ABC Chocolate Cake (with apple-beet-carrot pulp)

There were several mornings when I made juice with only apple, beet root and carrot. And an inch of ginger. Since my regular item, i.e. celery, was absent, I decided to keep the juicing pulp to make a chocolate cake. I find that with celery in the pulp, the texture is too fibrous to bake cakes or breads.

This is a very moist cake.

ABC Chocolate Cake

Ingredients:
1 and 2/3 cups of ABC pulp (apple-beet-carrot)
3/4 cup of flour
1 tsp bicarbonate soda
1/2 tsp of salt
2 tbsp of sugar, adjust according to taste - this makes a minimally sweet cake
1 tbsp of cocoa powder
2 eggs, beaten
1/4 cup of vegetable oil

Method:
1. Pre-heat the oven at 180C.
2. Mix pulp with flour, soda bicarbonate, salt, sugar and cocoa powder first.
3. Add the beaten eggs and oil to the mixture. Mix evenly.
4. Line a small cake tin with baking paper. Pour the cake mix into it. Smooth the surface.
5. Bake the cake at 180C for about 25-30 mins, or until an inserted skewer comes out clean.
6. Let the cake cool before cutting.

Very moist chocolate cake with lots of fiber.x

A lot of pulp.

Mix pulp with flour, soda bicarbonate, salt, sugar and cocoa powder first.

Mixed with egg and oil.

Smooth out the cake mixture in the tin.

Baking at 180C, about 25-30 mins, until an inserted skewer comes out clean.

Cooling the cake. Tea and breakfast ...

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