Chocolate Beetroot Cake
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: serves 12
 
*To roast beetroot for cake: wash 2 large beetroots and wrap each in tin foil. Bake at 350 degrees for 40-50 minutes, or until soft. Let cool in tin foil. Once cool, unwrap and peel skin away. Finely grate to be used in cake batter.
Ingredients
  • FOR THE CAKE:
  • 1½ cups Flour (all-purpose or whole wheat)
  • 1½ cups Sugar
  • ¾ cup Cocoa Powder
  • ¾ teaspoon Himalayan Pink Salt
  • 1½ teaspoons Baking Powder
  • ¾ teaspoons Baking Soda
  • ¾ teaspoons Espresso Powder
  • 2 Eggs
  • ⅓ cup Vegetable Oil
  • ½ cup Milk
  • 1½ teaspoons Vanilla
  • ¾ cup Boiling Water
  • 1 cup finely grated roasted beetroot*
  • FOR THE FROSTING:
  • 12 ounces Grass-fed Butter, softened
  • 1 tablespoon Vanilla
  • ¼ cup Cocoa Powder
  • 3 cups Powdered Sugar
Instructions
  1. FOR THE CAKE:
  2. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three 6" round baking pans(or two 8" round pans).
  3. Place the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder, baking soda, and espresso powder in a large bowl and whisk to combine.
  4. Add the egg, oil, milk, vanilla, and water to the dry ingredients and whisk in just until smooth, Add the grated beet and stir in just until combined.
  5. Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans and bake in the preheated oven for 25-30 minutes, or until puffed and firm on top and a tester inserted into the middle comes out mostly clean, with a few moist crumbs attached.
  6. Remove and let cool completely. Remove cakes from pans.
  7. FOR THE FROSTING:
  8. Place the butter in a large bowl along with the vanilla and cocoa powder. Beat with an electric mixer until the vanilla and cocoa are well combined. Beat on low, adding the powdered sugar a few tablespoons at a time, until all of the sugar has been whipped in. Scrap the bowl down, turn the speed up to medium, and beat the frosting for another 30 seconds.
  9. Use frosting to frost between and around cake layers. Garnish as desired.
  10. Store covered at room temperature for a few days, or refrigerate for up to a week.
Recipe by The Kitchen McCabe at https://www.thekitchenmccabe.com/2020/10/11/chocolate-beetroot-cake/