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
Edible Cookie Dough Recipe (Easy!)
Red Velvet Cupcakes
Chocolate Chip Cookie Chess Pie
S’Mores Trail Mix
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!
I’ve actually never had beets– but this recipe looks great 🙂
I love beets, chocolate, and cake, so this is a great combination in my mind! Looks super moist too!
I have never ever heard of this combination before. I love cake, so I would definitely try it once!
Red Beet Chocolate Cake sounds so different, yet delicious. I am actually one of the few that LOVE beets and am dying to try this!!!
I hope you won’t be disappointed, because you can’t taste them at all. For someone who doesn’t care for beets, like me, it is perfect!
I’m slowly taking a liking to beets. Just had some Beet Goat Cheese Bread a few weeks and loved it. In a cake is probably awesome!
I can’t believe those are beets! I could totally eat this!
I love recipes that have veggies hidden inside. These look so delicious i cant wait to try them out. Thanks for sharing.
What a sneaky idea! I really want to try this as a means to sneak in some more healthy into the kids diets. Def worth bookmarking to try! Thanks for this brilliant idea.
Let me know how it goes!
I remember making black bean brownies a few years ago. This is a really interesting idea, I may have to give it a try!
Wow what a great idea. This looks amazing, I’m super intrigued now to see what these taste like!
You could totally hide beets in my chocolate cake! YUM!
Now that’s a way to get me to try beets! Ha! I bet the kids would love it too. 😉
This looks delicious. I love beets. I never would have thought to use them in a cake. Nice!
Ok, so I hate beets but I am going to trust you on this one. If you fooled two children into loving this and thinking it was just chocolate cake then I am positive that I will feel the same 🙂 I really love this idea!! What a great way to pull off a whole serve of veges – that means I can eat this for breakfast, right?
I hate them as well, but let me tell you… you’ll never know. Just try it and let me know how it goes. And you can totally eat it for breakfast, although I allow eating non-beet cakes for breakfast too.
This is just bizarre enough to try: beets in a chocolate cake. The selling point is how moist you said it ended up. I have never been a frosting fan, so a dusting of powdered sugar sounds perfect.
I love beets, so I would love this chocolate cake! My father doesn’t like beets, so I may have to make this and see if he can tell there’s beets in it. 😉
What a great idea. I will have to give that a try.
I have never eaten beets before in my life, but this looks really yummy so I may try them!
I love this idea. I really try to stay away from food dyes, so natural is a great way to go!
I hide a lot of veggies in my son’s food. Its is the only way I can get him to eat them most of the time!
They will never know 🙂