Chocolate beetroot cake...

[Strumpet]

That would be great

 

[sheothebudworths]

No purple poo!

Not that I noticed anyway....

The cake was LOVELY!!!

Lovely and moist and chocolatey - I will definitely make it again.

My son didn't notice the beetroot either (I think the flavour just completely matches the chocolate - earthy and deep - so that it becomes indistiguishable) and said it was delicious...even after I told him it had beetroot in it.

BUT - my 'icing' was basically just a strawberry fool which tasted lovely (although it was nicer as a separate pudding tbh) but which didn't sit very well on top of the cake, so it wasn't the most beautiful cake ever....<cough>

And I was in such a rush that I only remembered to take pics after I'd removed the candles/sparklers/plastic lizards from the top, so the couple of very bad photos I got don't do it justice and you can't see how moist it is either.


Oh - and I still haven't taken them off my phone, but I will.....



















.....soon.

 

[Biddlybee]

Without photos that all means nothing



























(sounds lush )

 

[sheothebudworths]

Tasted lush, looked shite!


Cake (it looks small, but it was actually relatively flat, but quite massive across!) -



Decorated cake, minus most of the decoration -



Moist cake (which you probably can't see!) -

 

[Biddlybee]

Tasted lush, looked shite!

Doesn't look shite... it has stars on it!

Maybe I'll give it a go, not sure how the boy feels about beetroot, I could just keep schtum.

 

[il_bastardo]

Well, beetroot has been considered an aphrodisiac for thousands of years...

And look: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3090307.stm

got to love the way that farmer is touting boron as the new ye olde viagra....

 

[cesare]

That cake does look lush sheo. Is that your lass? She looks so cute!

 

[sheothebudworths]

Biddly - he won't know it's there!

cesare - yes that's her! She fucking cried when I brought the cake out, btw!
I like to think it was just the sparklers alarming her a bit - a fear that her BEAUTIFUL cake was going up in flames and not a (very natural, tbf...) reaction to the look of the cake, itself.

 

[Herbsman.]

That cake looks lush, I hope you saved some for me

 

[cesare]

cesare - yes that's her! She fucking cried when I brought the cake out, btw!
I like to think it was just the sparklers alarming her a bit - a fear that her BEAUTIFUL cake was going up in flames and not a (very natural, tbf...) reaction to the look of the cake, itself.

Awr, what like proper tears?!?! She was prolly just a bit overcome and excited, she looks happy enough in the pic. A real sweetie. I likes your coloured bowls and plates and glasses btw.

 

[sheothebudworths]

Yeah - proper crying! I think it was just birthday over-excitement, tbh. My son cried every year from the ages of about five to eight, so she's just started a year early.

Herbsman, sorry but no. You put me off with your tale of rushing.

And anyway, I don't think you need any more beetroot!

 

[Herbsman.]

aww you sound like an awesome mum

1. makes cakes for her kids birthday

2. doesnt shag random geezers off internet forums

 

[sheothebudworths]

aww you sound like an awesome mum

1. makes cakes for her kids birthday

2. doesnt shag random geezers off internet forums

 

[psycherelic]

This thread inspired me to make my own chocolate beetroot cake, I didn't like any of the recipes I found though so I used a carrot cake recipe and replaced the carrots with beetroot and added 50g cocoa

It seemed to go down ok, it wasn't purple though but you could just about taste the beetroot, it was quite nice I thought.

The recipe was quite similar to sheo's actually