Beetroot Chocolate Fudge Cake

February 4, 2012

Pip's un-beet-able chocolate cake, I shared most of the spoils some at work. In furnish ane of my colleagues (another Michael!) was form plenty to percentage his favourite chocolate-beetroot cake recipe amongst me. I idea of it when beetroots turned upwardly inwards our vege box too tried it out on a Sat afternoon.

This cake's portion listing is dominated past times equal weights of beetroot, chocolate too sugar. There's a bunch of other materials involved too, too those bits aren't vegan or gluten-free, but the heart too somebody ingredients accept me thinking this wouldn't last likewise hard to suit for exceptional diets. As the mention too characteristic ingredients hint at, this is a dense too fudgy cake. Having reduced the master copy quantities to suit the beetroots I had too baked it inwards a foursquare tin, this bore a hitting resemblance to a brownie - a brownie that's the perfect residual of cakey too fudgy.

I served this amongst a picayune vanilla icecream, too nosotros had some non bad beetroot brownie sundaes.

Beetroot chocolate fudge cake
(adapted slightly from a recipe shared past times my colleague Michael)

170g raw beetroot
170g nighttime chocolate
ii eggs
170g chocolate-brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-3 teaspoons maple syrup
2-3 teaspoons honey
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 loving cup apparently flour
1/6 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1/6 teaspoon salt
ii tablespoons cocoa powder
35g terra firma almonds
1/4 loving cup potent dark coffee
1 tablespoon sunflower petroleum

Preheat an oven to 160ºC. Paper-line too lightly grease a 22cm foursquare cake tin.

Peel too finely grate the beetroot; fix it aside. Gently melt the chocolate too fix it aside to cool.

In a medium-large mixing bowl, trounce together the eggs, sugar, vanilla, maple syrup too dearest until fluffy. Sift inwards the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, cocoa, crease inwards the terra firma almonds too stir until only combined. Stir through the beetroot, melted chocolate, java too oil.

When the batter is homogeneous, pour it into the cake tin terminal too bake for well-nigh thirty minutes. If the summit is starting to brown, encompass it amongst foil too bake for some other thirty minutes or more, until it only passes the skewer test. Allow the cake to cool completely earlier serving.