Beet red velvet cake with rose frosting
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Serves: 8 portions
Ingredients
For the base:
  • 250 g beetroots
  • 1 tbsp (15 ml) water
  • 2 eggs
  • 100 g sugar
  • 120 g all purpose flour or rice flour
  • 60 g butter
  • 15 cacao or cocoa powder
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • ½ tsp baking soda
For the frosting:
  • 200 ml heavy cream
  • 300 g cream cheese
  • 1 g vanilla sugar
  • 2 tbsp (30 ml) water
  • ½ tsp rose petals
  • 1 ½ tbsp(45 g) honey
Preparation
For the base:
  1. Wash and peel the beetroots. Wrap them in folio paper and bake them in oven at 200°C (395F) until soft (it will take between 1½ to 2 hours depending on the size of your beetroots).
  2. Blend the beetroots with the water until they will be completely pureed.
  3. In a bowl, mix well the beets puree, the eggs, the sugar and the butter.
  4. Add little by little the flour, the cocoa powder, the baking powder and soda and mix until the batter will be smooth and homogeneous.
  5. Grease two 11,5 cm (4 ½ inch) springform pans and divide the batter equally between the pans.
  6. Bake at 175°C (350F) for 40 minutes or until a toothpick will come out of the batter completely clean.
For the frosting & Assembly:
  1. Boil the water and pour it in a glass with the rose petals and the honey. Mix and let it infuse for about 15 minutes.
  2. Whip the cream till firm, add the cream cheese and the vanilla sugar and whip still.
  3. With a sieve, filter the rose water and add it to the frosting. Whip still for a few seconds.
  4. Once cooled, remove the cakes from the pans, level them out and cut them lengthwise into two with the help of a break knife.
  5. Place the first of four disks on a plate, cover it with some frosting and repeat the process until you’ll have used all the disks.
  6. Frost the cake with the remaining frosting. Refrigerate the cake for 20/30 minutes before frosting it if it feels unstable.
  7. Decorate by blowing rose petals on the cake.
Notes
Yields two 11,5 cm (4 ½ inch) cakes
Recipe by The Adagio Blog at https://adagioblog.com/beet-red-velvet-cake-with-rose-frosting/