Want an easy way to give your picky kids a full serving of vegetables without them knowing it? This Chocolate Beet Cake is perfect for unsuspecting little victims of the secret that lies behind this beet cake!
This Chocolate Beet Cake hides an entire serving of veggies inside a moist, rich chocolate cake! This is the best beet cake that you will ever make!
How do you get your kids to eat their veggies? Hide them in chocolate cake, more specifically this Chocolate Beet Cake! Stop grinning, I’m totally serious.
I even tried it out on my niece and nephew. Both asked for seconds and neither suspected that I hid an entire serving of beets (gag) inside their dessert.
See these (look down,) all of these luscious and vibrant beets are masked by a small amount of cocoa in the Chocolate Beet Cake above.
Being that Chocolate Beet Cake is so rich and moist, it really doesn’t require a thick frosting, but feel free to add some if you’d like.
Instead, I opted for a light dusting of powdered sugar. Try not to garnish with powdered sugar until you are ready to serve, otherwise it absorbs into the cake.
You’ll be surprised to know that Chocolate Beet Cake isn’t the only recipe that hides a serving of vegetables from your consumers. There are multiple recipes out there that taste like your typical slice of cake, or muffins but there’s a unseen secret, vegetables!
You can pretty much take any kind of vegetable you can think of and incorporate it into a dessert recipe in some way. Love dessert but don’t love all the calories and sugar that comes with it?
This is the best alternative for getting the best of both worlds. You get to make your cake and get to enjoy it too!
You’ve heard of carrot cake, but what about double chocolate zucchini bread, avocado brownies, or even spinach ice cream?
Hey don’t turn your nose up until you’ve given it a chance! Finally a way to enjoy any kind of dessert your heart desires without all the worries.
Make sure you check out these other easy chocolate recipes:
- Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Buttercream
- Grandma’s Chocolate Mayonnaise Cake
- Creamy No-Bake Chocolate Cheesecake
- Triple Chocolate Cookie Cheesecake Bars
Red Beet Chocolate Cake
Ingredients
- 2 15- ounce cans sliced beets drained
- 4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
- 2 cups unbleached flour sifted
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs room temperature
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Powdered sugar for garnish
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly coat a 9×13 baking dish with cooking spray.
- Transfer drained beets to a food processor. Pulse until finely ground into a paste.
- In microwave, heat the chocolate until melted. Add to food processor and pulse until combined with beets. Transfer mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment or a large mixing bowl.
- Sift together flour, baking soda and salt and set aside. Add the sugar, eggs, oil and vanilla to beet and chocolate mixture. Blend until fully combined. Slowly add flour mixture. Blend until a cake batter consistency.
- Evenly spread into the bottom of prepared 9×13 inch baking dish. Bake for 25-30 minutes, or until the cake passes the toothpick test.
- Remove and allow to cool. You can serve warm or cover tightly with aluminum foil and store for up to 4 days. Directly before serving, garish with powdered sugar. Enjoy!
- If you’ve tried this recipe, come back and let us know how it was!
My daughter loves veggies, including beets. My son? Not so much. I need to try this for him!
I love this! I’m always looking for ways to get more vegetables into my children’s diet. Now when we have dessert, they’ll be getting some veggies as well!
Looks like someone finally found a way to get me to eat beets! This looks really good.
This looks delicious! I’ll bet the beets add a nice little something extra!
What a great take on cake! I love the addition of the beets for flavor and fiber. Awesome.
It’s amazing that the flavor of beets can be covered up like that. I support these kinds of tricks!
These look fantastic! Pinning!
No way. Just yesterday I was watching a cooking show and they said that Red Velvet cake (which I love) is just Devil’s Food cake with Beet juice. Now here today, you’re making red beet chocolate cake. Something tells me I need to get some beets.
Beets? I’m a little wary of that – but they are actually healthy brownies!
Dude you are a total genius. I knew there were many reasons why I love you. This, just one of them.
Hahaha, Kim! Try it- I’m sure you will LOVE it!
I thought this was red velvet at first but it looks like a much healthier recipe.
I just pulled a million beets out of the garden over the weekend. I’ll have to try this!
i would NEVER have thought to put beets in a cake!! great concept though. and gives it a really nice color
I’m totally trying this. My son won’t try most vegetables and my husband is hesitant to eat beets!
Jaime, in all honesty, I don’t care for beets either, but I loved this cake!
I need to try this out for my kids. I love the idea of sneaking in veggies when I can.
They will never know unless you tell them!
Wow, I would have never thought of 2 cans of beets in a dessert! The color is lovely!
What an interesting recipe! My mom used to use beet juice to make pink frosting for birthday cakes when I was little.
Woah, beets in a cake? No way. This one I have to try for myself.
It is really good, Robin- you’ll surprise yourself!
Now that is an interesting twist to eating veggies. Looks good
OOoh I need to bake these! You can use black beans too! Fiber, fiber, fiber! LOL Great recipe!!
I haven’t tried using beans, but now I certainly will!