I had never heard of this cake before until my friend Marina (check out her fashion blog by the way it's great marina-simone.blogspot.com) requested it for her birthday cake.
I researched a bit and came up with this, i put loads of elements together, and excuse the slapdash icing job, but i can honestly say it's amazing!
With a not-to-rich chocolatey taste, and a lovely earthy back note from the beetroot, and a lovely pinky, ruby colour!
Now as you can see i made a mahoosive cake, which was about 5 layers, so don't worry I'm not going to make you make that much, just giving you the recipe to make an average to large sized cake.
Even better, it's a very simple cake to make!
Ingredients
For the Cake
2 teaspoons lemon
juice
135g beetroot,
boiled and blended (reserve some for swirling on top)
310g plain flour
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons
bicarbonate of soda
400g caster sugar
50g unsweetened
cocoa powder
285g unsalted
butter, melted
4 eggs, beaten
125ml milk
2 teaspoons
vanilla extract
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
75g cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla
extract
450g icing sugar
Method
1.Grease and line one 23x33cm, similar sized baking dish or a couple of sandwich tins. Preheat oven to 180 C / Gas 4.
2. Sprinkle the lemon juice over beetroot, and set aside.
3. Combine the flour, salt, bicarbonate of soda, caster sugar, cocoa, melted butter, eggs, milk and 2 teaspoons vanilla in a large mixing bowl. Stir in beetroot. Beat 2 minutes at medium speed of mixer, until well combined, but do not over mix. Pour into your prepared dish.
4. Bake at 180 C / Gas 4 for about 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Leave on wire rack, and allow to cool (stone cold)
5. To make the icing- : combine cream and cream cheese, 1 teaspoon vanilla. Add icing sugar, beat until fluffy.
6. Once your cake is cooled, using a palette knife, spread your frosting evenly all over the top and the sides of your cake.
7. Finally using a knife or a pastry brush, make a swirl or any other pattern of your choice, on top of your cake, using your reserved beetroot puree.
And there you have it! Beetroot and chocolate red velvet cake! i hope you enjoy this recipe, please do comment if you like the look of this recipe, want to make it, or need any help! And don't forget to go check out Marina's blog! Always here! elise xx
