Recipe of the Week - Chocolate Beetroot Cake

It might sound strange but this is a really moist and delicious chocolate cake. It is also extremely easy to make. For best results dust icing sugar on top of the cake or served it with custard or chocolate sauce.

Ingredients

230g self-raising flour
200g caster sugar
125g unsalted butter
3 large eggs
100g drinking chocolate
100g quality dark chocolate
250g cooked grated beetroot


Method

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter and flour a rounded cake tin.

2. Sift together the flour and drinking chocolate in a bowl, then stir in the sugar.

3. In a bowl suspended over a pot of hot water, slowly melt the chocolate and butter.

4. Add the beetroot and the eggs to the chocolate and butter and mix well.

5. Once fully mixed combined the beetroot mix to the dry ingredients and stir well.

6. Pour the mix into the cake tin and bake for 50 mins until a skewer comes out clean. Leave in tin for ten minutes to cool then serve.


Article posted by Spencer Samaroo, Managing Director, Moo-Lolly-Bar
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