Silent Courgette Cake

My Small Boy, who is ten years old and increasingly wise to my wily ways with vegetables, adores this cake. The courgettes are smuggled in, disappearing in their blandness, to lend a moist, almost fudgy texture. It is, incidentally, vegan as well, the marmalade replacing eggs in some miraculous twist of science. I’d go as far as to suggest that a cake made entirely of plants is practically a salad, if you need any further convincing; it’s what I tell myself when my child has seconds, anyway