Vegan Chocolate Cake with Beetroot

Prep: 15min
| Servings: 12 | Cook: 35min
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A vegan chocolate cake enriched with beetroot for extra moisture and flavor. This recipe is brought to you by Spoonsparrow.

Ingredients

  • 200 g cooked beetroot
  • 300 g spelt flour
  • 150 g ground hazelnuts
  • 40 g whole cane sugar
  • 1 pinch Vanilla powder
  • 1 tsp cinnamon powder
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 2 tsp Baking powder
  • 4 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 100 ml Soy drink (Soy milk)
  • 2 tbsp raspberry jam
  • 100 ml Rapeseed oil

Instructions

  1. 1.

    Grate the beetroot finely. In a bowl combine flour, nuts, sugar, vanilla powder, cinnamon, salt, baking powder and cocoa. Stir in soy milk and raspberry jam, then add rapeseed oil and mix until a smooth batter forms. Fold in the grated beetroot.

  2. 2.

    If needed, grease a springform pan and pour in the batter. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C (fan 160 °C; gas: level 2‑3) for about 35 minutes.