Homemade Vegan Beetroot Cupcakes

These beetroot cupcakes (Rainbow Nourishments) are so simple to make, and pretty too! Beetroot is one of nature’s sweetest vegetables, so great to use as an ingredient in puddings, cakes and bakes.

Beetroot can turn your pee pink  temporarily, so unless there’s a medical reason behind it, don’t worry about it! Keep away from pets due to cocoa powder. Before cooking, read up on food safety for people and pets. 

Read our post on zero waste baking tools, to learn about silicone baking sheets and cupcake liners.

Beetroot alone won’t make these cupcakes their pretty pink colour, you’ll have to use beetroot powder to do this. Avoid using most red or pink food dyes, as most are either from carmine/cochineal (red beetles) or nasty chemicals.

The frosting is made from a blend of vegan cream cheese, vegan butter (Flora has no palm oil) and icing sugar (Suma is egg-free) and a little vanilla (use real, as fake vanilla is vile and sometimes is made from castoreum (beaver extract).

If you’ve never come across the flavour combination of beetroot and chocolate, you’re missing out! In the USA, it’s a very common flavour named ‘red velvet’, named originally in the Deep South as ‘red devil’ as a contrast to the lighter angel cake! Then as the cake density grew softer, it transitioned from ‘devil to velvet!’