

Beetroot chocolate blitz cake
(at time of publication)
Ingredients
- spray oil
- 1 cup (200g) roughly chopped cooked beetrootbeetsX
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 200g flour
- 100g cocoa powder
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 175g castor sugar
- ½ cup apple purée
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 175ml sunflower oil
- 75g dark chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon icingfrostingX sugar, sifted
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Instructions
1 Preheat oven to 190ºC. Lightly grease a 24cm-round loose-based cake tin. Finely chop beetroot in a food processor.
2 Add all the remaining ingredients except oil, chocolate chips and icing sugar. Process until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl as you go.
3 Scrape down sides once more and gradually add oil.
4 Once all oil is added, stir in chocolate. Spoon into cake tin. Bake for 45-55 minutes or until firm to touch. Cool before turning out. Sprinkle with icing sugar. Serve.
Variations
Make it gluten free: Use gluten-free flour, baking powder and cocoa. Check chocolate chips and icing sugar are gluten free.
Nutrition Info (per serve)
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Calories 259cal
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Kilojoules 1080kJ
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Protein 4g
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Total fat 14g
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–Saturated fat 3g
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Carbohydrates 25g
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–Sugars 17g
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Dietary fibre 2g
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Sodium 190mg
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Calcium 30mg
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Iron 1mg
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This is so easy to make – thrown home everything in the blender. And what’s more, it came out really moist. Definitely will make again.