This homemade Red Velvet Beet Nutella is easy to whiz up and has a portion of veg in it! The beets add a great red colour and some added goodness. This nutella is vegan and healthier.
Red Velvet Beet Nutella
Yes, that’s right. Homemade Nutella – with beets instead of nasties. The Nutella advert always annoys me – insinuating that it is great for kids as it is made with mainly hazelnuts and cocoa powder when it is really mainly sugar and oil. Not for my kids.
This one, however, really is actually filled with nuts and cocoa, as well as beets!
No emulsifiers or added fat. So if you smear a bit on your toast you get a bit of veg and healthy nuts. Yay!
It’s so rich and delicious that I’d even use it as icing.
Tips
This is really easy to make – particularly if you buy de-skinned hazelnuts. If not, after roasting them, I found the easiest way to remove the skins was to rub them, still warm, between two damp microfibre cloths. It wasn’t a huge job, but if you can avoid it you might as well. Puree the nuts and beetroot as long as you can to get it smooth, but since this is homemade, don’t expect it to be quite as plastic-smooth as store-bought.
This week
I’ve had a rather busy week:
1. My Kale and Orange Cupcakes are on the FRONT COVER of Brilliant Baking magazine next to… Eric Lanlard! Swoon.
2. Since putting a little plastic computer in the bathroom, the little ones now enjoy enjoy a bit of ‘me time’ and have stopped waiting until AFTER they’ve mucked their pants to go to the loo. Surf and turf.
3. Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been? I’ve been to London to visit the Queen. Well, I didn’t see royalty, but my sister was a good replacement. Getting home on the train was, well, challenging, after the bar.
4. I won the golden spoon for my Cauliflower Banana Bundt Cake for the Sunday Baking Club’s ‘experimental’ theme. Funnily enough, it wasn’t the cauliflower that was experimental to me, but the bundt.
Red Velvet
Now, I know I’ve been calling everything Red Velvet lately.
From beet hot chocolate to beet chocolate mousse, but it just makes the humble purple root seem so glamorous.
A stage name, if you will. Like Ziggy Stardust or Cyd Cherise.
Erm, yeah. I actually just wrote some foolish drivel about beets and Broadway shows and posh dinners but really, this is homemade Nutella and I need to get a grip.
And you need me to get to the recipe.
Beet dessert recipes
Looking for more desserts with beetroot? Try these:
Slow Cooker Beet Chocolate Cake with Beet and Vanilla Topping
Beet Nut Butter Cups (vegan)
Beetroot Raspberry Chia Jam, vegan
Beetroot Chocolate Protein Balls
Red Velvet Beet Nutella
Ingredients
- 2 cups 2 cups (200g) hazelnuts
- 1 1/4 cup 1 ¼ cups (125g) cooked peeled beetroot
- 1/4 cup ¼ cup (30g) cocoa powder
- 1/4 cup (30g) powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
- Spread the nuts on a rimmed baking tray and roast for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and pour onto a damp tea towel (microfibre works well) and rub the skins off.
- Puree the nuts in a food processor, regularly scraping the sides, until creamy. It will take a few minutes to turn from crumbly to smooth.
- Add the beetroot and whiz until smooth.
- Add remaining ingredients and blitz again until smooth.
- Transfer to a jar and store in the fridge for up to two weeks.
soslik
how did you cook the beets for this recipe? did you boil or roast them?
Kate Hackworthy
Hi, I used boiled beets.
Fiver Feeds
Homemade nutella? Thank you for sharing this amazing recipe!
Kate Hackworthy
Homemade nutella rocks! I love it 🙂
Ailsa
Hi
I just made this – I think it’s the most delicious thing I have ever tasted in my life! I like Nutella but this is one million times better and doesn’t leave me with a funny after taste. I made 3 small jars. Do you think that it would be ok to freeze it? Thank you!
A
Kate Hackworthy
Wow – I’m so glad you like it Ailsa! I haven’t frozen it, but I’ve heard of homemade nutella being frozen so it should be okay. Ooooh- how delicious would it be frozen?! I’ll have to make some more and turn it into a rich ice cream mmmmmmm….
susanna
can i substitute with cacao powder? http://www.vitaminshoppe.com/p/navitas-naturals-organic-cacao-powder-8-oz-powder/n7-1008?sourceType=sc&source=FG&adGroup=40-60&keyword=N7-1008&cm_mmc=Google+Shopping-_-Product+Listing+Ads-_-40-60-_-N7-1008&gclid=CJ31g4C1uL0CFRFnOgodWFMAWQ&gclsrc=aw.ds#.UzcWTlzt-1A like that?
or should i add more sugar, since its in its natural form its not sweet
Christina
I am pretty sure they are the same thing; cacao is cocoa and plain cocoa powder is also not sweetened (it’s not hot chocolate drink mix in the nutella recipe)
I am going to make so much of this…
Lou
Hi Kate,
making my usual late comeback catching up old posts I missed.
Love your idea of a red beet nutalla, and will check out the cauliflower budt cake in short time, just let me grab my cup of tea 😉
I am so happy of reading about all your successes, you deserve it!
I wish you a lovely week.
Kiss
Lou
Kate Veggie Desserts
Aw, thanks so much, Lou! I hope you have a lovely week as well. x
Aunt Bee
My kids would bathe in Nutella if I let them! They would love this!
Kate Veggie Desserts
Ha ha! I hope they like it with beets!
April @ My Real Food Family
My kids love nutella but I hate that it’s promoted as a healthy snack. I’ll have to give your recipe a shot and see if they like it.
Kate Veggie Desserts
Hi April, I hope your kids like it.
Kate Veggie Desserts
Hi Donna, I’d still roast them so that they have a nice, rich, flavour. I hope you enjoy it. 🙂
Donna
Hi Kate, I’m very keen to try this recipe, if you buy ready skinned hazel nuts do you still need to roast them? Thanks Donna
nutritious deliciousness
Definitely going to try this, I love beetroot and chocolate together in cakes and we don’t eat Nutella but would love to get mine interested in beetroot, hidden or otherwise!
Kate Veggie Desserts
My son loved this! I don’t buy nutella, but this is so much better and only a few ingredients. I hope yours enjoy it. 🙂
LeanonLife
Awesome recipe. Keep sharing, I enjoyed reading
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks for commenting. I hope you get a chance to try it 🙂
Vohn McGuinness
Oh my goodness Katherine – this sounds amazing! Looking forward to giving it a go! Vohn x
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thanks, Vohn. I hope you like it. I can’t keep my spoon out of the jar!
Choclette
Congratulations on doing so well recently. I love your nutella and have bookmarked it to be made as soon as our as yet unsown beetroot are ready to harvest.
Kate Veggie Desserts
Thank you so much. As such a chocolate expert, I hope you like it! 🙂