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Post by veggardener on Aug 28, 2006 15:43:04 GMT
Give this one a whirl!
Ingredients
1¼ oz Cocoa powder
4¼ oz Plain flour
1½ tsp Baking powder
1 Pinch salt
5¼ oz Caster sugar
8½ floz Corn oil
1½ tsp Vanilla essence
3 eggs beaten
1 pack or (9oz) cooked beetroot, pureed
4oz Plain dark choc (60% +), broken into small pieces
Method
Preheat the oven to 375F/190C/Gas 5 and grease an (7") round cake tin.
Sift the cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt into a bowl and mix with the sugar.
Add the oil, vanilla essence, eggs, beetroot and chocolate pieces and mix well.
Pour into the cake tin, put on a baking tray and bake for 50 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
This is a lovely moist cake and is doesn't taste of beetroot...promise.
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Post by Spruance on Aug 28, 2006 15:52:02 GMT
Hi David, Well, why not? We do eat Carrot Cake after all  . A friend at work who likes to watch her calories, has a coaster bearing the slogan 'Carrot Cake counts as an extra portion of vegetables'! ;D Beetroot cake must be the same! ;D Spruance |
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Post by veggardener on Aug 28, 2006 16:05:11 GMT
Hi Spruance!
As you quite rightly say, no taste of carrot in carrot cake (one of my favourites)
There is a high sugar content in beetroot making it ideal in this case.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2006 16:36:50 GMT
Oh that sounds intersting, might give it a go. (Must remember not to get the beetroot in vinegar) |
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Post by veggardener on Aug 28, 2006 17:07:50 GMT
Please do, Dee! It's really is delicious.
Never thought I'd declare my interest in cooking on a gardening board!!
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Post by isabella on Aug 28, 2006 20:31:00 GMT
Hello David, Sounds good - I think I will try it - got loads of Beetroot in the garden!
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Post by Margi on Aug 28, 2006 21:34:34 GMT
Sorry David - I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than cook with the disgusting stuff!!! Yeuch!!!!!
M xxx
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Post by veggardener on Aug 28, 2006 21:43:13 GMT
Awww! Margi, I'm sure you would like it!
The beetroot is pureed and I promise you can no more taste it than carrot in carrot cake or cheese in cheese cake.
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Post by owainglyndwr on Aug 28, 2006 21:46:12 GMT
This sounds as bad as bad as that pink daffodil looks. I'm glad I don't eat chocolate And why am I reminded of Enid Blyton and the Enchanted Woods ... I shouldn't have drank that last pint.  For a week |
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Post by Margi on Aug 28, 2006 22:07:04 GMT
David
But I LIKE carrots and I LOVE cheese, and next to those two beetroot doesn't quite cut the custard! As I believe I said before, YEUCH!!!
M xxx
PS - Using it would kind of presuppose I was going to let the stuff within 10 yards of the boundaries of my property! Seems unlikely...
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Post by jlottie on Aug 29, 2006 18:03:59 GMT
Hi DK
I'm going to give it a go, got lots of beetroot, just won't tell anyone whats in it until after they have eaten it.
Jl
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Post by Chuckles on Aug 29, 2006 18:36:28 GMT
on't do cakes but my OH's mum does so I'll be passing this on to her to make for me  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2006 15:24:01 GMT
sounds yummy .........chocolate with everything in my book ;D
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Post by veggardener on Aug 30, 2006 16:02:07 GMT
Here's one I made earlier!  |
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Post by sweetleaf on Aug 30, 2006 17:05:01 GMT
DK that cake is making me wish I hadnt pickled all my beetroot.......oh well theres always next year   |
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Post by jlottie on Sept 7, 2006 11:49:28 GMT
Hi DK, should have been at the plot today but I have been baking instead. The cake has turned out well, I made it in a square tin and it is sandwiched together with 1/2 a pint of whipped double cream and dusted with coco powder. Had a sneaky taste - lovely  Made a lot of mess with the beetroot though  |
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Post by veggardener on Sept 7, 2006 12:16:13 GMT
Hi jlottie! Well done! I like your variation.  I should have made clear just how rich it is and cream compliments it so well. Please reassure Margi and others that there is no taste of beetroot. |
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Post by jlottie on Sept 7, 2006 14:03:16 GMT
Definitely no taste of beetroot |
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Post by Margi on Sept 7, 2006 18:40:04 GMT
Sorry David, honey - that's not really the point!!!
Margi xxx
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Post by veggardener on Sept 7, 2006 19:10:32 GMT
Margi Not even 'what the eye doesn't see' .....You see, when I invite you round for tea, you'll never be quite sure, will you??? Anyway, (hang the cost) I'm planning monkfish & prawn saute delight for you - pleeese don't tell me you're gonna turn your nose up at that.  |
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Post by Margi on Sept 7, 2006 19:16:44 GMT
ROTFL, David! Sorry - I don't eat anything that's had a face! The only way I'd eat that would be if the surprise was that it had neither monkfish nor prawns in it (though I'm sure it's absolutely wonderful)!!! I'm sure you'd rustle up something marvellous with mushrooms? Don't worry - I'll give you chance to work something out before I come round for my tea!
BTW, I suppose if the beetroot wasn't within 10 yards of the boundaries of my property I wouldn't really have a leg to stand on...
Margi xxx
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Post by veggardener on Sept 7, 2006 19:28:22 GMT
PML! But monkfish are so ugly, they should be deaded.  Quite a challenge to create a meal around a mushroom (even for a fungi like me). How's about a mushroom n lentil salad??? <steam smiley> |
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Post by Margi on Sept 7, 2006 19:41:04 GMT
Sounds good to me, David, as long as there aren't any onions involved because I'm severely allergic... I love garlic though! (No, I don't understand either!!!)
Margi x
(BTW In a spirit of overwhelming charity, I've decided to ignore the 'fungi like me' comment!)
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Post by veggardener on Sept 7, 2006 19:53:27 GMT
Do you prefer them wild??? <devil smiley>
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Post by Margi on Sept 7, 2006 20:19:07 GMT
I'm surprised you had to ask, David!!!
<equally if not slightly more so devilish smiley>
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Post by obelixx on Sept 12, 2006 14:20:41 GMT
I made this cake last night after having a disaster with Plan A - courgette and apricot cake - which collapsed in a mess when I turned it on to the cooling rack. The birds are now feasting on it.
Anyway, Plan B was quick and easy to prepare and tasted delicious and the Belgians have no idea it had beetroot in it. Might tell them next time but not before Possum has finished off the rest. She thinks she doesn't like beetroot.
I used to make chocolate carrot cake to get her to eat carrots and she likes those without chocolate now.
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Post by veggardener on Sept 12, 2006 15:05:46 GMT
Hi Obelix
Glad it turned out well for you.
I'm sure you would agree it's rather rich and more appropriately used as a sweet (pudding) rather than a cake.
Absolutely yummy with double cream!!!
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Post by obelixx on Sept 12, 2006 16:59:14 GMT
Hi Mr K - you're obviously not accustomed to regular rations of Belgian chocolate and haven't tasted my chocolate carrot cake which is a form of "death by chocolate". This beetroot one is definitely just right and not too rich at all.
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Post by veggardener on Sept 12, 2006 18:03:01 GMT
Obelix As you will understand, there were no patriotism issues for me to grapple with, but I can report that I use Belgian dark chocolate. [70% cocoa and freely available in the UK] I'm afraid I do find it very rich, particularly those chocolate hot-spots inside. Yours Chocolate wimp! |
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Post by Margi on Sept 12, 2006 18:49:18 GMT
I would like to make public my sincere appreciation to Obelixx for her very wonderful carrot and chocolate cake recipe! It's absolutely blooming scrumdiddlyumptious!!! And my Mum says so too, because I made it for her birthday tea!
Margi x
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