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)
Filed under All Recipes, Beetroot, Granny Dumplins, Vegetable Recipes, Vegetarian Recipes by Val
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!