Honest truth about beetroot chocolate cake is it tastes like hell, not chocolate...(Features)

From: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales) | Date: October 6, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: By Graeme Whitfield Western Mail

Recently, i had some chocolate cake made from beetroot and I don't mind telling you: it was godawful.

You may, like me, have come across chocolate cake made from beetroot on the Channel 4 programme Cook Yourself Thin, in which four ridiculously posh girls (one of them's called Gizzi, for the love of God) try to kid you that you can eat all the things you like and not get fat.

So they do pizzas but on pitta ...

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