Chocolate Beetroot Cake with glaze

Ingredients
Dry Ingredients
Refined flour – 1 cup
Whole wheat flour – ½ cup
Sugar – 1 cup
Cocoa Powder – 6 tbsp
Baking soda – ¾ tsp
Baking powder – 1/8 tsp


Wet Ingredients
Beetroot puree – 1¼ cup
Warm water – ½ cup
Olive oil – ¼ cup
Vanilla essence – ½ tbsp
Apple cider vinegar – 1 tsp

Icing

Heavy cream – 1 cup
Bitter sweet Chocolate – 1 cup


Method

1. Preheat the oven at 180 deg 
2. Mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl and add sugar to it and mix 
3. Line the baking tray with butter and parchment paper 
4. Sieve together all the dry ingredients and fold into the wet ingredients 
5. Pour the batter into cake mould and bake at 180 deg for 50- 60 mins or till toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean 
6. Let the cake cool down. Once cooled, transfer it to wire rack to cool completely 
7. For glaze, microwave heavy cream for 3- 4 mins to warm it. It should not boil 
8. Add chololate to it and let it sit for few minutes 
9. Mix Chocolate and cream mixture and let it cool completely 
10. Blend the mixture for 2-3 mins 
11. Pour the glaze over the cake center. Spread with spatula and decorate with chocolate shavings

Apple crumble

Ingrediets

For the filling:

Apple – 3medium

Castor sugar  - 2tbsp

Cinnamon powder-  2tsp

For the crumble:

Refined flour – ¾ cup

Castor sugar – ½ cup

Cold butter – 100grm = 1 stick

For topping (optional)

Whipped cream/ custard / Vanilla ice cream to serve

Method:

1.  Preheat the oven at 180deg.
2. Toss the apples with sugar and cinnamon powder and pour into baking dish.Flatten down with your hand to prevent too much crumble falling through
3.  In a bowl, put flour,sugar and a pinch of salt. Slice in the butter and rub it in with your fingertips until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs
4. Shake the bowl and any big bits left will come to the surface – rub them in
5. Pour the crumb mix over the apples to form a pile in the centre, then use fork to spread it all over
6. Bake for 30 – 40 mins, until the top is golden. Apples should feel very soft when toothpick is inserted in the center
7. Leave to cool and serve with ice cream or custard or cream