Williamsport's News Radio   Recipe: Chocolate Beet Cake  Posted
Friday, June 14th 2013 @ 12pm  *The below recipe is from Heather
Christo, a professionaly trained chef who graduated with honors
from Le Cordon Bleu in San Francisco and is an interior designer
on the new primetime HGTV show "Rescue My Renovation."   "This
is absolutely one of the best chocolate cakes I have ever
had—and my husband’s favorite. And no, you did not read this
wrong. It is chockful of beets. This recipe actually started as
a day dream. I saw a blissfully, insanely fluorescent purple
cake—just like the juice that comes from a raw beet. I was so
excited to bring this cake to life, but it turns out beets in
baked goods come out a bit of a muddy reddish brown. I had to
start over. This time I thought, why not take the moistness and
earthy flavor from the beets and complement them with rich
chocolate and a tiny touch of cinnamon? I added cocoa to the
cake batter and the result was the most intensely moist and
chocolaty cake I have ever ha