Ultimate Chocolate Beet Cakeness

Supermoist chocolate beet cake

Serves 4-6 cake fans

You are gonna need:

300g boiled beets

250g of fine dark chocolate (70%)

1/4 cup hot espresso

150g of butter

1 cup + 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour

1 1/4 teaspoons baking powder

3 tablespoons good quality cocoa powder

5 eggs

Seeds of one vanilla bean

1 cup of superfine sugar

Heavy cream and some grated chocolate to serve

Drop them beets yo!

Lightly butter an 8-inch cake pan and line the base with a round of baking parchment. 

Heat the oven to 195 degrees C. 

Process the pre boiled beets in a blender or food processor until a coarse purée. 

Melt the chocolate, broken into small pieces, in a small bowl set over a pot of simmering water. Don’t stir. When the chocolate looks almost melted, pour the hot espresso over it and stir once. 

Melt the stick of butter in a small pot and add to the melted chocolate. Sift together the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Separate the eggs, putting the whites in a large mixing bowl. Stir the yolks together. Now remove the bowl of chocolate from the heat and stir until the butter has melted into the chocolate. Let sit for a few minutes, then stir in the egg yolks. Do this quickly, mixing firmly and evenly so the eggs blend into the mixture. Add in the beets. Whisk the egg whites until stiff, then fold in the sugar. Fold the beaten egg whites and sugar into the chocolate mixture. Finally, fold in the flour and cocoa. Transfer quickly to the prepared cake pan and put in the oven, decreasing the heat immediately to 180 C. Bake for 40 minutes. Set aside to cool for a hour or two. Serve in thick slices, with crème fraîche grated chocolate on top.

In other news Pluto is still not a planet, we had a super nice laid back weekend (slept for most of the saturday). Panda got to bake another cake (even tho Bear made her best "ewwwww!" face when she found out that there will be veggies in that cake) and we tried to go to the cinema which ended up both of us standing in front of the screens trying to decide what to watch. Since Rio was sold out we bailed. Here's a pic of us that I'm quite sure won't make it into the post because Bear is gonna remove it while she checks my text for typos. :D

Peace on the outside, beets in the inside.