I recently made this super fluffy, perfectly delicious lemon and pistachio cake as a post hike treat and I loooove how green it turned out! :) This cake is naturally coloured by pistachios and spinach, so works completely without any food colourings etc. - and don't worry, you won't be able to taste the spinach :)

Here's what you'll need:

For the icing:

Defrost the spinach and mix with apple cider vinegar, plant milk, maple syrup and pistachios. Puree the mixture until it looks like a green smoothie :)

In a seperate bowl mix together the dry ingredients: flour, sugar, baking powder salt and bicarbonate of soda.

Into the dry mixture, poor your "smoothie" as well as the lemon peel and melted margarine. Mix until it forms a creamy, greeny batter.

Grease a cake tin well (mine is 21x11cm) and add your batter to it. Alternatively you can line your cake tin with greaseproof paper. Pour in the batter and bake in a preheated oven for 50 - 60m minutes.

Leave to cool in the tin, before turning and decorating the cake with your icing and pistachio topping :)

There you go! This is obviously a sweet treat but pistachios are also good protein sources so let's call this a healthy-ish sweet treat? :) Let me know if you make this at home and tell me how you liked it :)