I have to admit that I never normally buy fresh beetroot. The reason we did this time was as we had read that if you feed silkworms beetroot leaves, their silk may turn to a pale pink colour.We tried to feed the silkworms the beetroot leaves, but they wouldn’t eat them! One even made it’s cocoon in the leaves, so we had all these beetroots and leaves and I had no idea what to do with them.
I went looking for a recipe and came across this Beetroot Cupcake recipe on the Thermomix forum.
I boiled all the beetroots we had, but had 4 left over which I baked to have with our pork roast that night.
Beetroot Cupcakes
Ingredients
- 190 g caster sugar
- 290 g cooked beetroot
- 65 g oil
- 2 eggs
- 290 g plain flour
- 1 TBSP baking powder
- maple syrup to taste
Instructions
- Preheat over to 175g fan-forced.
- Add beetroot to bowl and puree 10 sec SP9. Scrape down sides and puree again 20 sec SP 9 until a chunky puree.
- Add oil and eggs and mix 30 sec SP 6.
- Add sugar, flour and baking powder and then mix on SP4 for 30 secs.
- Add maple syrup to taste and mix 10 sec SP4.
- Place into patty cases and bake for approximately 20 mins.
Notes
I used pink coloured icing on them which really did make them. We found they just needed a little sweetening which the icing helped with. Maybe if you added a little more maple syrup they would not need the icing. I only added about 1 TBSP of maple syrup, you could try with a little more.
Recipe from: Recipe Community!
Linking to:
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December 27, 2013 at 12:52 pmBeetroot?! Love it. May need to try this, looks colorful and yum! Stopping by from the hop (and the Crew too) Have a great weekend!!!
~Heather
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January 3, 2014 at 1:49 pmThese sound really good, though I am not quite clear on the instructions or ingredient amounts. I will have to try to figure it out, because they do look good. Thanks for linking these up with Kids and a Mom in the Kitchen and for linking back to my blog. I really appreciate that.
Have a great day!