Gosh the lengths I go to .....

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No, not really, alright you can, please do in your comments

I was going to say

Gosh the lengths I go to to write a post ☺

Way back here when I made Pumpkin Fruit Cake, Josiekitten made a comment about another type of cake that intriuged me.

So I went looking for a recipe here

Found one for this, which I made yesterday

So I had to try it in the name of research

I only cut a small piece

Just to taste you understand

Can you guess what it is??

Ok smarties, yes it is chocolate cake

But there is a surprise ingredient - well at least one I would never have thought to put in!!!

This cake is .....

Chocolate Beetroot Cake!!!!

So yummy, so moist, so delicious and is disappearing rapidly

Ingredients

2 eggs

3/4 cup oil - make sure its good quality, because it will affect the taste

1 cup sugar

1-1/4 cups plain flour

1/4 cup cocoa

1 tsp bicarb of soda

1 tsp vanilla

1 cup tinned beetroot puree, drained, reserve liquid

Method

Beat together oil, sugar & egg

Sift together dry ingredients

Mix all ingredients together with beetroot puree until smooth

Add some beetroot liquid if too dry - I did not add any

Line a round tin with baking paper

Bake at 170C/338F for 50-60 minutes

The icing I just made, cause this family insists on cakes with icing

Just as a little fount of knowledge for those overseas.

Most Australians insist on having sliced beetroot on hamburgers and salad sandwiches!!!

There was a big up-roar when a major health, fast-food chain were going to take beetroot off their ingredients!!!

Until now it was the only way I would eat it