Which vegetables work best in sweet bakes? “One of my first recipes was a spin on carrot cake using beetroot, parsnips, carrot and sweet potato,” Jones says. Ho favours root veg – beetroot, parsnip, sweet potato, ginger – for their earthiness, as well as the ease with which they can be incorporated into bakes. “Pureed pumpkin, sweet potato and starchy things work really well in anything creamy such as cheesecakes,” Lamb says . All-round baking guru Dan Lepard, meanwhile, turns to baked sweet potato in brownies, to keep “that trademark texture and flavour, but at the same time making it less fattening”.

Source: The Guardian June 15, 2021 12:56 UTC