Healthy Dessert Recipe: Chocolate and Beetroot Cake

My Healthy Dessert Recipe: Chocolate and Beetroot Cake

Ingredients

• 3 cups of baking flour
• 3 cups of cooked shredded beetroot
• 4 medium-size eggs
• Mixed fruit and nuts
• ½ cup of Greek yogurt
• 150-180g of Light Chocolate Philadelphia cream cheese
• Fresh cherries
• ½ cup of cocoa powder (or chocolate protein powder)
• 1 cup of Stevia (natural substitute for sugar)
• 1/3 cup of olive oil
• 2 tsp of baking powder
• 1 tsp of baking soda
• 1 tsp of balsamic vinegar
• ½ tsp of sea salt

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Beat the eggs and Stevia.
3. Mix all the dry and wet ingredients except the oils (olive oil and balsamic vinegar).
4. Add olive oil and balsamic vinegar gradually.
5. Add your fruit and nuts of choice.
6. Combine it all together quickly without spending too much time mixing.
7. Bake in the oven for approx. 50min.
8. Once the cake is ready and cooled down, spread the chocolate cream cheese on the top and add some fresh fruit.

Tips

• First and foremost, let me just say that this cake DOES NOT taste like beetroot ok! You are simply getting the nutritional benefits of this awesome vegetable!
• This recipe is very fun – it’s really easy to do the measurements with the cup and you can go wild with the fruit and nuts you wish to add, the same goes for the cake topping.
• Send me your pictures, I’d love to see your creation!

Special Thanks

This recipe was inspired by my dear friend and member of the Bea Tribe, Bella Molto.

Thank you Bella for sharing this wonderful recipe with us. I love it so much that I have made it dozens of times, and slightly different every time.