Blush Cake (with Beets)

Ingredients

1 1/4 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1 tsp. baking powder
2 eggs
1/2 cup red beets, cooked and grated
1 1/2 tbsp. honey
1 tbsp. vanilla
1/2 cup + 2 tbsp. butter, melted
1/4 cup milk

Directions

Mix flour, sugar, cocoa and baking powder in large mixing bowl.
Set aside.

In a separate bowl beat eggs, beets, honey, vanilla, butter and
milk.

Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix well pour into 8
inch square baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 30-35
minutes.

Frost with cream cheese icing.

Cream Cheese Icing

1- 3 oz. package cream cheese, softened
1 Tbsp. milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 1/2 cups confectioners sugar

Blend cream cheese, milk, vanilla together. Gradually add
confectioners sugar. Mix well. If too thick add more milk 1 tsp.
at a time until desired consistency.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by
twos and threes by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of
roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters,
aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole
world. ~Kate Douglas Wiggin