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Here's something very tasty that I made yesterday, the beetroot is growing prolifically in the garden and this is a recipe that Mum sent me a long time ago - so I thought that I would try it out.  Its certainly unusual, you can't taste the beetroot but it makes it really moist & extremely tasty and a great way to get some extra veg into the kids, who think it is the best cake ever!

The ingredients are as simple as this, the colour of the beetroot pureed is divine.

The finished item, almost all gone now - definately will be making this one again.

And the recipe if you want to try too is below

Chocolate beetroot Cake 

Ingredients

100g drinking chocolate

230g self-raising flour

200g caster sugar

100g dark chocolate, minimum 60% cocoa solids broken into pieces.

125g unsalted butter

250g cooked beetroot, grated

3 large eggs

Preparation method

1.	Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Butter and flour a 18cm round cake tin.
2.	Sift flour and drinking chocolate together in a bowl, then stir in the sugar.
3.	In a bowl suspended over a pot of hot water, melt the chocolate and butter.
4.	Add the beetroot and the eggs and mix well.
5.	Eventually add the beetroot mix to the dry ingredients and mix well.
6.	Pour the mix into the prepared tin and bake for 50 mins until a skewer comes out clean. Leave to cool in tin for ten minutes.
7.	Decorate by dusting with icing sugar or it is delicious served warm with custard.