Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Name: Chocolate Beetroot Cake
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 50 min
Cuisine: Israel
Ingredients: 145 g/5¼ oz/generous 1 cup plain flour; 65 g/2½ oz/⅔ cup good-quality unsweetened cocoa powder; 1½ tsp baking powder; 200 g/7 oz/1 cup caster or granulated sugar; 200 g/7 oz/1 cup caster or granulated sugar; 2 large eggs, beaten; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 160 ml/5½ fl oz/⅔cup sunflower oil

Preparation info

Serves:
6-8
(depending on your appetite!)

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
50 min

Appears in

Babka, Boulou, & Blintzes

By Michael Leventhal

Published 2021

About

I have a fantastically sweet tooth! So, in an effort to make a sin into a virtue, I started experimenting with putting vegetables into cakes and this delicious chocolate beetroot cake is one of them. It tastes truly indulgent and it’s a good way to get another vegetable into your children.

Ingredients

145 g/5¼ oz/generous 1 cup plain flour
65

Asia
Israel
Mediterranean
Vegetarian
Cake
Jewish

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/160°C fan/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Either line an 8-hole muffin tin with paper cases, or grease and line a deep 20cm/8in round cake tin with non-stick baking paper.
Sift the flour, cocoa powder and baking powder into a mixing bowl, t