Chocolate Beetroot Cake recipe

thifty

Hi
Am sick of pickling and eating my beetroot and wondered if anyone could post HFW's (or anyone else's) receipe please?
Many thanks
Thrifty

BlimusOreilly

This is my family's favourite chocolate cake ever!

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 oil
• 1and a half tsps Vanilla essence
• 3 eggs beaten
• 1 pack or (9oz) cooked beetroot (grated)
• 4oz Plain dark choc (60% +), broken into small pieces

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 375F/190C/Gas 5 and grease an (7") round cake tin.
2. Sift the cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix with the sugar.
3. Add the oil, vanilla essence, eggs, beetroot and chocolate pieces and mix well.
4. 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)

bellamonkey

I can recommend beetroot brownies - absolutely lovely, didn't last long in our house. Founds the recipie on the BBC Good Food website

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search.do?keywords=beetroot+chocolate+cake&x=0&y=0&filterItem=&filter

sillyinthepast

i have used http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7663/blitzandbake-beetroot-and-chocolate-cake it's stunning it gives it a kind of berry taste which is unusual. hubby actually didn't believe me that I out beetroot in there.

MrsEm

Hi Thrifty,
Hope someone else will have that recipe for you shortly, have only just registered despite lurking on the forums for ages tho & spied your post - found a fab & v simple beetroot recipe the other day tried on Sunday & went down a storm - thought I'd share...

Beetroot, Dill & Feta frittata
Cook 1 onion (sliced) in 2tbsp oil in small frying pan til golden. Layer beetroot (asks for 2 cooked & sliced but I used half a jar of pickled rinsed thoroughly), feta (100g) and dill (handful) then pour 4 beaten eggs over. Cook for couple mins then grill to set the top -was delicious and a good way to use up beetroot!
Hope you don't mind it's not exactly what you asked for!

valentina

http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall/chocolate-and-beetroot-brownies-recipe_p_1.html

Hugh's recipe

zippychick

Hi Thifty

I've merged this with our current beetroot chocolate cake thread

thanks
zip

life_in_termoil

Has anyone tried it?

Been sorting through the fridge and have some prepacked beetroot that needs using up. I saw a recipe for it a while ago and just wondered what it was like?

Callie22

Ifyou get a decent recipe then it tastes just like an ordinary chocolate cake. The beetroot keeps it a bit more moist and gives it a slightly darker colour, but you don't really taste it. I can't say it's one of my favourite cakes (but then I'm not a beetroot fan ) but if you don't know what you're eating then it's fine. There's a recipe here if you need one

Ladyhawk

sounds like a red velevet cake... yum!