Chocolate & Beetroot Cup Cakes

Yes! Chocolate and beetroot! It’s an amazing combination! Beetroot is an excellent detoxifier and cleanser, helping the liver do its job, and when combined with the taste of raw cacao it makes these cupcakes deliciously healthy. Plus they are grain free, sugar free, and dairy free.

Ingredients

• 4 organic eggs
• ½ cup of Coconut Flour
• ½ cup of xylitol
• 1 cooked beetroot chopped, (takes about 45 minutes in the oven)
• 1 tbsp of Cacao powder
• 1 tbsp of coconut oil
• ½ cup of coconut milk
• pinch of sea salt
• pinch of vanilla powder
• few drops of stevia

Blend the eggs in a blender, add in xylitol and beetroot. Blend again.

Next add the coconut milk, coconut oil, sea salt, stevia and vanilla. Blend again. Lastly add the coconut flour and cacao powder and blend well until thoroughly mixed.

Spoon mixture into cupcake holders and place in the oven for 20-25 minutes at 200C.

Enjoy!

Tuesday’s Tasty Treats is a weekly column bringing you the  best, most delicious and easy raw food recipes to help maintain and support a healthy lifestyle. Brought to you by Chakra Center’s own raw food goddess, Sarah Hook.