Chocolate Beetroot Cake recipe

Queenie

Rachie_B wrote:

lmao ,is it actually nice ??? it sounds well bizarre lol

Yes, it is nice You can't define the mystery ingredient if you don't know what it is, but, once known, there are those who will swear blind that they can taste it! :rolleyes: The colour is something else though :rotfl:

Gingham_Ribbon

Oh WOW! I'm going to get some beetroot. That sounds so easy and yummy!

Thanks.

purplemoon

I've made the beetroot cake- and it was lovely and moist, but the recipe I had just used cocoa and not actual choc- now I have a recipe with chocolate in too which I think will be nicer! However, I've been very naughty and let beetroot go off in the bottom of my fridge (was in a veggie box).
Re: tomato soup cake- is there not onion and/ or other savoury stuff in there? Blitzed tomatoes in a cake I can understand better... Sounds very American- they use all sorts of funny prepared food in recipes.

chrisico

I recently had a glut of beetroots in my veg box and made a carrot cake using beetroot instead. A lovely pink-ish sponge with a few raisins in as well.Adding a bit of black treacle made it quite dark. Needless to say,I didn't tell my family what was in it and they seem to think that it was probably fruit cake with cherries in!
It was all gone in no time!!

Rachie_B

purplemoon wrote:

I've made the beetroot cake- and it was lovely and moist, but the recipe I had just used cocoa and not actual choc- now I have a recipe with chocolate in too which I think will be nicer! However, I've been very naughty and let beetroot go off in the bottom of my fridge (was in a veggie box).
Re: tomato soup cake- is there not onion and/ or other savoury stuff in there? Blitzed tomatoes in a cake I can understand better... Sounds very American- they use all sorts of funny prepared food in recipes.

no ,these are the ingredients for the Tomato soup cake

Ingredients

100g (3 1/2oz) butter or margarine, at room temperature
175g (6oz) soft brown sugar
295g can Campbell's Condensed Cream of Tomato Soup
150ml (1/4 pt) water or milk
300g (10oz) self-raising flour
1.25ml (1/4 tsp) grated nutmeg
2.5ml (1/2 tsp) ground cloves
5ml (1 tsp) ground cinnamon, 15 ml (1 tsp) bicarbonate of soda
225g (8oz) raisins or sultanas
100g (3 1/2oz) walnuts, chopped (optional

Ticklemouse

I've made the chocolate beetroot cake and whilst it was scrummy, I found that it was very greasy - it's quite frightening when you have to put so much oil into a cake - even if there is as much butter, the oil looks 'worse' IYKWIM. Next time I'm going to try and reduce the oil a little.

1sttimer_2

Chocolate Beetroot cake? I've never heard of this but will try this out. I have recipes for Parsnip cake, and Chocolate mayonnaise cake and they are truly scrumptious.

Not at home at mo, but if anyone want these recipes I'll post them when I get back.

Gers

Ticklemouse wrote:

I've made the chocolate beetroot cake and whilst it was scrummy, I found that it was very greasy - it's quite frightening when you have to put so much oil into a cake - even if there is as much butter, the oil looks 'worse' IYKWIM. Next time I'm going to try and reduce the oil a little.

Is there a reason why it's oil and not milk in this muffin recipe??? I often make the banana muffins given here (or adapt into other fruit) and there's no oil in it. Must be a reason.

Queenie

purplemoon wrote:

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Re: tomato soup cake- is there not onion and/ or other savoury stuff in there? Blitzed tomatoes in a cake I can understand better... Sounds very American- they use all sorts of funny prepared food in recipes.

Haven't got a soup tin/label in front of me, but yes, no doubt there will be. However, the savoury ingredients/flavours don't dominate because the amount is minimal when you compare it to the rest of the ingredients which go into the cake. Tomato Soup is actually quite a sweet flavour anyway.

Campbell's are an American company and the recipe is simply another way of using up a storecupboard basic. Resourceful and creative I think

Queenie

1sttimer wrote:

Chocolate Beetroot cake? I've never heard of this but will try this out. I have recipes for Parsnip cake, and Chocolate mayonnaise cake and they are truly scrumptious.

Not at home at mo, but if anyone want these recipes I'll post them when I get back.

Yes please, do post the recipes (I love, love, love parsnips :drool: )