Chocolate & Beetroot Cake
- Cake Ingredients
- 1 beet
- 200 grams butter, softened
- 4 eggs
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- 3 tablespoons philadelphia cream cheese
- 2 1/2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1/2 cup cacao powder
- 2 teaspoons vanilla powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/3 cup erythritol (or any type of sweetener or brown sugar)
- 1/2 cup chocolate bark, crushed
- Chocolate Sauce
- 1 cup milk chocolate, melted
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted
- Preheat oven at 180C
- Wrap the beetroot in alluminum foil and roast for 50 minutes
- Let it cool. Then peel by scraping skin with the foil. puree in blender
- In a mixer with the flat beater attachment combine the butter, beetroot puree, eggs, maple syrup, philadelphia cream cheese and heavy cream. Mix well until well combined
- In a separate large bowl combine all the dry ingredients together. The almond flour, coconut powder, cacao powder, vanilla powder, salt and erythritol
- Slowly pour the dry ingredients in the wet mixture and mix until combined
- Use a spatula to stir in the mixture the chocolate bark
- Butter & dust with almond flour a medium sized rectangular cake baking pan, or line it with baking sheet
- Pour the mixture in the baking pan
- Bake for 35 minutes at 180C
- For chocolate sauce: In a low heat saucepan melt the milk chocolate and the coconut oil for 5 minutes. Drizzle over the cake, and enjoy!
ingredients, beet, butter, eggs, maple syrup, philadelphia cream cheese, heavy cream, cacao powder, vanilla powder, salt, erythritol, chocolate bark, chocolate sauce, milk chocolate, coconut oil
Taken from food52.com/recipes/80826-chocolate-beetroot-cake (may not work)