2-of-your-5-a-day Chocolate Cake

When I created my last recipe for the Swallow's Recipes for Life challenge, I also promised a chocolate cake, so here it is. It's a lovely moist cake that takes no time at all to make, and best of all has hidden veggies in. The topping is my favourite quick topping for chocolate cake as it's not too sweet but lovely and chocolatey. I usually use dark chocolate spread from Asda but the supermarket I shopped in last weekend only had milk chocolate spread, soyou just need a bit more.

You can read more about the Recipes for life challenge here, this month the ingredients are beetroot, carrots and cheese, and believe it or not, this cake has all 3.

2-of-your-5-a-day Chocolate Cake

150g cooked carrots
135g cooked beetroot (not pickled)
185g butter, softened
285g Caster sugar
5 Eggs
285g SR flour
40g Cocoa powder
2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
200g Cream cheese (full fat works best)
200g Chocolate spread

• Add the carrots, beetroot, butter, sugar & eggs to a food processor & blitz until smooth
• Mix the flour with the cocoa powder and bicarbonate of soda
• Add the flour mix to the food processor with the motor running until all combined
• Pour into a greased & lined rectangular cake tin (approx 32cm x 22cm)
• Bake in a 200 C oven for 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean when inserted
• Allow to cool in the tin
• Beat the cream cheese and chocolate spread together and spread over the cooled cake
• Decorate as desired or just sprinkle with cocoa powder

 

Neither the beetroot or carrot can be detected in the cake, and in the words of my 10 year old beetroot hating daughter 'it's soooooo good'.

This has been entered into the Rix November challenge