In today’s Food section of the newspaper, there was an article about sneaking all kinds of odd vegetables into sweet recipes.

Now, I must admit, that I have no problem whatsoever with Carrot Cake (in fact, it is my absolute FAVORITE Homemade Gourmet dessert).  Pumpkin bread and zucchini bread don’t cause me any concern either.  I even make a Butternut Squash pie that is quite yummy.  But some of the recipes in this article made me want to scream, “You put WHAT in there???”

The cover had this beautiful chocolate Bundt cake that had pureed beets - EEEKKK!  The other two - Green Tomato Cake and Carrot-Parsnip Cake didn’t make me hungry at all.  But the ickiest sounding by far was the Mocha Sauerkraut Layer Cake with Milk Chocolare Icing.  Heavens, how nasty does that sound???

I must say that while my taste buds have not indicated the slightest interest in these recipes, I think that my natural curiosity may get the better of me.  After all, we have a dog, so if it is really icky the dog will have a treat (am I awful or what?!?!).

I am trying to be open minded here and of course we always want to be healthy and eat more veggies.  Do you have any sweet recipes that use veggies?  By the way, simply “having” the recipe doesn’t count, you must actually have eaten it.  Ha! - Cindy

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