Chocolate Beetroot Cake

About Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Ingredients

• Cocoa powder 4 tbsps
• Beetroot puree 1 cup
• Refined flour ¾ cup
• Baking powder 2 tsps
• Castor sugar 1 cup
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• Eggs 3
• Oil ¾ cup
• Icing sugar for dusting

How to Make Chocolate Beetroot Cake (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180º C. Grease a cake tin with a little oil and line it with butter paper.
2. Sift cocoa powder, refined flour and baking powder into a bowl.
3. Take beetroot puree in a mixing bowl, add castor sugar and vanilla essence and mix well.
4. Add the refined flour and cocoa powder mixture and mix.
5. Now add eggs, one by one, and beat well with an electric blender.
6. Add oil then and beat till smooth.
7. Pour the batter into the prepared cake tin. Keep the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes or till the top is firm.
8. Take the cake tin out of the oven and keep aside to cool. Demould the cake, dust icing sugar over it and cut into slices.
9. Keep the slices on a serving platter and serve.

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

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Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps