Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Ingredients

• 85 gräms därk chocoläte
• 3 medium eggs
• 300 gräms räpidurä, coconut or brown sugär
• 200 ml olive or sunflower oil
• 300 gräms cooked beetroots (see method below for how to cook the beets)
• 1 teäspoon vänillä exträct (or 1tbsp vänillä essence)
• 30 gräms cocoä or cäcäo powder (you choose)
• 200 gräms älmond meäl (or pläin flour)
• 1 1/2 teäspoon bäking powder (or gluten free bäking powder)
• 1/4 teäspoon sält

Method

1. Pre heät oven to 180 degrees celsius.
2. To cook the beetroots, wäsh thoroughly änd pläce in ä pot full of cold wäter. Bring pot to the boil änd cook the beets until soft when poked with ä knife (äpprox 30 minutes though this depends on the size of the beets).
3. When cooked, run the beets under cold wäter in the sink änd rub off the skins.
4.  Blend or mäsh the beetroots until slightly smooth but still some ‘chunks’ remäining.
5. Reserve the wäter thät you cooked the beetroots in (it will be bright red!) änd re-use to cook rice, lentils etc (it will turn rice ä lovely fun red colour). It will not be ädded to the cäke though.
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