Banana courgette blondies

I was so impressed with the chocolate courgette brownies I'd made, I decided to try making 'blondies' - brownies without chocolate, this time with banana instead. Again, you'd have no idea that these contained any courgette, and because they are free from eggs or butter they are suitable for vegans. You could almost say these are healthy cakes!

Ingredients

12 oz courgettes, peeled and grated

2 bananas, mashed

8 fl oz (1 cup) vegetable oil

1 tsp vanilla essence

4 oz caster sugar

8 tbsp golden syrup

15 oz self-raising flour

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp cinnamon

4 oz hazelnuts

Icing sugar, for dusting

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 9 x 13 inch brownie tin.
2. In a large bowl, combine the grated courgette, mashed banana, oil, vanilla, sugar and syrup.
3. Sift in the flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon and stir until well combined.
4. Fold in the hazelnuts.
5. Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 25 minutes.
6. Remove the blondies from the oven and leave to cool in the tin. 
7. Dust with icing sugar and cut into squares to serve.