The Cheerful Insanity of Me

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.

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