Sweet Beetroot Cake
A sweet beetroot cake is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the box cake category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- butter (for the baking pan)
- flour (for the baking pan)
- 2 beetroot (about 400 g)
- 80 g dark chocolate
- 150 g flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 50 g ground almonds
- 1 tsp gingerbread spice
- 120 ml plant oil
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 3 eggs
- 0.5 tsp Salt
- 200 g brown sugar
- 50 g chopped walnuts
- 1 untreated orange
- 175 g powdered sugar
- 1 tbsp poppy seeds
Instructions
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1.
Preheat the oven to 180°C fan. Grease the baking pan with soft butter. Sprinkle a little flour evenly over the whole pan and tap off any excess flour.
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2.
Peel the beetroot, trim the ends, wash, dry and grate finely (best done with a food processor as it splashes). Roughly chop the chocolate.
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3.
Combine the flour with baking powder, almonds, gingerbread spice, oil, cocoa, eggs and salt. Fold in the grated beetroot, chocolate, sugar and walnuts. Pour into the prepared pan.
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4.
Bake in the preheated oven for 45-50 minutes (check with a skewer).
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5.
Remove from the oven, let cool about 15 minutes, then unmold onto a cooling rack to finish cooling.
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6.
Wash the orange hot, dry it and grate its zest finely on a grater. Then squeeze the orange to extract juice.
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7.
For the glaze whisk powdered sugar, 3-4 tbsp orange juice and the zest until smooth. Spread over the cake and sprinkle with poppy seeds before serving.
