BEET CAKE WITH GANACHE GLAZE
By: Namita Tiwari
Published: Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 2:37am

Ingredients




Ingredients
Cake
1 ¾ cups all purpose flour
2 eggs
¾ cup yogurt
¾ cups brown sugar (packed)
½ cup butter (1 stick)
½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
Ganache
100gms dark chocolate
4 tablespoons low fat cream

Preparation

1 (Cake) 2 Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and line an 8 inch round cake tin. 3 Beat together butter, brown sugar and sugar till light and fluffy. 4 Add eggs one at a time beating well each time. 5 Add vanilla extract. 6 Sieve together all purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. 7 Beat yogurt till smooth. If yogurt is very thick, add 2-3 tablespoons of water. 8 Add flour mixture to butter-egg mixture in two shifts. Add curd while mixing. 9 Mix well and ensure there are no lumps. 10 Bake for 35-40 minutes till the top turns golden and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. While the cake cools, prepare ganache. 11 Ganache 12 Heat the chocolate and cream in a very heavy bottom pan on low flame. Stir constantly till the chocolate melts. Take off the heat and stir briskly till it becomes smooth and shiny. It will thicken as it cools. 13 Pour Ganache evenly on cake.

About

Beet Cake is moist and soft cake with all the goodness of beets minus the flavour and colour. Beet cake pairs very well with Ganache glaze.