Chocolate Beet Cupcakes will give you a triple whammy. Get your
chocolate fix, eat beets and benefit from a good dose of antioxidants
that both ingredients lend to these decadent little treats.

Chocolate Beet Cupcakes

2 cups sugar
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons canola oil
4 large eggs
3 cups shredded raw red beets

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place paper cupcake liners in baking
tins.
Sift sugar, flour, salt, baking powder and baking soda together.
Melt chocolate with 2 tablespoons butter in heavy saucepan over low
heat, stirring until mixture is smooth. Transfer chocolate mixture to
large mixing bowl. Allow to cool slightly. Add canola oil and eggs.
Blend well. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with shredded
beets. Spoon batter into prepared baking tins. Bake in 350-degree
oven for about 20 minutes, or until wooden pick inserted into center
of cupcake comes out clean. Do not over-bake. Remove cupcakes from
tins and allow to cool on wire rack.

Makes 22 to 24 cupcakes.


Fudge Frosting

4 tablespoons butter
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
2-2/3 to 3 cups sifted powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 1/2 tablespoons milk or half-and-half
1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla

In medium saucepan, melt butter with unsweetened chocolate. Blend in
powdered sugar, salt, milk and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Spread on
baked and cooled cupcakes.

Tip from the cook

- I like to give the baking tins a light coating of non-stick cooking
spray before placing the paper cupcake liners. This prevents any
batter that may overflow from the liners while baking from sticking to
the pan.

Sue Doeden is a food writer and photographer from Bemidji, Minn., and
a former Fargo resident. Her columns are published in seven Forum
Communications newspapers. Readers can reach Doeden at


Lynn from Fargo
(Gotta give credit - I used to write this column!)

Lynn from Fargo > wrote in news:b7b111c4-c24c-4560-a8da-
:

> Chocolate Beet Cupcakes will give you a triple whammy. Get your
> chocolate fix, eat beets and benefit from a good dose of antioxidants
> that both ingredients lend to these decadent little treats.
>
> Chocolate Beet Cupcakes
>


*YUM*!! They are now on the menu.

I have heard of chocolate and beetroot in a cake before, but never thought
to try, or look for it.

Thanks for the recipe....... which is now filed and printed :-)


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Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


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