A balanced diet is one of these in each hand: Beetroot chocolate cake
How to Make Beetroot chocolate cake
Preparation time:
less than 30 mins
Cooking time:
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves:
Serves 6
Dietary:
Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 200g/7oz butter
- 250g/9oz cooked and peeled beetroot
- 200g/7oz dark chocolate
- 4 tbsp hot espresso
- 135g/5oz plain flour
- 1 heaped tsp baking powder
- 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- 5 free-range eggs
- 190g/6½oz golden caster sugar
- crème fraîche
Method
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Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease a 20cm/8in cake tin with a little butter and line the bottom of the tin with a disc of baking parchment.
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Blend the beetroot in a food processor to a rough purée.
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Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of hot water (do not allow the bottom of the bowl to touch the water), then pour in the hot coffee.
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Stir in the butter in small pieces and leave to soften. Remove from the heat and allow to cool slightly.
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Meanwhile, sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa together in a bowl and set aside.
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Separate the eggs. Whisk the yolks in a bowl until frothy. Stir the eggs into the chocolate and butter mixture, then fold in the beetroot.
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Whisk the egg whites until still peaks form when the whisk is removed. Fold in the sugar.
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Fold the sugar and egg whites into the chocolate mixture, then fold in the flour and cocoa mixture.
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Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes, or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
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Allow to cool in the tin, then serve with crème fraîche or double cream.
