Things I’m eating: chocolate spice beet cake
“What the heck is beet cake?” I can hear you asking. It’s exactly what it sounds like: instead of using oil or applesauce or sour cream, you moisten a cake with pureed beets. (Confession time: the beets I had were rather small, so I had to top off my beets with applesauce.) I boiled and pureed a few beets, mixed up a shockingly magenta batter, baked, and let it cool as I went about my Sunday. The finished product had no color, odor, or texture reminiscent of beets. Despite all this, I’m quite picky, and I waited for two friends to pronounce the cake delicious before I would dig in. They were right!