Name: Red velvet bites
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: Makes 20
Ingredients: 2 tbsp/30 ml cacao powder, plus extra for dusting; 1 tbsp/15 ml coconut oil; 4 tbsp/60 ml unsweetened almond milk; 75 g/3 oz/1 small trimmed beetroot (beet), peeled and coarsely grated; 2 tbsp/30 ml smooth cashew nut butter; 110 g/4 oz/1 cup porridge (rolled) oats; 110 g/4 oz/5 Medjool dates, stoned (pitted); 50 g/2 oz/½ cup unsweetened desiccated (dry shredded) coconut; 2 tbsp/30 ml hulled hemp seeds

Preparation info

Makes
20

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
15 min

Appears in

Energy Balls & Power Bites

By Sara Lewis

Published 2017

About

Forget about baking, these mini naturally-sweet snacks have all the flavour of red velvet cake but can be made in just a few minutes.

Ingredients

110 g/4 oz/5 Medjool dates, stoned (pitted)
110 g/

Method

Add the dates, oats, hemp seeds and desiccated coconut to a food processor and blitz until finely chopped.
Add the grated beetroot, cacao powder, cashew nut butter and coconut oil then spoon in the almond milk and blitz together until smooth and beginning to clump together.
Squeeze into a ball, remove from the food processor and cut into 20 pieces. Ro