Chocolate & Beetroot Cake

15 ingredients
11 steps

Ingredients

  • Cake Ingredients
  • 1 beet
  • 200 grams butter, softened
  • 4 eggs
  • 3 tablespoons maple syrup
  • 3 tablespoons philadelphia cream cheese
  • 2 1/2 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 1/2 cup cacao powder
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/3 cup erythritol (or any type of sweetener or brown sugar)
  • 1/2 cup chocolate bark, crushed
  • Chocolate Sauce
  • 1 cup milk chocolate, melted
  • 1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted

Directions

  1. 1
    Preheat oven at 180C
  2. 2
    Wrap the beetroot in alluminum foil and roast for 50 minutes
  3. 3
    Let it cool. Then peel by scraping skin with the foil. puree in blender
  4. 4
    In a mixer with the flat beater attachment combine the butter, beetroot puree, eggs, maple syrup, philadelphia cream cheese and heavy cream. Mix well until well combined
  5. 5
    In a separate large bowl combine all the dry ingredients together. The almond flour, coconut powder, cacao powder, vanilla powder, salt and erythritol
  6. 6
    Slowly pour the dry ingredients in the wet mixture and mix until combined
  7. 7
    Use a spatula to stir in the mixture the chocolate bark
  8. 8
    Butter & dust with almond flour a medium sized rectangular cake baking pan, or line it with baking sheet
  9. 9
    Pour the mixture in the baking pan
  10. 10
    Bake for 35 minutes at 180C
  11. 11
    For chocolate sauce: In a low heat saucepan melt the milk chocolate and the coconut oil for 5 minutes. Drizzle over the cake, and enjoy!

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