If Only All Cakes Were This Red

[hmmm_tea]

One of the great things about parties is they are an excellent excuse to bake cakes.

Having had some beetroot in this week's vegbox, I thought I'd make another beetroot and chocolate cake, but in searching for the recipe I found this instead:

Beetroot & Banana cake

• 450g self-raising white flour


• 1 generous tsp-ish grated nutmeg (completely guess as I just grated it straight in)


• 1 generous tsp ground cinnamon


• 1 generous pinch (the benefit of having large fingers) ground cloves


• 1 generous pinch ground ginger


• 275g light brown sugar


• 125g walnuts, chopped


• 2 ripe bananas, mashed


• 350g cooked beetroot, grated


• 4 medium eggs


• 300ml sunflower oil

(Would have put some coriander in too, but I'd run out. Likewise I would have put some cream cheese icing on it, but also found I'd run out of icing sugar - it didn't really need it though.)

Sift flour and spices.
Stir in sugar, nuts, beetroot and bananas.
Add eggs and oil and beat until incorporated.
Bake at 180C for around 1 hour

(tweaked from a recipe from Abel and Cole)

The cake mix was the most amazing shade of red when it went into the oven, was very disappointed when I got it out and it was pretty much the same shade of brown as a carrot cake, but with a slight red tinge. Oh well, at least it tasted nice.

There was also red wine cake, but I've already posted the recipe for that.

Oh, and, 100

Comments

[helflaed.livejournal.com]

Could be useful as I get vast quantities of beetroot in my vegbag at this time of year.

[chainmailmaiden]

Sounds nice, I've made chocolate beetroot cake a few times now and I add it to carrot cake along with courgettes too.

I like to roast beetroot along with carrots, parsnips & potatoes. If you sprinkle all the vegetables with lemon juice before cooking they're even nicer.

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Got some little ones this week, which should be excellent to roast.

They seem to roast quite nicely with cumin seeds.

[chainmailmaiden]

I'll have to try that, we like cumin. Beetroot risotto is really nice too and stays a most satisfyingly shocking pink :-)