Allotment Cakes

I've had carrot cake before - it's my husbands favourite. He also loves beetroot. Since I've started this cooking blog, little one has started happily munching raw carrot, but beetroot is spat out all over my favourite jeans. Not one to shy away from a challenge though, I've created this lovely vegetable cake recipe. Surprisingly it is still sweet and doesnt simply taste or look like beetroot. Ha! Mummy wins another round of vegetable tennis. Enjoy!

Ingredients
300g self raising flour
2 teaspoons cinnamon
200g caster sugar
4 eggs
250ml oil
2 large raw carrots, grated
2 cooked beetroots, grated
1 raw potato, grated
2 teaspoons cocoa powder (optional)

Method
Put the potato, carrot and beetroot in a bowl and let little one have a look. Mine liked to get in there and mess about with it. Next crack the eggs in the bowl and mix them in. Little one is 2 and he's seen me do this so many times that he grabbed an egg, smacked it on the bowl and cracked it in himself. I was impressed to say the least! Throw in the oil and mix everything to a splodgy yet colourful mess.

Sieve in the flour and cocoa powder if you are using it. Add the cinnamon and mix together. You should have what looks like salmon pink goo! Put in about 25-30 small cake cases and cook in the oven at about 180 for approx 20 mins for this many cakes. Smaller numbers of cakes will take less time to cook.