I made a chocolate cake with red kidney beans and it was very good.

Go ahead and try them. If you mash up the beans, you'll never know they're in there.

My family used to take part in a local "pinto bean cookoff" and we tried all kinds of recipes. I won a few awards with pinto bean cake, pinto bean pie, and even pinto bean fudge.

I love trying recipes with unusual ingredients........such as beet cake or spaghetti squash pie. It's a lot of fun, and the results will often surprise you.