for glaze and drizzle over the cake

Notes

If the cake begins to brown too much during the cooking process, loosely cover the cake with alfoil to prevent it Browning more Store in an air tight container

53 Comments

- - kay1987 said
  - 30 Sep 2023
    8:15 pm
Always looking for new and different lemon recipes as our tree is loaded every year.

- - meedee said
  - 30 Jan 2023
    11:00 am
Sounds amazing. I get a lot of lemons of a friend and am always looking for ways to use them.

- - DaffyD said
  - 28 May 2020
    12:05 pm
Looks yummy, thanks for sharing your recipe

- - mom101628 said
  - 27 May 2020
    4:22 pm
Pity that there is a difference between the ingredients and the cooking method. Otherwise I would be trying this recipe very soon. Thanks for trying to share.

- - mom321515 said
  - 12 May 2020
    10:08 pm
Unusual combo

- - rnash02 said
  - 08 May 2020
    4:40 pm
Yummy

- - tessie said
  - 08 May 2020
    12:24 pm
The ingredients call for apple sauce but the method calls for cooking oil. Bit confused but it does look great.

- - grillsp said
  - 07 May 2020
    11:32 am
the recipe asks cooking oil, but there is no cooking oil listed as an ingredient so how much do i put in???

- - rovermum said
  - 07 May 2020
    9:18 am
Ummmmm…. very interesting. Not a cake choice I had ever considered before.

- - shanika said
  - 07 May 2020
    8:15 am
I tried lemon cake.But never thought about adding zucchini.Great way to feed kids veggies.

- - samxx23 said
  - 07 May 2020
    7:58 am
My mum just gave me a whole bunch of fresh lemons off her lemon tree so definitely going to give this a go! Plus added veg for the kids, winner. Thanks!

- - rachel1970 said
  - 07 May 2020
    6:23 am
I had a lemon zucchini cake many years ago but lost the recipe, I’ll try this one, looks amazing.

- - susan chung said
  - 07 May 2020
    12:18 am
Please may I know how much oil is needed, thanks

- - littlehandsofmine said
  - 06 May 2020
    8:47 pm
A good way to at veg.

- - mom330666 said
  - 06 May 2020
    8:33 pm
Thank you for sharing. I like the addition of zucchini

- - mom460689 said
  - 06 May 2020
    8:28 pm
I love using zuccini in cakes. It adds moisture to the texture but doesn’t leave any zuccini taste. A great way to get more vegies into kids.

- - DaffyD said
  - 28 Apr 2020
    3:27 pm
Looks delicious thanks for sharing your recipe

- - Kimeeja said
  - 25 Mar 2020
    4:04 pm
So making this with the kids as part of our “home schooling”. Will make for a delicious afternoon tea snack

- - rovermum said
  - 25 Mar 2020
    12:01 pm
Hmmmm, interesting. I think I’d like someone to make this for me first!!! Interesting combination.

- - Ellen said
  - 25 Mar 2020
    8:50 am
Thanks for sharing Mum2archer