Beet Cake
From riverrat715 14 years ago
- 45-55 minutes to make
- Serves 12
I got this recipe from an old hippie friend. She was a great and unusual cook
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter or margarine, softened, divided shopping list
- 1 1/2 cups packed dark brown sugar shopping list
- 3 eggs shopping list
- 2 cups pureed cooked beets shopping list
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract shopping list
- 2 cups all-purpose flour shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon salt shopping list
- confectioners' sugar shopping list
How to make it
- n a mixing bowl, cream 3/4 cup butter and brown sugar. Add eggs; mix well. Melt chocolate with remaining butter; stir until smooth. Cool slightly. Blend chocolate mixture, beets and vanilla into the creamed mixture (mixture will appear separated). Combine flour, baking soda and salt; add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Pour into a greased and floured 10-in. fluted tube pan. Bake at 375 degrees F for 45-55 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean. Cool in pan 10 minutes before removing to a wire rack. Cool completely. Before serving, dust with confectioners' sugar or make a glaze with 2 tbs, Milk, 1 tbs butter, 1 tsp. vanilla, 1/2 cp powdered sugar. This is a delicious cake and no one would ever guess that it is made with beets.
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