An easy recipe for a Beet Crust Dessert Pizza: a sweet and colorful way to sneak more veggies into your diet! Hooray!
Today I bring you a little healthy and a little sweet all wrapped up in one fabulous gluten free (and red!) package all courtesy of Shashi from Runnin' Srilankan! I found Shashi over on Spiced (you remember David with the Parmesan rolls right?) and I couldn't help but be pulled in by her bubbly personality and health-food focused blog!
If you are ever wondering how to sneak more beets into your diet, Shashi has you covered! If you think this pizza is genius, you must check out her Beet Hot Chocolate, Beet Crepes, or these Chocolate Beet Cookies!
I discovered that Shashi lives in Atlanta right before I had to leave for NYC, but you'd better believe that we'll be meeting up as soon as I get back!
Hi American Heritage Cooking Fans - I am Shashi from RunninSriLankan and I am so honored to be here today, posting for master cupcake extraordinaire and fellow Atlanta Blogger, Lindsey! Lindsey and I "met" through comments on David's blog and I have had to slap myself silly whenever I have found myself scrolling through her drool-inducing posts ever since!
While I wait for those discounted candies to go on sale, my daughter and I will be chowing on some dessert beet pizza! The beet pizza base isn't too different from my past beet pizzas - but it does have one teaspoon cane sugar and teaspoon vanilla in it.
I baked the base first and let it come to room temperature before topping it with whipped coconut cream, chocolate and peanut butter chips and melted chocolate and melted peanut butter. This dessert beet pizza is quite popular at our home and we have also topped it with whipped cream instead of the whipped coconut. One time, my daughter even insisted we top it with frozen yogurt and homemade hard-shell -and seeing she had a healthy dose of veggies in her dessert, I couldn't argue!
Lindsey, here! You should check out Savory Spin for more healthy meals & treats!
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Beet Crust Dessert Pizza
Ingredients
Beet Crust:
- 1 cup roasted and pureed beets (I roasted 2 beets at 400 for 45 minutes)
- ¾ cup almond meal
- ⅓ cup whole wheat flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 tsps baking powder
- 1 tablespoon melted coconut oil
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon cane sugar
Toppings:
- 1 ½ cups Chocolate chips
- 1 ½ cups Peanut butter chips
- Coconut cream or whipped cream or ice cream or frozen yogurt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375F
- Mix all ingredients together and bake 25-28 mins. Let cool.
- Then top with coconut cream or whipped cream and ½ cup chocolate chips and ½ cup peanut butter chips. Melt the remaining cup of chocolate chips and drizzle over the pizza- repeat with the peanut butter chips.
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I love it, really a fantastic guest post this is from Lindsey! Thank you for great share.
Thanks, Victoria!
This pizza is gorgeous and sounds like it would be absolutely amazing!
It's so colorful! It's like an abstract work of art 🙂
Love seeing Shashi here! This dessert pizza looks gorgeous and such a creative and brilliant way to sneak in some veggies! The color is just gorgeous and perfect for Valentine's Day! Great recipe, thanks for sharing Shashi and Lindsey!
This is so original and looks so festive for Valentine's Day! I've never tried a dessert pizza before and really need to -- it would be one tasty, fun dessert! And I need to start scouring the shelves for discounted chocolate after Valentine's Day, too!
A fantastic guest post this is! Waw even! The dessert pizza looks just stunning & Ooh so inviting too!
MMMMMMMM,....!!!!
I love Shashi's blog! Her recipes - and posts! -- are always so much fun. Witness this pizza, for example. Beet crust? Amazing idea! I love what she's been doing with beets. This is so creative -- thanks.
It's crazy right?! It's incredible the ideas she dreams up!