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Beetroot cake with orange frosting

  • Hands-on time: 25 mins
  • Time to make: 1 hr 10 mins
  • Serving: 12 people
Ratings: 4.5
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cups (200g) flour
    • ¾ teaspoon baking powder
    • ¾ teaspoon baking soda
    • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
    • ¼ teaspoon salt
    • 1 cup soft brown sugar
    • 3 eggs
    • ½ teaspoon vanilla essence
    • ¾ cup oil
    • 2 cups grated beetroot
    • ¼ cup apple purée
    • 1 orange, zest
    • Icing
    • 5 tablespoons icing sugar
    • 1 orange, rind curls and juice
    • 175g extra-light cream cheese spread
    • 2 passionfruit, pulp
    • fresh mint, to decorate
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Grease and line a 23cm-round cake tin base with greaseproof paper. Preheat oven to 180°C.

    2 In a bowl, sift flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon and salt. Add sugar.

    3 In a separate bowl, beat eggs together with vanilla and oil and pour into flour mixture. Beat until smooth. Add beetroot, apple purée and orange zest. Beat again.

    4 Spoon into prepared tin. Bake for 35 minutes. Turn oven down to 170°C and cook for 10 more minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted. Cool cake completely before icing.

    5 To make icing, beat icing sugar with orange juice. Beat with cream cheese until smooth. Spread over top of cake. Decorate with orange curls, passionfruit pulp and mint.

    HFG tip

    Use a reduced-fat spread with no less than 60 per cent fat to ensure no difference in taste or texture.

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