Chocolate Beetroot Muffins
Our favourite recipe from BBC Food
Ingredients
75g
2½oz
cocoa powder
180g
6½oz
plain flour
2
tsp
baking powder
250g
8½oz
caster sugar
250g
8½oz
cooked beetroot
3
large
eggs
200ml
7fl oz
corn oil
1
tbs
vanilla extract
icing sugar
for dusting
Instructions
Preheat the oven to 180C. Arrange paper muffin cases in a 12-mould muffin tin
Sift the cocoa powder, flour and baking powder into a bowl. Mix in the sugar, and set aside
Purée the beetroot in a food processor. Add the eggs, one at a time, then add the vanilla and oil and blend until smooth
Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add the beetroot mixture and lightly mix. Pour into the muffin cases
Bake for 30 minutes or until the top is firm when pressed with a finger
Cool on a wire rack and dust with icing sugar to serve