Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Cardamon Frosting

Chocolate Beetroot Cake with Cardamon Frosting

This recipe can be used to make a cake or muffins. Enjoy.


Ingredients
Butter to grease
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/4 cup hot water
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 beetroots, peeled and grated
1/2 cup of milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cup self raising flour, sifted

Frosting
1 cup icing sugar
pinch of cardamon
4 1/2 tsp milk

Method
1) Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius
2) Grease a cake or muffin tin
3) Place cocoa powder and hot water in a bowl and mix until combined. Add the sugar, eggs, and stir in beetroot.
4) Combine the milk, oil and vanilla in a jug  and add to beetroot mixture. Fold half of the beetroot mixture into the flour. Once combined, fold in remaining beetroot mixture.
5) Spoon into the cake tin or muffin tin.
6) Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. (Bake for 45 -55 minutes for muffins)
8) Allow to cool for 5 minutes then turn out onto a rack to cool.
9) Mix icing sugar, cardamon and milk in a bowl. Spread onto cake or muffins.

Recipe taken from Taste.com.au.