Chocolate Beetroot Cake
Serves 8-10
Ingredients
Cake:
- 80gm cooked beetroot
- 1 1/2c sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2/3c cocoa
- 4 scoops Red Shot
- 100gm butter
- 100gm dark chocolate, chopped
- Pinch salt
- 1 1/3c flour
- 1 ½ t soda
- 1 1/2c milk
- Berries to decorate
- Extra chocolate to decorate
Ganache:
- 200gm dark chocolate, chopped
- 175ml cream
Method
- Preheat the oven to 160deg.
- Line a 24cm cake tin with baking paper and oil spray.
- Place beetroot into a food processor and blitz until pureed.
- Melt the chocolate and butter together and stir until smooth.
- Add all the other ingredients to the beetroot and pulse to combine.
- Lastly, add the melted butter and chocolate and pulse until combined.
- Pour into the prepared tin and bake for 50- 60 mins until cooked when tested with a skewer.
- Set aside to cool.
- While the cake is cooling, prepare the ganache by heating the cream until boiling point.
- Take off the heat and pour over the chocolate and leave to sit for 5 mins to warm the chocolate through.
- Whisk until smooth and leave on the bench to cool until it reaches a spreading consistency.
- Remove the cooled cake from the tin and place onto a serving plate and spread over the ganache.
- Decorate as desired and serve at room temperature.
Note: this recipe also works well for individual cakes.

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