Glamour Puds

Eric Lanlard from Channel 4 show Glamour Puds dishes up a dessert with a difference - beetroot and hazelnut cake

• 200ml vegetable oil
• 250g golden caster sugar
• 150g raw beetroot, grated
• 100g Walnuts, chopped, plus extra to decorate
• 100g chopped toasted hazelnuts, plus extra to decorate
• 3 Eggs, separated
• 1 tsp Baking powder
• 2 tsp Mixed spice
• 3 tsp Milk
• 200g Flour
• 4 tbsp apricot jam

How to make beetroot and hazelnut cake

1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC/gas 6.

2. Pour the oil and sugar in a bowl and whisk.

3. Mix in the beetroot, walnuts and hazelnuts, then add the egg yolks, baking powder and mixed spices and whisk in.

4. Mix in the milk and the flour.

5. In a separate bowl whisk the egg whites using a hand mixer or a stand mixer at full speed until firm peaks form.

6. Fold the whisked egg white into the beetroot mixture.

7. Place the mixture in a greased 20cm cake tin and bake for 30 minutes in the oven.

8. Cool on a wire rack. Heat the apricot jam and glaze the cake with it.

© Eric Lanlard