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Baking with vegetables

Bananas aren’t the only fresh produce that can be turned into a cake when they’re past their best. We love baking with vegetables too. Beetroot, pumpkin, courgette, carrot and parsnip, you name it, we’ve baked with it.
Beetroot and chocolate cake
by Mary Berry

Mary Berry's chocolate traybake includes grated beetroot which makes for a beautifully moist, sweet cake. It’s topped with a chocolate feathered icing – which looks impressive, but is so easy to do.

Cakes and baking

Carrot and courgette muffins

by Kate Morris and Sally Brown
Cakes and baking

Beetroot seed cake

by Nigel Slater
Cakes and baking

Courgette cake

by Valentine Warner
Cakes and baking

Parsnip, apple and raisin mini-muffins

by Ramona Andrews
Cakes and baking

Pumpkin cake

by Emily Angle
Cakes and baking

Beetroot chocolate cake with cream cheese icing

by Mary Berry
Cakes and baking

Easy courgette cake

by Izy Hossack
Cakes and baking

Beetroot chocolate cake

by Nigel Slater
Cakes and baking

Courgette cake

by Valentine Warner
Cakes and baking

Carrot cake loaf

by Rachel Allen
Cakes and baking

Ginger and walnut carrot cake

by Nigella Lawson
Cakes and baking

Carrot and sultana cake with creamy orange frosting

by The Hairy Bikers
Cakes and baking
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