Chocolate and Beetroot Cake

Name: Chocolate and Beetroot Cake
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 100 g soured cream; 150 g dark chocolate; 100 g icing sugar; 250 g beetroot; 200 g self-raising flour; 200 ml sunflower oil; 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 250 g caster sugar; 2 tbsp cocoa powder; dark chocolate for grating; icing sugar for dusting; 3 large eggs

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Café Cooking

By Gillian Veal

Published 2024

About

Beetroot gives this cake a wonderful dark colour, a rich flavour and a beautiful moistness. It tastes amazing but surely it’s good for you too?

Ingredients

For the Cake

250 g beetroot
250 g caster sugar
3

Europe
United Kingdom
Cake
Vegetarian
London

Method

Boil the beetroot in water until it’s tender to the point of a knife, about 30 minutes. Drain and allow it to cool, then remove the skin and coarsely grate the beetroot.

Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan). In a medium-sized bowl whisk the sugar, eggs and oil t