Uma's Courgette Cake

Ingredients

2 ½ cups all purpose flour
½ cup cocoa
2 ½ tsp baking powder
1 ½ tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 tsp cinnamon
¾ cup butter (or 1 cup oil)
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp grated orange peel
2 cups coarsely shredded courgette
½ cup milk
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans


For the glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
3 tbsps milk
1 tsp vanilla

Method

1)    preheat oven to 350F

2)      combine flour cocoa, baking powder, soda, salt and cinnamon and set aside

3)      beat butter and sugar and add eggs and add vanilla, orange peel and courgette

4)      now stir the dry ingredients and milk including nuts

5)      bake for about 50 min

6)      mix together the glaze ingredients.  Beat until smooth and then drizzle over the cake