Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chocolate and beetroot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nigel Slater's beetroot and chocolate cake is a great introduction to this delicious and surprising combination. Try it with a dollop of crème fraîche. Beetroot makes this chocolate cake incomparably moist.
Chocolate and beetroot cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chocolate and beetroot cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook chocolate and beetroot cake using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate and beetroot cake:
- Get 200 g beetroot
- Take 2 medium sized eggs
- Prepare 80 g vegetable oil
- Prepare 170 g flour
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Take 100 g suger
- Prepare 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- Get 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Prepare 50 g chocolate to decorate
You may not think that beetroot and chocolate would go together but this has to be tried to be believed - the rich and Add the grated beetroot and cocoa and blend well. Finally, sift in the flour and bicarbonate of soda and mix again. Divide the mixture between the cake tins, smoothing down flat. Totally Unicorn beetroot cake. (Randy Larcombe Photography).
Steps to make Chocolate and beetroot cake:
- Preheat the oven to 360F.
- Grease or line your cake pan with parchment paper (Mine is a ring pan 8.6 x 4 inch-deep)
- Whisk your flour in a bowl with 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder and a pinch of salt.
- Place all the ingredients, except the flour, in a food processor and blend into a smooth consistency
- Add the flour in two steps, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl as necessary. Blend only for a few seconds until the flour is just combined with the rest of the ingredients, do not overmix.
- Scrape the batter into the pan, level the top and bake in the middle shelf of the oven for about 30 minutes.
- After 30 minutes check the cake by inserting a thin skewer/cake tester into the centre of the cake. If the cake is fully cooked then the skewer will come out clean, if there is still batter clinging to the skewer then return the cake to the oven for a further 3 minutes and test again.
- When the cake is ready, remove from the oven and let it cool.
- In the meanwhile melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or into a heatproof bowl placed over a pan of barely simmering water (a bain marie). Allow the chocolate to melt, stirring occasionally. Once melted leave it to set until a bit firm, but still runny.
- Remove your cake from the pan and decorate with the runny dark chocolate sauce.
- If you want to be fancy use some of the beetroot juice to make some runny icing.
Previous Next Show Grid. "If you're turning up your nose at what seems like an unlikely marriage, try it first. The combination of earthy beets, bitter with smoky dark chocolate and slightly salty cream cheese is heavenly! Fiona Cairns's chocolate and beetroot cake, a delicious cake decorated to wow your guests. For the cake, grate the beetroot quite coarsely and melt the chocolate in a bowl set over a. It works a treat, making these gluten-free cakes more rich and moist.
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