Chocolate Beetroot Cake

This has a beautiful, dark rich color- yum! It's also a great way of using up those raw beetroot your pal with the allotment gave you and you were too polite to refuse... ;)

Ingredients

• 75g cocoa powder or powdered drinking chocolate
• 180g plain flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 225g caster sugar
• 250g cooked beetroot
• 3 large eggs
• 200ml sunflower oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Icing sugar for dusting

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 180˚C / 335˚F / Gas 4.
2. Sift the cocoa powder, flour and baking powder into a bowl.
3. Puree the beetroot in a food processor. Add the eggs, one at a time and next add the vanilla and oil, and blend until smooth. Add the sugar to the mixture.
4. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add the beetroot mixture and lightly mix.
5. Pour into a greased and lined 9 inch cake tin. Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until the top is firm when pressed with a finger.
6. Cool on a wire rack and dust with icing sugar to serve.

Recipe from Riverford Organic Vegetables