Secret Chocolate Cake

Recipe from Simply in Season, by Mark Beach & Julie Kauffman –a children’s cookbook.

Submitted by member Rachel Green, who says, “It was FANTASTIC!!”

2 cups beets (about 3 beets)
½ cup applesauce
1 ½ cups sugar
½ cup oil
½ cup plain yogurt
3 eggs
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla
1 ¼ cups flour
1 cup whole wheat flour
½ cup baking cocoa
1 ½ teaspoon. baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup chocolate chips

Preheat oven to 350°. Boil beets for 20 minutes. Drain, cool, peel
and chop. Puree with applesauce in a blender and set aside. In a
large mixing bowl, beat the sugar, oil, yogurt, eggs and vanilla, for
2 minutes. Mix into the beet mixture, the flours, cocoa, baking
soda and salt. Pour ½ of the mixture into a greased bundt pan.
Sprinkle the chocolate chips on top of the batter in the bundt
pan, and then pour the remaining batter on top. Bake for 45-50
minutes.