Maroon Chocolate Cake
From jo_jo_ba 15 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 12
The darker, more sultry version of red velvet cake. It gets a rich flavour from real butter, buttermilk, a touch of beet juice and Kamut flour and added moisture from applesauce and brown sugar.
Ingredients
- 1/3 cup packed brown sugar shopping list
- 2/3 cup sugar shopping list
- 1/4 cup butter shopping list
- 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce shopping list
- 2 eggs shopping list
- 1 tbsp vanilla shopping list
- 2 tbsp red food colouring shopping list
- 1 tbsp pure beet juice shopping list
- 2 tbsp water shopping list
- 1/4 cup cocoa, sifted shopping list
- 1 1/4 cups flour shopping list
- 1 cup Kamut flour shopping list
- 1/4 tsp salt shopping list
- 1 cup low-fat buttermilk shopping list
- 1 1/2 tbsp apple cider vinegar shopping list
- 2 tsp baking soda shopping list
How to make it
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Grease two round 9" cake pans.
- Cream sugars, butter and applesauce until fluffy.
- Add eggs and vanilla, beat well.
- Make a paste of the food colouring, beet juice, water and cocoa powder, scrape into above mixture and beat well.
- Whisk together flours and salt in a separate bowl.
- Add dry ingredients alternately with the buttermilk to the creamed mixture.
- In a small dish, mix vinegar and baking soda well (it will foam).
- Add to the batter and fold in gently but thoroughly.
- Bake 30 minutes, cool completely in pans before turning out.
The Rating
Reviewed by 6 people-
Sounds super! And really low-fat! I love that!
markeverett
in Riverside loved it
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looks delicious...thx for the post....
angieaugusta
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great post!
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