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Chocolate Cauliflower Cake with Salted Cinnamon Caramel Icing

Name: Chocolate Cauliflower Cake with Salted Cinnamon Caramel Icing
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 60 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 2 cups (75g) raw cauliflower florets; 100 g (100g) plain full-fat yogurt; 1/2 cup (100ml) rapeseed or vegetable oil; 3/4 cup (175g) sugar; 2 eggs; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 2 cups (250g) plain (all-purpose) flour; 1/2 cup (75g) cocoa powder; 2 teaspoons baking powder; 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; ¼ teaspoon salt; 3/4 cup (180ml)buttermilk ((or milk with 1 teaspoon of lemon juice stirred in)); 1/2 cup (115g) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 1 cup (200g) brown sugar; 3-4 tablespoons milk; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; 1 cup powdered icing sugar

Published: May 5, 2015 · Modified: Mar 5, 2020 by Kate Hackworthy · 47 Comments

Cauliflower cake! This decadent chocolate cake filled with pureed cauliflower (you can’t taste it!) and topped with a salted cinnamon caramel frosting.

My blog is two! Happy blog birthday to meeeeeee!

Time has really flown by and a lot has happened in the last two years. I started the blog as way to cope after being made redundant at the end of a year’s maternity leave with my daughter, when my son was two. I felt rubbish and wanted an outlet for any creativity that had been buried under the newborn haze of sleepless nights, as well as something new to focus on besides work. I had been experimenting with adding vegetables to cakes since my son’s first birthday, so Veggie Desserts was suddenly borne.

Over these two years I’ve learned how to blog, take pictures and develop recipes. The blogging community has been very helpful and supportive. My vegetable cakes slowly became more and more experimental; I started with the now-ubiquitous Chocolate Beetroot Cake and my recipes moved to the definitely more unusual Barbecued Celeriac and Apple Cake with Apple Ice Cream and Salted Bourbon Butterscotch.

I’ve been so pleased with the reaction to my recipes. Often people seem a bit confused at first, but then when they realise that you can’t taste the vegetables (I trial them until they work without any veg taste), they’re usually game to try more.

I’ve been honoured to have been Jamie Oliver’s Food Blog of the Month, won Best Food Blog at the UK National Blog Awards 2014, one of The Guardian’s Sustainable Bloggers, nominated and shortlisted for a load of other awards, and I was chosen as one of Top Sante Magazine’s Best Bloggers of 2014.

My blog’s original premise, vegetables in desserts, is very niche, so the sheer volume of international press it has garnered has seriously floored me. A three page spread in the Vancouver Sun, which was serialised across Canada was amazing. The Telegraph sent a photographer to take pictures of me for an article, I went to London for an amazing photoshoot and had my hair and makeup done all glam-like and made to feel so special. I’ve been surprised and pleased to have been asked to do so many interviews about my blog. My recipes have been in Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Good Housekeeping and so many others. I’ve got a massive stack of newspaper and magazine clippings that I’m so, so proud of. I was at such a low point when the blog started, so very low, that I don’t mean to boast about any successes, but I’m just really happy with all of the opportunities.

As my blog grows up, I’ve started to branch into vegetable-heavy breakfasts, snacks, drinks and other meals. A girl can only eat so many desserts so I’ve started to share the vegetable-heavy meals that my family enjoys, particularly on Instagram. I’m passionate about veg at every meal and would probably collapse in shock like a damsel in too tight a corset if there wasn’t anything green on my plate. Kale is my friend.

Let’s share this birthday cake.

This decadent chocolate cake is filled with pureed cauliflower (you can’t taste it!) and topped with a rather sinful salted cinnamon caramel frosting. It is a celebration after all. It’s a celebration that I’d like to share with all of my lovely readers. Thanks for your comments, likes and tweets, for sending me pictures of my recipes that you’ve made, for all of the support. I really do appreciate it all so very much.

Get the recipe for Chocolate Cauliflower Cake!

Eat your vegetables, everyone. In cake.

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