Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, chocolate and beetroot cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. 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. A simple Beetroot and chocolate cake recipe for you to cook a great meal for family or friends.
Chocolate and beetroot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Chocolate and beetroot cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have chocolate and beetroot cake using 10 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chocolate and beetroot cake:
- Get 200 g beetroot
- Make ready 2 medium sized eggs
- Take 80 g vegetable oil
- Make ready 170 g flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 100 g suger
- Take 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- Get 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready Pinch salt
- Make ready 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.
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