Chocolate beetroot cake
Cooking time:
1 hour 20 minutes
Active time:
30 minutes
Complexity:
Average
Everyone already knows carrot cake, have you tried beetroot? It sounds unexpected, but it's actually delicious: it makes a very rich, moist chocolate cake.
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Chocolate-beet cake recipe
Ingredients for 6-7 servings
85% bitter chocolate
200 g
chocolate bitter 58%
50 g
raw beets
250 g
chicken egg S1
3 pcs.
vegetable oil
100 ml
sugar
180 g
wheat flour
100 g
fried almonds
50 g
baking powder
1.5 tsp
salt
pinch
For glaze:
chocolate bitter 58%
150 g
sour cream 15%
100 g
sugar powder
100 g
Step 1/10
Peel and grate the beets or punch in a powerful blender. If the beets are juicy enough, squeeze slightly and drain the juice.
Step 2/10
Melt the cake chocolate in a water bath or microwave, but be sure to stir carefully so as not to overheat in the process. Chop almonds with a knife.
Step 3/10
Beat eggs and sugar at high speed with a mixer into a lush light mass.
Step 4/10
Add the flour, salt and almonds sifted together with the baking powder, mix.
Step 5/10
Add the beets, melted chocolate and vegetable oil, gently mix again with a spatula, pour into a baking dish with a diameter of 20-22 cm.
Step 6/10
Place the tin in an oven preheated to 170C on a medium level for about 50 minutes. Cover the tin with foil to prevent the top from burning. Check readiness with wooden skewer.
Step 7/10
Cool the finished cake in the mold for about 10 minutes, then remove to a wire rack and leave to cool completely.
Step 8/10
Melt the remaining chocolate in a water bath, stirring, remove from the heat. Beat sour cream at room temperature with powdered sugar, add melted chocolate and beat again with a mixer.
Step 9/10
Pour the resulting glaze onto the cake and spread with a spatula or spoon over the surface.
Step 10/10
Cake ready.
Ingredients for 6-7 servings
85% bitter chocolate
200 g
chocolate bitter 58%
50 g
raw beets
250 g
chicken egg S1
3 pcs.
vegetable oil
100 ml
sugar
180 g
wheat flour
100 g
fried almonds
50 g
baking powder
1.5 tsp
salt
pinch
For glaze:
chocolate bitter 58%
150 g
sour cream 15%
100 g
sugar powder
100 g
Nutritional value per 100 g
Calories
416 kcal
Proteins
6 g
Fats
24 g
Carbohydrates
46 g
Saturated fat
9 g
Dietary fiber
4 g
Added sugar
25 g
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