Recipe Name: Blitz & Bake Beetroot & Chocolate Cake
Yield: 1 loaf size cake (Can not double as it won't fit)
Disclaimer: There has been much discussion on the combination of chocolate and beetroot, but I couldn't find any recipes here, so I went searching.
This is what I found - perfect for converting. Not the prettiest cake in the world, but definitely worth making. This is my new favourite special occasion cake - not because it's hard, but because it's very rich.
The result is amazing - you need to be pretty hard core chocolate - it is very rich, dark and dense - serve in small pieces, with something a little light to cut through the strength of the cake.
The conversion is very rough, as I was quite distracted when cooking. But the result was fantastic, and I wanted to share.
Ingredients:
1 large cooked beetroot , about 175g in weight, roughly chopped
100 gram dark chocolate
200 gram plain flour
100 gram cocoa powder
1 Tbs baking powder
250 gram rapadura
3 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
200 ml oil
crème fraîche or clotted cream, to serve
1. Peel and roughly chop the beetroot and cook in the basket. Varoma approximately 15 minutes - test with a knife.
2. Set the beetroot aside to cool.
3. Grate the chocolate and set aside.
4. Preheat the oven to 190C.
5. Blitz the beetroot until thoroughly chopped. Add the rest of the ingredients, except the oil and chocolate. When completely mixed (you may need to scrape the sides down once or twice), add the oil in a steady stream, as if you were making mayonnaise.
6. When all the oil has been added, stir in the chocolate, then tip the mix into a lined 900g loaf tin. Cook for 1 hr until an inserted skewer comes out practically clean. leave the loaf to cool on a rack. Serve in slices with the crème fraîche or clotted cream.
Source
Web Page:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7663/blitzandbake-beetroot-and-chocolate-cakemembers' commentsThermomixer - Thanks CB79. Might have to try your method.
I have made beetroot and chocolate cake with the TMX. I actually didn't bother peeling the beetroots (too lazy), just washed and roughly chopped before blitzing them prior to cooking with small amount of water and salt, rather than in the steamer basket.
Then once cooked (probably about 10 mins) just added the chocolate and cocoa and sugar and mixed before adding eggs and then SR flour. Similar to the beetroot and choc puddings methods with some flour.
Chookie - Very easy and very chocolatey. Thank you. The top lifted up above the mass of cake, (probably because I put it in a round tin), so cut it off and covered it in cream and raspberries and ate it for afternoon tea. Tomorrow it will be a birthday cake.
VHJ - Great cake Cathy79. I used Thermomixer's suggestion of chopping & cooking the beetroot first then adding chocolate, sugar and essence and mixing before adding the flour & eggs.
