Tomato-Cocoa Bundt Cake – And We Must Bake Cakes with Vegetables

I don’t know how it is in your country, but in Hungary it is trendy to bake cakes with vegetables. Everyone uses carrot (it’s nothing special, isn’t it?), avocado and zucchini (that’s a little more interesting, though). But I wanted to do something really crazy! What about baking with tomatoes!? Anyway, we use cinnamon to season foods containing tomatoes to make them sweeter. So it must work! And I tell you that it really worked!

Tomato-Cocoa Bundt Cake

Ingredients:

-          120 g flour

-          35 g cocoa powder

-          12 g baking powder

-          5 eggs

-          165 g sugar

-          100 ml olive oil

-          100 ml mashed tomatoes (passata)

-          Pinch of salt

-          Pinch of cinnamon

-          Butter and flour (for the Bundt pan)

For the glaze:

-          Confectioner’s sugar

-          Orange liqueur or orange juice (to your taste)

1. Stir all the ingredients with a food processor, then add the tomatoes, and mix it well.
2. Preheat oven to 160°C. Butter the Bundt pan, and then sprinkle it with flour. Pour the batter into the pan and bake it for 1 hour.
3. Mix the confectioner’s sugar with the juice or liqueur to get a thick but pourable glaze and pour it on the baked Bundt cake.