Sunday Funday with some grain-free and sugar-free cupcakes from Liz of Sprouted Routes!
Liz is a food editor, blogger, cookbook author (Glow Pops!) and all around health all-star, and I’m pumped for you to meet her.
Liz and I have the same publisher AND editor and met through some cookbook events throughout the years. She’s one of the realest, tells-you-how-it-is kinda gals out there, and she has a great perspective on health: she’s curious!
She does a lot in the wellness space, and it’s no wonder she’s come up with some seriously healthy cupcakes for you all to enjoy, topped with some spiralized beets.
From Liz:
My name’s Liz, and I do about 8 million things, with one common thread: healthy food.
By day, I’m the food editor at mindbodygreen, an awesome wellness website with tons of info on how to eat to get rid of anxiety and inflammation, the best yoga poses for desk-workers, how to actually start meditating and more. By night, I’m writing cookbooks (my first one, a healthy popsicle book, came out over the summer, and I’m hard at work on my next manuscript now!) and working on my blog baby, Sprouted Routes (or sharing all of my weird health habits and strange things I’m experimenting with on Instagram).
Sprouted Routes is a healthy recipe haven (want a gut-healing soup? I got it! Need some turmeric-spiked muffins? Got those too!), but, because I’m actually quite an unhealthy eater deep in the buried parts of my soul, it often ends up showcasing my desire to take the desserts I so crave and make them healthy.
Sprouted Routes is where I create cookie dough I can feel good about eating by the spoonful, or grain-free, sugar-free Snickers Pie (yeah…this is the kind of food I crave). So come hang out! We can gossip about how ridiculously adorable and absurdly healthy Ali’s baby is 🙂
These cupcakes have a secret ingredient, and it’s super good for your body: beets. During World War 2, when bakers had to ration certain ingredients, they’d often use beets to add a rich color to their cakes and voila—red velvet was born. Since then, the sweet treat has strayed far from its roots, with most bakers simply squeezing in a few drops of red food dye to their chocolate batter.
But why do that when you can employ the earthy sweetness of beets—and benefit from the mega-dose of fiber and anti-inflammatory elements they add? They also help keep the cupcake super moist. If you’re a beet-hater, don’t fear—just chop the beets super fine after spiralizing, and you’ll never know they’re there!
Connect with Liz:
- Her blog, Sprouted Routes
- Her book, Glow Pops
Note: Hi, it’s Ali! I’m currently taking time off the blog for a maternity leave. During this time, I will be featuring some of the bloggers who have inspired me – they’ve provided spiralized recipes for all of you to enjoy during my absence. I’m honored to introduce them to you if you don’t know them already – and I hope you enjoy this new series!
If you have any questions regarding this recipe or anything Inspiralized related, you can feel free to leave a comment and Meaghan, our Director of Community & Brand will get back to you! You can also reach her via e-mail – she will escalate anything urgent to me, but as I said, I will be preparing for my little one’s arrival and then, of course, enjoying time with him and my husband. You can follow me on Instagram for personal updates – on @inspiralizedali and @inspiralized. Thank you for your understanding and patience as I begin this exciting new chapter of my life!
Red Velvet Cupcakes With Spiralized Beets
Ingredients
- Cupcake Ingredients:
- 2 small beets ends and especially dirty bits removed, spiralized on Blade D
- 2 cups almond flour
- ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ cup cooled melted coconut oil or avocado oil
- ¼ cup maple syrup
- 3 room temperature eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Frosting Ingredients:
- 1 cup raw cashews soaked for 4-5 hours, then drained well
- 3 tablespoons honey or maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Pull out any especially pretty spiralized beets and save for garnish at end. Give the rest of them a quick chop so none are long and stringy.
- In a bowl, mix together almond flour, cocoa powder, sea salt, and baking soda until homogenous. Add oil, maple syrup, eggs, and vanilla, and mix well to combine. Stir in beets and mix until evenly distributed.
- Pour into lined, full sized cupcake tin, filling each one a bit over ¾ of the way. Bake for 20 - 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Let cool completely before frosting.
- To make frosting, blend together all ingredients until very creamy—you want to let the blender or food processor go longer than you’d think, scraping down the sides, to let the nuts release their oils and get a truly creamy result. Spread frosting on cupcakes and garnish with a beet spiral. Store in the refrigerator until ready to eat.
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