Beetrotinger cake
By rkhooks • Jan 30th, 2009 • Category: Cake, Food blog events, Food blogs, Lately Khooked, Sweets
What do you get when you cross a beetroot, a carrot and some ginger? A BEETROTINGER! Sorry that’s quite bad but when I saw this month’s in the bag challenge I wasn’t quite sure what to make of beetroot, carrot and celery. Maybe some sort of bloody maryesque cocktail but that defeats the purpose of doing a detox…After lots of hum and ar-ring. I decided to forget the celery and replace it with some ginger which is very good for detox aswell. And to be quite honest a cake is not very detox at all. So I suggest eating some celery to balance it out 
Celery is actually one of the few negative calorie foods which means that it takes the body more energy to digest than what the body consumes.
Beetrotinger cake
125g finely grated carrots
125g finely grated raw beetroot
10g finely grated fresh ginger
100g brown sugar
125g ground hazelnuts
50g flour
3 tsp baking powder
100g melted butter
2 eggs
Preheat the oven 180°c. Grease a tin 15 x 15 cm. Mix flour, hazelnuts, baking powder together add the grated carrot, beetroot and ginger. Mix again and then crack the eggs and add the butter. Combine all the ingredients. Spoon into the tin and smooth out. Bake for 20-25minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
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what an interesting cake:) I ve never tried beetroot so far. This cake looks good though. yum yum !
Beetroot in cakes is really suprisingly tasty – I’d love to taste yours!
Ooohhh….what a good way to pretend to eat healthy (or maybe that was just me, who eats carrot cake and pretend that it’s really a salad course!) But I’m glad you did not put celery in the cake. That would have taken the fun out of eating it. Load up the sugar and butter!! Hehe! But maybe i’ll try making these just so i can tell my boyfriend they are good for him! Oh, and happy chinese new year to you!!
Yum! I love the idea of a beetroot cake that *isn’t* a chocolate variation. And it looks so moist too.
Very heartened to see that there are only two lines of instructions (my baking skills are, um, modest)
Snookydoodle – You should definetly give it a try! It’s well worth a risk
Scott – Well hop on the Eurostar then
Christy – Like the idea of you making them for your boyfriend and branding them healthy. Well you could say they are healthIER.
Sophie – I recently read a chocolate beetroot brownie recipe in the Guardian, looked delish but I’m still suffering from Christmas overdose. And in regards to the instructions I just can’t do complicated anymore. I want quick easy recipes who wants to spend 30mins reading through the instructions?
Knowing my love of *all* things beetroot, Sophie just pointed me to your recipe and what a corker it is. I’ve made beetroot and chocolate cake on many occasions, but this looks even better. Love the deep pink tinge. I shall be making this very soon.
Wow! Your cake looks amazing! I’m definately going to make this!
I really need to start looking at beetroot in a different way,and take scott’s and your words that it could be delicious. the cake looks convincingly tasty