To think carrot is the only vegetable that can segue between the sweet and savoury world.

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Yesterday I tried a slice of this new fangled chocolate beetroot cake. It was like gnawing on a piece of the Berlin Wall. And there was a distinct taste of..............beetroot.

Why do people insist that beetroot cake works? The only way I can see it working is as a blunt implement with which to knock out an assailant.

I've heard rumours of courgette cake too and I have to say, I'm sceptical.

Sweet potato

And I haven't even mentioned the horror that is pumpkin pie.

I got some red food colouring and it made buns taste like iron filled beetroot.

Beetroot in a cake?! Yak

I saw veg crisps for the first time. Carrot, turnip and parsnip in one bag. That intrigued me

Parsnip cake is lovely. Also had a parsnip and sprout cake at Christmas, which was surprisingly tasty. You can apparently make a fantastic chocolate pudding out of avocado, but I haven't done that.

They used to use parsnip in cakes in WWII. And beetroot is still used.

I've heard you can hide courgette pretty effectively in chocolate cake (haven't tried it, though)

Parsnips, sweet potato..

I have had a chocolate cake made of beetroot at a friend's, it was amazing!! Maybe thw one you tried wasn't well made...?

Sorry - 'and beetroot cake can be nice but I think you really have to like beetroot in the first place'.

What about tomato and rhubarb?

Also had a parsnip and sprout cake at Christmas, which was surprisingly tasty.

LIES.

Butternut squash...

Okay, I'll allow rhubarb. Good with duck, good in an array of puddings.

Beetroot chocolate cake does work, if made correctly it's very rich and chocolatey but with a really deep earthy flavour. Has to be with dark chocolate though.

Courgette and carrot cake is nice, not hugely cakey though. It borders the lines.

Also is advacado a vegetable? Vegans use it to make chocolate frosting and it's gorgeous. Fresh and light gooey yummyness.

I have just been experimenting with swede and onions...wrecked a perfectly delicious Victoria sponge.

Courgette cake is nice.

Parsnip crisps are lovely (beetroot crisps are bitter but look nice)

Cherries? Cranberries?

Swede and onion Victoria sponge!!

Have you been under a lot of pressure recently?

onepiece that sounds a bit like a Letitia Cropley recipe

I've made a chocolate courgette cake and no-one could tell that courgettes were in it!

I like beetroot and I like chocolate, but I made a chocolate beetroot cake once (glut of beetroot and getting desperate ti use them up) and I am with you OP, didn't like it at all. DH and DD liked it though. Well they said they did.

At the weekend though I had courgette in a chocolate cake at my sisters and that was inoffensive

I ate beetroot cake once. Unbeknown to me, I had norovirus or something similar so saw the beetroot cake again later in the evening.

I will never eat beetroot cake again!

But that's not the point of the thread!

Avocado and ripe banana pureed together make a really lovely dessert.

buzz pretty sure they are fruit???

Sorry for my silly post.
On a more sensible note, I think parsnips are generally sweeter than carrots and would be a useful thing to try. :)

Hmmm I adore avocados but I'm majorly sceptical that they transition well to the pudding world. There have been some spectacular fails on Masterchef with avocado chocolate mousses and avocado cheesecakes.

I had a gorgeous beetroot cake. I was really surprised at how delicious it was. I think you just had a bad bit of beetroot cake.