Beetroot Chocolate Cake Recipe Video | How to make Beetroot Chocolate Cake

Beetroot Chocolate Cake recipe | How to make Beetroot Chocolate Cake

Beetroot Chocolate Cake is an easy tea time cake recipe. This cake needs a bit of preparation before mixing and baking. Beetroot is a sweet veggie which adds its flavor in the cake. To get the best flavors of beetroot in beetroot chocolate cake, we should first peel and boil the beetroot. Beetroot is a crunchy veggie which has a little sourness in taste. To balance this it is important to cook beetroot first and later we can grate or puree it to make beetroot chocolate cake.

To make beetroot chocolate cake, it is advised to use oil instead of butter. Mostly cakes are baked with butter in recipe but for beetroot chocolate cake, oil should be used.

In case of no oven, Beetroot chocolate cake can be cooked in pressure cooker easily. Other tea time cake recipes are cardamom cake, banana cake, oats cookies, wheat flour cookies etc.

Here is the complete recipe for preparing Beetroot Chocolate Cake.

Recipe Video : Beetroot Chocolate Cake

Ingredients for Beetroot Chocolate Cake

Beetroot : 1 medium

All Purpose Flour : 3/4 cup

Coco Powder : 4 tbsp

Powdered Sugar : 2/3 cup

Baking Powder : 1 tsp

Egg : 1

Vanilla Essence : 1 tsp

Oil : 1/2 cup

Water : 1/4 cup

All Purpose Flour : 1/2 tsp for dusting

How to make Beetroot Chocolate Cake

Wash and peel beetroot. Cut into medium cubes.

Boil 1 cup water in a pan and cook beetroot cubes in it for 5 minutes or till discoloration.

Keep beetroot cubes aside till it comes at room temperature.

Grate beetroot cubes.

In a bowl, add all purpose flour / maida.

Mix coco powder in it.

Mix powdered sugar and baking powder in it.

Mix all the ingredients.

Now in a bowl, beat one egg.

Add vanilla essence in beaten egg.

Add oil in it.

Mix all wet ingredients well.

Now mix all purpose flour and beaten egg mix in one bowl.

Add water if required.

Preheat oven at 180 C.

Grease a baking dish with oil.

Sprinkle all purpose flour in it to dust well.

Pour the cake batter in it.

Bake in oven for 30 minutes.

Beetroot Chocolate Cake is ready.

How to make Beetroot Chocolate Cake (Step clicks and details)

Wash and peel beetroot. Cut beetroot into medium cubes. Now in a pan, bring 1 cup water to boil. Leave the beetroot cubes in it and cook in a covered pan for 5 - 7 minutes or check when beetroot is lighter in color. 

Now take the beetroot cubes out and keep aside till it is on room temperature. Grate beetroot cubes and keep aside for later use in cake.

In a pan, take all purpose flour. Mix all the dry ingredients in it one by one. First lets mix coco powder in it. 

Now we add powdered sugar in it. In this recipe, I have used powdered brown sugar. We can also use normal white sugar. In case powdered sugar is not available, just run it in mixture / grinder for few seconds. We should not crystal sugar in cake. 

Now add baking powder. Mix all the ingredients well.

Now beat one egg in a bowl. Mix vanilla essence in it. Also add oil in it. Beat the mixture for few seconds. Now mix all the wet and dry ingredients mix together.

Now add grated beetroot in it. Mix all the ingredients well. I felt after mixing that the cake better is very thick and bit dry, so I added 1/4 cup water in it to make it a smooth batter.

Now preheat the oven at 180 C. Grease a pan with few drops of oil. Sprinkle some all purpose flour or wheat flour in it to dust all the sides of pan. Once all the sides of baking pan are well coated in wheat flour, pour the beetroot chocolate cake batter in baking pan. 

Place the baking pan in oven at center for 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, cake will be ready. Baking time depends upon the size of baking dish and size of the oven. Insert a thin stick or knife in cake till bottom and pull it up. Check if the knife is clean after it comes out of cake. If the knife comes clean, cake is perfectly baked. If it does not come out clean, the bake it for few more minutes.

Once the cake is ready, keep the baking dish outside and let it cool down completely and then bring the cake out of baking dish.

Beetroot Chocolate Cake is ready. 

Few Other Cakes Recipes :

Is red velvet cake made using beet ?

No, it uses red color but it can be prepared using beetroot replacing the artificial red color.

Why beetroot is added to a cake?

Beetroot is a natural sweetener, adding it in the cake will reduce the added sugar quantity.

Can we make vegan beetroot cake ?

Yes, we can replace egg with flax seed gel in above recipe to make vegan beetroot chocolate cake.