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The Key To Moist Chocolate Cake Is Actually A Vegetable
By Corin MJ Bae
There are many ways to take your homemade chocolate cake to the next level, but if you want a moist and tasty chocolate cake, you need a jar of pickled beets.
The beets introduce a ton of beneficial antioxidants through their natural red pigments, as well as essential vitamins and minerals like folate, manganese, potassium, and iron.
It also gives you a moist and decadent texture without any dairy, technically making it a lactose-free hack for chocolate cake.
All you have to do is purée a can of pickled beets and use it in tandem with either vegetable shortening or vegetable oil in place of the dairy elements.
While most traditional recipes include eggs (as well as heavy cream in the ganache or frosting), you can simply take them out to make a completely vegan chocolate beet cake.
Because the beets and baking soda do most of the texture work, adding vinegar, cornstarch, and baking powder should be enough to compensate for the lack of eggs.