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Ingredients
200g/7oz butter, plus extra for greasing
250g/9oz cooked and peeled beetroot
200g/7oz dark chocolate (70% cocoa solids)
4 tbsp hot espresso
135g/5oz plain flour
1 heaped tsp baking powder
3 tbsp cocoa powder
5 free-range eggs, separated
190g/6 oz golden caster sugar
cr me fra che or double cream, to serve
Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease a 20cm/8in cake tin with a little
butter and line the bottom of the tin with a disc of baking parchment.
Blend the beetroot in a food processor to a rough pur e.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of hot water (do not allow
the bottom of the bowl to touch the water), then pour in the hot coffee.
Stir in the butter in small pieces and leave to soften. Remove from the heat
and allow to cool slightly.
Meanwhile, sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa together in a bowl and set
aside.
Separate the eggs. Whisk the yolks in a bowl until frothy. Stir the eggs into
the chocolate and butter mixture, then fold in the beetroot.
Whisk the egg whites until still peaks form when the whisk is removed. Fold in
the sugar.
Fold the sugar and egg whites into the chocolate mixture, then fold in the
flour and cocoa mixture.
Pour the batter into the prepared tin and bake for 40 minutes, or until a
skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
Allow to cool in the tin, then serve with cr me fra che or double cream.