Must add beets!

This week I tried out Jessica Seinfield's chocolate beet cake from her Deceptively Delicious cookbook (thanks again Mom!). It wasn't bad, but it wasn't that great. Granted, I didn't make the cream cheese frosting for it, but my chocolate frosting was REALLY good. So good that I was eating spoonfuls of it.

Since I wasn't fully satisfied with my first cake, I bought a Duncan Hines Triple Chocolate cake mix and added about 3/4 cup of beets to it (I probably could have done a full cup) and it was so delicious and moist. And you couldn't taste the beets at all! It made me feel a little bit better about eating large slices of cake.

And now the details of the rest of the cake, because the other things I did made it even better. As Jon just told me, "it was almost an emotional experience it was that good."

I added some semi sweet chocolate chips to the leftover chocolate frosting I had (which made the REALLY good frosting even better!) and put that between my two 9" rounds. I frosted the whole thing with cream cheese frosting (from a can) and sprinkled more chocolate chips on top.

It was really good. I don't usually like chocolate cake, but this cake won me over. The cream cheese frosting really balanced out the chocolate. It was splendid with a nice big glass of milk. Nothing inspires me to drink a full glass or 2 of milk more than a rich yummy treat.

So there you have it, add beets to your cake mixes and enjoy extra moistness and a little extra healthiness that you wouldn't have otherwise had.