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Beetroot cake with rose-geranium frosting

By Abigail Donnelly

Serves 8

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 25 minutes, plus overnight soaking time

Cooking Time 45 minutes

Ingredients

250 g beetroot, cooked, puréed and drained
3 free-range eggs
½ t vanilla paste
1 cup sunflower oil
225 g flour
1 ½ t bicarbonate of soda
¼ t salt
6 T good-quality cocoa
300 g brown sugar

For the frosting:

4 rose geranium leaves
300 g caster sugar
¼ t cream of tartar
2 free-range egg whites
Salt, a pinch
½ cup cold water
2 T beetroot juice

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C. Grease and line a 15 cm springform cake tin with baking paper. Mix the beetroot purée, eggs, vanilla paste and oil until well combined.
Sift in the dry ingredients and fold into the batter. Pour the cake batter into the greased cake tin. Bake for 25–35 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean when inserted.
To make the frosting, bruise the rose geranium leaves and place in the sugar overnight. Remove the rose geranium leaves from the sugar and place all the ingredients (including the sugar), except the beetroot juice, into a glass bowl over a saucepan of simmering water. Using an electric beater, beat over the hot water for approximately 7 minutes. Once thick and glossy, remove from the heat and mix through some beetroot juice until coloured to your liking. Generously ice the cake with the frosting.

Cook's note: Beetroot and cocoa result in a moist, dark cake and the floral flavours of the frosting finish it off beautifully.

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