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Beetroot Chocolate Cake

5 from 5 votes
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine European
Servings 1 people
Calories 402 kcal

Ingredients
 

For the chocolate dough

  • 300 g Boiled beetroot
  • 150 g Butter
  • 100 g Dark chocolate
  • 3 Pc. Eggs (size M)
  • 150 g Sugar
  • 150 g Flour
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 2 tbsp Cocoa powder heavily de-oiled

Cheese mass

  • 2 Pc. Eggs (size M)
  • 100 g Sugar
  • 50 ml Orange juice
  • 1 tbsp Food starch
  • 400 g Double cream cheese
  • Icing sugar for dusting

Instructions
 

Chocolate dough

  • Preheat the oven to 180 ° C (convection 160 ° C)
  • Coarsely chop beetroot and puree using the popular all-purpose shredder (keep in mind that the beetroot likes to permanently rub off, so take all necessary safety measures in advance)
  • Melt the butter and chocolate in a water bath and mix them together, let them cool down a little
  • Beat eggs and sugar until frothy (approx. 5 - 8 minutes)
  • Mix the flour, baking powder and cocoa and fold into the whipped egg mixture
  • Stir the chocolate butter and beetroot puree into the mixture
  • Set aside 5 tbsp dough
  • Put the dough in the baking paper lined or buttered and crumbled tin

Cheese mass

  • Separate the eggs, stir the egg yolks with half of the sugar until frothy. Stir in orange juice, cornstarch and cream cheese
  • Beat the egg whites with the other half of the sugar until stiff (if you dare, you can do the overhead test). Fold the egg whites into the cheese mixture and do not stir
  • Put the cheese mixture on the chocolate dough
  • Place the dough set aside on the cheese mixture, either in a plucked cake form or, as a modification of a marble cake, work in with a fork
  • Bake the cake in the oven for about 60 minutes, chopsticks test. Cover the last 30-15 minutes with aluminum foil if necessary.
  • Let cool down and serve dusted with powdered sugar if necessary
  • Good hunger!

Nutrition

Serving: 100gCalories: 402kcalCarbohydrates: 38.4gProtein: 7gFat: 24.5g

Written by John Myers

Professional Chef with 25 years of industry experience at the highest levels. Restaurant owner. Beverage Director with experience creating world-class nationally recognized cocktail programs. Food writer with a distinctive Chef-driven voice and point of view.

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