Yum! Fresh beetroot |
At the children's garden party I held a couple of weeks ago we made lemon and beetroot fairy cakes. They went down a storm! You could only taste the beetroot slightly - and that's only because I was looking for it. The children didn't notice the beetroot as the lemon was the more dominant in flavour. The cakes were delicious and a wonderful pinkish colour.
Enjoy baking!
Lemon & Beetroot fairy cakes
Ingredients:
200g plain flour
200g butter at room temperature
150g sugar
1 tsp baking powder
2 eggs
1 small beetroot, finely grated
Juice and rind of 1 lemon
Method:
Preheat oven to 180 C/gas mark 6
- Place 24 fairy cake cases into cupcake tins
- Place all the ingredients in a bowl together and mix for a couple of minutes with an electric whisk
- Spoon the mixture into the muffin case. (The cases should all be around 2/3rds full)
- Bake in the oven for 10-12 minutes until the top of the muffins feel firm to touch. These muffins stay very moist due to the lemon juice and beetroot
- Once cool, eat just as or top with icing of your choice
Go to http://www.lovebeetroot.co.uk/healthy_info/index.asp#.Ufu4rTtwbIU for more information regarding the wonders of beetroot!
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