devil's food cake recipe using raw beets

Classic recipe for Devil's Food Cake using freshly grated raw beets.

Devil’s Food Cake (with raw beets)

Ingredients
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 3/4 cups sugar
  • 3/4 cup cocoa
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 1/2 cups buttermilk
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 3/4 cup melted butter, cool
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1/2 cup raw beets, grated
Procedure
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degres F. Grease a 10" diameter cake pan with high sides.
  2. Sift flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and soda, and salt. Add in buttermilk, eggs and vanilla and beat until blended. Mix in butter and sour cream, then stir in beets.
  3. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 60 minutes or until cake tests clean. Let cake rest in pan for 10 minutes before turning out onto cooling rack.
Notes

 

Content by Renee Shelton. Recipe adapted from a clipping from Bon appetit magazine, no date, but the recipe has written 'from The Lark Creek Inn.'. This recipe was first published on PastrySampler.com on January 10, 2007. It was updated on October 12, 2020.

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