Chocolate Beetroot Muffins

Healthy and deliciously decadent. Adding beetroot to your muffins is a really great way sneak vegetables into your diet and you wouldn't even know they are in these yummy muffins. The beetroot brings out the lovely rich chocolatey flavour and creates a moist texture also a subtle earthy flavor. A winner all round in my house and fun for the kids to help making these too.

Ingredients:

Plain flour

190g

Cocoa Powder

80g

Baking powder

2 tsp

Caster sugar

200g

Cooked Beetroot

250g

Eggs

3 Large (4 medium)

Coconut oil (or any other flavourless oil)

200ml

Vanilla Extract

1 tsp

Powdered Sugar - To dust (Optional)

1 tbsp

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 180C/355F/Gas 4, Line 12 cup muffin tray.
2. Sift Flour, Cocoa powder, Baking powder in a large mixing bowl and add sugar and mix until combined.
3. Add Beetroot, Vanilla, Oil and Eggs (adding one at a time) to a blender Puree until smooth, this sould create quite a runny gloopy mixture.
4. Make a well in the dry ingredients and pour in the Beetroot mix and lightly combine be sure not to over mix.
5. Spoon into the 12 muffin cases
6. Put in the oven on the middle shelf for 30 minutes
7. Once cooked cool on a wire rack
8. Dust with powdered sugar and enjoy!