Recipe for Chocolate & Beetroot Cake
Sent in by: Granny Dumplin
Ingredients
- 1 and a half ozs Cocoa powder
- 4 and a half ozs Plain flour
- 1and a half tsps Baking powder
- 1 Pinch salt
- 5and a half ozs Caster sugar
- 8 and a half fl ozs Corn oil
- 1and a half tsps Vanilla essence
- 3 eggs beaten
- 1 pack or (9oz) cooked beetroot, pureed
- 4oz Plain dark choc (60% +), broken into small pieces
Method
- Preheat the oven to 375F/190C/Gas 5 and grease an (7") round cake tin.
- Sift the cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix with the sugar.
- Add the oil, vanilla essence, eggs, beetroot and chocolate pieces and mix well.
- Pour into the cake tin, put on a baking tray and bake for 50 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
Notes:
This is a lovely moist chocolate cake and it doesn’t taste of beets (promise)













2 Comments »
Hope :
Made the Chocolate and beet cake and it was horrible. It looked fantastic, but was greasy / oily and tasted the same.
Hayley :
Great cake - did not add as much oil as stated in recipe. Very light and moist