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A non Deleuzian recipe

Blad was interred to the munching of this alternative dessert. It is only slightly purple, has a distinctive flavour (!) and moist, velvety texture. Green and Blacks put it in the 'create a stir' section of their addicts cookbook : Unwrapped.

Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 50 minutes
Use: Tin (approx 18cm or 7in)

Ingredients:
100g drinking chocolate
230g self-raising flour
200g golden caster sugar
100g dark chocolate (min 60% cocoa solids)
125g unsalted butter
250g cooked beetroot
3 large eggs
Icing sugar

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 180C, 350F or gas mark 5.
Butter and flour your cake tin.
Sift together the drinking chocolate and the self-raisign flour then mix in the sugar.
Melt the chocolate and butter together in a heatproof bowl suspended over a saucepan of barely simmering water. Puree the beetroot ina food processor, whisk the eggs, then stir them into the beetroot. Add the beetroot and the chocolate mixtures to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly together.

Pour the mixture into the cake tin. Bake for 50 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave the cake to stand in its tin for 10 minutes before turning it out on a wire rack to cool. Serve dusted with icing sugar. Creme fraiche if desired.