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Chocolate and Beetroot Cake
Ingredients
- 1 large Beetroot Roughly Chopped
- 200 g Plain Flour
- 100 g Cocoa Powder
- 1 tbsp Baking Powder
- 250 g Brown Caster Sugar
- 3 – Eggs
- 2 tspn Vanilla Extract
- 200 ml Sunflower Oil
- 100 g Dark Chocolate Chopped
- Cream To Serve
Instructions
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Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Tip the beetroot into a food processor and blitz until chopped. Add a pinch of salt and the rest of the ingredients, except the oil and chocolate. When completely mixed add the oil in.
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When the oil has been added, stir in the chocolate, then tip the mix into a lined 900g loaf tin. Cook for 1 hr until an inserted skewer comes out practically clean. Leave the loaf to cool on a rack. Serve in slices with cream.
Kate
August 1, 2018Sounds yummy!
admin
August 1, 2018Thank you, Kate, it was delicious.
susiesopinions
August 2, 2018I love both ingredients .
admin
August 2, 2018Me too, Susie, the best of both worlds
Hope
August 4, 2018WOW! It looks delicious. I have never heard of it. Wish you were my neighbor!????
admin
August 4, 2018It is delicious and I don’t feel so bad eating it as I know it contains Beetroot. To be honest, I thought it might be a strange, acquired taste, but I was wrong, it’s beautiful.
inesephoto
November 2, 2018What a great idea! Wouldn’t think of adding beetroot. Brilliant!
admin
November 2, 2018Thank you, I must admit when I first came across it I was surprised. I was even more surprised how delicious it is.
Patricia Furstenberg
December 12, 2019Chocolate and beetroot – I love it! Feeling less guilty 🙂 Two thumbs up!