Ketchup, Avocado, Potatoes: Some New Ingredients Used In Baking Cakes

We start picturing chocolate, butter, dry fruits and something sweet when we think of cakes. But now while baking a cake, many are adding ingredients that one would never have dreamt of.

Here are some of these eyebrow-raising cake ingredients, reports huffingtonpost.com.

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* Double decker chocolate cake: The cake layer contains beet, cauliflower, maple syrup, cocoa and flaxseeds. The top layer is tofu.

* Fudgy avocado brownies: Avocado is just plant butter.

* Chocolate lard bourbon cake: Lard is pig fat.

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* Ketchup cake: The name says it all.

* St. Patrick's Day chocolate cake: It contains mashed potatoes!

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* Spiced tomato soup can cakes: A cake made of tomato soup makes many wonder why.

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