Beetroot Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients

200g beetroot
150g dark chocolate, roughly chopped (skip the ginger below and use a dark bar with ginger!)
1 tbsp freshly grated ginger
½ tsp ground cardamom (optional)
125g plain flour
1½ tsp baking powder
150g caster sugar
200g unsalted butter, at room temp
3 large eggs
100g mascarpone cheese for the icing, if you're topping it
200g full-fat cream cheese
75g icing sugar, sifted
An orange for zesting the top

Prep: 20 mins | Cook: 90 mins

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Method

1. Roast or boil the beetroot till tender (takes about an hour). Remove the skin. Roughly chop then purée. This can be done in advance.

2. Preheat your oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/Gas 4. Pop the chocolate and beetroot into an oven-safe glass or metal bowl. Set it in the warming oven just till the chocolate is melted – it takes just a few mins, so check often.

3. Fold the melted chocolate and beetroot together. Add the ginger (and cardamom, if using). Set aside to cool.

4. Sift the flour, baking powder into a large bowl and add a pinch of salt. Separate the eggs. Whisk the yolks with the butter and sugar till pale and creamy. Whisk the whites till stiff and meringue-like.

5. Gently fold the yolk mix into the flour. Then fold in the whites, a little at a time. Gently stir in the chocolatey beetroot mixture.

6. Grease an 18½cm cake tin with butter, then dust with enough flour to coat. Add the mix. Bake for 50 mins, till a skewer comes out clean. It will be moist, almost fudgy in the middle.

7. Stand for 10 mins. Turn out and cool on a rack. If you're icing on the cake, fold the mascarpone, cream cheese and sifted icing sugar together. Slather over the top of the cake. Grate over the zest of an orange, if liked. Serve in slices.

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This cake will keep for a couple of days in the fridge.

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Rating

A lovely taste, there is a slight hint of cardamom and really you can't taste the beetroot or the chocolate much but everything works so well together to give a delicious and unique taste with a and light texture. and brown with a hint of red colour.

Anna

My children loved this.moist and delicious.

Kath

I won our street's Bake Off competition with this recipe last week! 15 cakes, some very elaborate but this stood out to the judges!

Casscoz

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