Sometimes we just need to eat cake!! Chocolate cake especially!
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz
This recipe is really easy to make, and knowing that there is some form of nutritious vegetable in the cake is a 'Brucie bonus'. I know lots of people aren't beetroot fans, with it's very 'earthy' flavour, however, they will never know that it's in this cake - you just can't tell. Beetroot is full of fibre and essential vitamins such as folate, vitamin C, and manganese. I can't promise that the cake will provide a large dose of these, but as one of our favourite supermarkets that inspired this recipe says,
every little helps!
50g cocoa powder
175g plain flour
1½ tsp baking powder
200g coconut sugar
250g cooked beetroot (I bought it ready steamed in a packet - save yourself the pink fingers!!)
3 medium eggs
200ml coconut oil
100g dark chocolate, finely chopped
icing sugar (for dusting)
Preheat the oven to gas 4, 180°C, fan 160°C, then grease and line the bottom of a 23cm springform cake tin. Sieve the cocoa, flour, baking powder and sugar into a large mixing bowl.
Drain and halve the beetroot, then blend in a food processor. With the machine running, add the eggs one at a time, then pour in the oil. Blend the mixture until the liquid is just smooth.
Stir the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and mix in the chopped chocolate. Pour into the tin and cook for 45 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
Remove from the oven and set aside for 10 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool. Dust the cake with icing sugar before serving.
ENJOY!!
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