Chocolate & Beetroot Muffins

[preppingsu]

Made this today, yummy! I haven't told the kids what's in them, I've just said they are a moist chocolate cake.

2oz cocoa powder
6oz plain flour
11/2 tsp baking powder
7oz caster sugar
9oz cooked Beetroot
3 eggs
7fl oz sunflower oil
31/2oz dark chocolate, finely chopped

Icing sugar to dust

Set oven at 160degrees C
sieve the cocoa powder, flour and baking powder into a bowl and add sugar.
Grate the peeled Beetroot and then using a mixer add the eggs and slowly pour in oil. Blend until mixture is smooth.
Stir the wet mixture into the dry ingredients and add the chopped chocolate.

Put into 12 muffin cases and cook for approx 20-30 mins or until a skewer comes out clean.

Dust with icing sugar when cool.

Enjoy!

[Alleycat]

Beetroot???? (still havent got a vomit emoticon but I would be using it here) sorry but this sounds absolutely horrible .....only 2 vegetables I can not stand -broad beans and beetroot, both have got a really strong earthy flavour. Can you taste the flavour at all? Or does the chocolate mask the nasty?

[preppingsu]

You can't taste or see the Beetroot. My son,who only eats carrots, ate most of these (although he didn't know there was Beetroot in them ) so I will be doing them again. It's a great way to use Beetroot.

[The-Great-Nothing]

Hi

I made some a couple of years ago - really tasty - and no beetroot taste!



Cheers

Matt

[Alleycat]

Might let the child try them first ......though she has got to an age where she might trick me

[Decaff]

I make muffins a lot and have made them with beetroot and also courgettes and you really can't taste the veg in them.

Also lovely are cheesy chive muffins fresh from the oven ooh and banana muffins to use up the squidgy bananas you can't eat as they are too ripe.