Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

From   Tea Time

Prep: 35 minutes

Cook: 30 minutes

Method: Easy

Course: Snack

Type: Fusion

A delicious cake made with combining beetroot puree with cocoa powder

Ingredients

  • Cocoa powder 4 tbsps
  • Beetroot puree 1 cup
  • Refined flour ¾ cup
  • Baking powder 2 tsps
  • Castor sugar 1 cup
  • Vanilla essence 1 tsp
  • Eggs 3
  • Oil ¾ cup
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Methods

  • Preheat the oven to 180º C. Grease a cake tin with a little oil and line it with butter paper.
  • Sift cocoa powder, refined flour and baking powder into a bowl.
  • Take beetroot puree in a mixing bowl, add castor sugar and vanilla essence and mix well.
  • Add the refined flour and cocoa powder mixture and mix.
  • Now add eggs, one by one, and beat well with an electric blender.
  • Add oil then and beat till smooth.
  • Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin. Keep the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes or till the top is firm.
  • Take the cake tin out of the oven and keep aside to cool. Demould the cake, dust icing sugar over it and cut into slices.
  • Keep the slices on a serving platter and serve.