Chocolate Beet Cake

What you need:

• 4 medium beets peeled, boiled and pureed
• 2 cups whole wheat flour/all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups unrefined sugar
• 1/2 cup cocoa powder
• 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
• pinch of salt
• 2 large eggs

• 3/4 cup warm water

• 1/4 cup sunflower oil

• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees or 180 F. Whisk together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking soda, and 3/4 teaspoon salt in a large bowl. Whisk in eggs, water, oil, vanilla, and 1 1/4 cups beet puree 
2. Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with cooking spray.  Pour batter into pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Let cool in pan on a wire rack for 20 minutes. Turn out cake from pan,  Let cool completely, right side up.
3. Garnish as per desire.