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)
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Comments on Recipe for Chocolate & Beetroot Cake »
Hope @ 10:42 am
Made the Chocolate and beet cake and it was horrible. It looked fantastic, but was greasy / oily and tasted the same.
Hayley @ 7:50 pm
Great cake – did not add as much oil as stated in recipe. Very light and moist
Kat @ 6:12 pm
Have to agree with Hope. This cake smelled lovely and the outside tasted pretty good but we cooked it for ages and it was just an oily goo in the middle. We had to reform the middle using biscuit cutters to make mini cakes and tried to recook it – the oil that leaked out was amazing. We might be able to make brownie pieces to eat with ice-cream. I'd say more flour and a lot less oil required!
Helen @ 9:12 am
I have made this cake on many occassions and I have to say it is THE most delicious chocolate cake in the world, it has never been oily and cooked to perfection and I cover it with chocolate fudge icing, so many people ask for this recipe after tasting one I've cooked so I am not sure what has gone wrong for others.
Cannot recommend it highly enough!
helen @ 6:55 pm
i made this on friday and i love it – lovely and moist, low fat cos of the oil, great use of beetroot, got to pass it too my mum as she is keen to try it too. Very tasty
Sheila Ritchie @ 4:10 pm
Lovely cake, only I did make one or two changes having read previous comments. Only used 6ozs of Oil (I used vegetable), and I turned the oven down to 170'C after 20 mins. Proved a great success, had to make 8 copies of recipe for friends!
Tracy @ 3:29 pm
I used veg oil and only 6fl oz…… really nice and very chocolatey!!! Tried and tested on all friends and a clear success. Yummy and a good way of using up allotment beetroot rather than as a pickle!Enjoy
laura @ 3:53 pm
Made this cake on sunday for my friends they enjoyed it so much they asked for the recpie it was a clear success, it did not sound as nice as it tasted!!!!!!!!!
Lorraine @ 5:55 pm
I also only used 6 fl ozs and it was the most delicious cake I have ever made. Great success on Sunday.