Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chocolate and beetroot cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chocolate and beetroot cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Chocolate and beetroot cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Nigel Slater's beetroot and chocolate cake is a great introduction to this delicious and surprising combination. Try it with a dollop of crème fraîche. If you haven't yet discovered the delicious and surprising combo of beetroot and chocolate cake, this is the perfect introductory recipe.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chocolate and beetroot cake using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chocolate and beetroot cake:

1. Get 200 g beetroot
2. Get 2 medium sized eggs
3. Prepare 80 g vegetable oil
4. Get 170 g flour
5. Take 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
6. Take 100 g suger
7. Get 3 tbsp cocoa powder
8. Get 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
9. Take Pinch salt
10. Make ready 50 g chocolate to decorate

Add a pinch of salt and the rest of the ingredients, except the oil and chocolate. Beetroot makes this chocolate cake incomparably moist. Serve as is, with ice cream or top with chocolate frosting. A simple Beetroot and chocolate cake recipe for you to cook a great meal for family or friends.

Instructions to make Chocolate and beetroot cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 360F.
2. Grease or line your cake pan with parchment paper (Mine is a ring pan 8.6 x 4 inch-deep)
3. Whisk your flour in a bowl with 1 1/2 tsp of baking powder and a pinch of salt.
4. Place all the ingredients, except the flour, in a food processor and blend into a smooth consistency
5. Add the flour in two steps, stopping to scrape down sides of bowl as necessary. Blend only for a few seconds until the flour is just combined with the rest of the ingredients, do not overmix.
6. Scrape the batter into the pan, level the top and bake in the middle shelf of the oven for about 30 minutes.
7. After 30 minutes check the cake by inserting a thin skewer/cake tester into the centre of the cake. If the cake is fully cooked then the skewer will come out clean, if there is still batter clinging to the skewer then return the cake to the oven for a further 3 minutes and test again.
8. When the cake is ready, remove from the oven and let it cool.
9. In the meanwhile melt the dark chocolate in the microwave or into a heatproof bowl placed over a pan of barely simmering water (a bain marie). Allow the chocolate to melt, stirring occasionally. Once melted leave it to set until a bit firm, but still runny.
10. Remove your cake from the pan and decorate with the runny dark chocolate sauce.
11. If you want to be fancy use some of the beetroot juice to make some runny icing.

Sieve the cocoa, flour, baking powder and sugar into a large mixing bowl. You may not think that beetroot and chocolate would go together but this has to be tried to be believed - the rich cake goes perfectly with the Add the grated beetroot and cocoa and blend well. Finally, sift in the flour and bicarbonate of soda and mix again. Divide the mixture between the cake. Sift the self raising flour, baking soda and cocoa into the mixture and mix to combine.

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