Chocolate & Beetroot Cake

So I’ve baked with butternut squash, have eaten lots of courgette and still need to try parsnip but the vegetable I chose to bake with this time was beetroot. I’m quite late jumping on the whole chocolate and beetroot cake bandwagon however it has always  been one of the recipes I’ve wanted to try and just never got round to doing. Therefore with a birthday coming up at work and knowing my work mate liked chocolate I found it as a perfect excuse to bake a chocolate and beetroot cake. When thinking about cakes and their lovely sweet delicious ingredients the thought of adding a vegetable to the mix doesn’t immediately sound that appealing, however due to be it good marketing, word of mouth or just wanting to try out something a bit different, vegetables in cakes has really taken off and now in pretty much all cake shops, cake parties or amazing cake events it’s pretty much guaranteed you’re going to see a vegetable cake that isn’t just carrot. Continue reading →