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CHOCOLATE BEETROOT CAKE

Ingredients:
2 cups freshly cooked and mashed beetroot
350 grams butter
2 cups raw sugar
4 eggs
310 grams plain flour
½ cup cocoa
2 teaspoons bicarb soda

Icing:
250 grams lite cream cheese (regular is fine)
1 cup icing sugar
zest of two oranges

Method:
Peel and chop beetroot in bite sizes. Place in a saucepan with a little salt and cover with water.
Boil for 45-60 minutes or until soft. Mash and set aside.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Add eggs, one at a time.
Add beetroot and stir well.
Sift in flour, cocoa and soda.
Stir until well combined.
Transfer mixture to a greased 23cm spring form cake tin.
Bake at 180degrees C for 60 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
Allow to stand for ten minutes in the cake tin before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

For the icing, simply beat all the ingredients together until light and fluffy. Spread over cooled cake.