Beetroot Chocolate Cake
August 13, 2019
Category
Baked Goodness
How to make a chocolate cake healthier?
By default, chocolate cake is by far the favorite dessert cake for the most. I have never hear anyone say “NO” to a chocolate cake. It’s that awesome.
By adding a root veggie, most desserts turn out to be good. Beetroot is one of them and provides natural sweetness to the cake.
FUN FACT – Beet juice can be used as a natural hair dye.
HEALTH BENEFITS – many nutrients in few calories, balanced blood pressure, improves athletic performance, fights inflammation, improves digestive health and many more goodness.
By default, chocolate cake is by far the favorite dessert cake for the most. I have never hear anyone say “NO” to a chocolate cake. It’s that awesome.
By adding a root veggie, most desserts turn out to be good. Beetroot is one of them and provides natural sweetness to the cake.
FUN FACT – Beet juice can be used as a natural hair dye.
HEALTH BENEFITS – many nutrients in few calories, balanced blood pressure, improves athletic performance, fights inflammation, improves digestive health and many more goodness.
Prep Time
20 minutes
Cook Time
35 minutes
Total Time
55 minutes
Notes
* You could certainly use all purpose flour, self-raising flour as well.
*You could also melt the chocolate instead of adding it as chunks.
*Instead of brown sugar, you could use caster sugar, molasses or any other sweetener.
Ingredients
- Beetroot – 1 medium sized (175g)
- Dark Chocolate – 100g
- Cocoa powder – 100g
- Baking powder – 1tsp
- Brown Sugar – 250g
- Vanilla extract – 2tsp
- Wheat flour – 200g
- oil – 200ml
- Eggs – 2
- Salt – a pinch
Instructions
- 1. Peel and boil the beetroot until soft. Cool it to room temperature.
- 2. Cut it into chunks and puree it to a soft texture.
- 3. Pre-heat the oven to 170C or 350F and grease a cake tin.
- 4. In a standard mixer, mix in the beet puree, wheat flour, brown sugar, cocoa powder, salt, vanilla extract, eggs, baking powder.
- 5. Then pour in the oil gently and mix it along.
- 6. Add in the roughly chopped dark chocolate into the mixture and give it a gentle mix.
- 7. Pour the mixture in the greased cake tin and bake it for about an hour. Once baked check it with a skewer in the center if the cake is baked through.
- 8. Cool it in a cooling rack and pour some chocolate ganache on it (optional)
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