18 beet cake recipes

Beet cake with orange cream cheese frosting uses grated fresh beets for a deeply moist, spiced layer cake with a rosy hue. Topped with toasted walnuts, it's a lighter twist on carrot cake.

Chocolate cake made with pureed red beets and melted unsweetened chocolate. Incredibly moist, deepens in flavor overnight, and finished with a simple powdered sugar dusting.

Strong flavors from both beer and cheddar cheese, if you love both beer and cheddar cheese, you will absolutely love this bread. It's also so easy to make, needless to say it disappears very fast, so make sure to bake enough loaves.

Ale Bread: a no-yeast quick bread leavened with a bottle of ale and baking powder, optional green onions and sharp cheese baked in. Hollow-tap-test crust, ready in under an hour.

Key Largo cake made with tropical liqueur and fruit Jello baked into the batter, soaked with a boozy powdered sugar glaze, and topped with whipped cream and tropical fruit.

Crispy Belgian apple fritters made with just 3 ingredients: sliced apple rings dipped in a light beer batter and fried golden. Serve with custard or a dusting of powdered sugar.

Spicy beer-batter hush puppies loaded with chopped tomatoes, green pepper, onion, and red pepper flakes. Deep-fried golden in under 5 minutes per batch.

Old-fashioned mincemeat pie filling made with real ground beef, apples, raisins, cider, and warm baking spices. A blue-ribbon recipe that freezes in batches so you're always ready for pie season.

Tastes delicious when filled with very lean beef cooked with a little green pepper, lean shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, tomato, and a good shot of hot sauce. Of course a nice Mexican beer with it makes it extra good.

Italian dome cake with amaretto-soaked sponge and whipped cream filling studded with toasted hazelnuts, almonds, and chocolate. No-bake showstopper.

A vintage date bread baked right inside empty beer cans with maple syrup, pecans, and real beer in the batter. Yields perfectly round slices and makes a charming homemade gift.

Impossible beef and tomato pie makes its own crust from Bisquick, eggs, and milk poured over layered beef, Swiss cheese, tomatoes, and onions. A self-crusting one-dish dinner.

Curried ground beef and baked bean casserole with chopped apple stirred in and sliced apple on top. A sweet-savory weeknight bake with warm spices and just a handful of ingredients.

Easy lasagna made with a Bisquick batter instead of noodles, layered with ground beef, spaghetti sauce, zucchini, cottage cheese, and melted mozzarella. Feeds 15 in under an hour.

Freezer mix pizza with a quick Bisquick-yeast crust topped with beef-tomato sauce, Italian seasoning, cheddar, mozzarella, and Parmesan. A homemade pizza using pantry staples.

Coffeecake Eschmann with a tender vanilla cake base and a thick cinnamon-butter streusel topping, baked in a sheet pan and dusted with powdered sugar. Feeds a crowd easily.