What is a beet cake?
Cooks with a recipe of beet cake tends to maintain it carefully guarded secrets. This is not because they do not want to share it, but because children, husbands and even guests who are not saying the reasons why the chocolate cake is incredibly sweet, damp and tasty, is due to beets. The truth is that they will not know if they are not told, because in the taste of the final product there is nothing that leads dinner to believe that it contains vegetables. After all, no one will find nose on zucchini bread, banana bread or carrot cake. The addition of beet puree for dough for cakes makes it denser and richer and absolutely, deliciously damp.
While beets do an amazing job to improve the taste of chocolate, not all cakes from beet are chocolate. Facing cake dough, which was improved by orange juice and enthusiasm, is the perfect candidate for beet-based Addine. After all, spicy beets were served in orange glaze for centuries. Beet puree tends to deepen the color of chocolate dOrtu, but the creation of a beet cake, which is without chocolate, allows beautiful red to cover the cake beautiful, deep pink.
How unusual as beets, it has been popular for decades. Farmers' wives, who knew the importance of finding use for everything, often included beets in their recipes for cakes. In addition to chocolate, white and orange cakes, beets of puree works well with lemon, ginger and red velvet cake. Like the chefs today, there is a good bet that a great grandmother did not bother to mention that the children ate vegetables when it was time for dessert.
Experiments Wise Cook with a range of beet topping. One tested favorite is cream cheese topping made of spraying cream and powdered sugar. Changes in this type abound; One option is to add lemon or orange peel and split their juices instead of the cream. Another is to taste the topping of a few drops of ORan anžový, vanilla or almond extract. Some chefs add crushed nuts or pecans for crunch.
Simple chocolate icing is another option. Another way to go is icing made of cream and powder sugar and a little beet juice. No matter how sliced it is, beet is certainly an intervention at any table.