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Published: Feb 11, 2017 · by Laurel Perry · About 3 minutes to read this article. · This post may contain affiliate links

Red Velvet Hot Chocolate

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Secretly healthy red velvet hot chocolate. Naturally sweetened and dairy free!

This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make!

This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make! | CatchingSeeds.com

Are you guys catching onto the theme yet? The fact that the last four straight recipes revolve around my deep deep unending love for Chocolate? And how perfectly that coincides with a certain upcoming holiday?

Nudge, Valentines Day, nudge.

There was the Chocolate Brownie Batter Hummus that I eat on everything, the Chocolate Protein Oatmeal that was made WITHOUT protein powder, and the Breakfast Chocolate Lava Baked Oatmeal Cakes that have officially become my last meal choice.

And today I am sneaking back in to deliver just oneeeee more chocolate recipe before V-Day.

This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate is ery'thang.

Now, I enjoy a cup of hot chocolate daily. This sounds like the confessions of a crazy chocoholic, which I will not deny, but also the confessions of a crazy health nut that believes those two can coexist.

If you drank this Red Velvet Hot Chocolate every day, you might just be healthier for it.

This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make! | CatchingSeeds.com

This hot chocolate is refined sugar free and uses dates as the sweetener. With a high powered blender, they blend into the liquid without a problem, but if you are using a regular blender, you might want to opt for maple syrup or agave rather that dates. These sweeteners aren't healthy, per se, but I am not going to let that stand between me and my hot chocolate.

The star of the show: cacao powder. Cacao powder gives this Red Velvet Hot Chocolate its rich chocolate-y flavor and packs in allllll the antioxidants. Cacao can improve our mood, increase our energy, and even help us shed fat.

Pass the chocolate PLZ.

How do you naturally color red velvet hot chocolate?

The red velvet hue is thanks to beet powder. Yes, that is right, there are vegetables in your hot chocolate, but stick with me here. This Red Velvet Overnight Oatmeal recipe from last Valentine's Day was a surefire success and it was colored by none other than the humble beet. The beet powder in this Red Velvet Hot Chocolate will not add any of that characteristic "earthy" beet flavor, but it will lend a rosy red hue without reaching for chemical food dyes.

 

This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make! | CatchingSeeds.com

As Valentine's Day approaches, I wanted to take a moment to thank you for being here.

Yes YOU. In this crazy internet world that we live in, I am so grateful that we can meet together in this little corner of the web. I am grateful that you come and read my ramblings, look at my recipes, and even test a few of them out, but I am even more grateful that through this process we can become friends. And if there is one thing I want you to know this Valentine's Day, it is that you are loved.

This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make! | CatchingSeeds.com

Love love love love loved.

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This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make! | CatchingSeeds.com

Red Velvet Hot Chocolate

  • Cook Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 5 minutes
  • Yield: 2 servings 1x
  • Category: Drinks
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This Red Velvet Hot Chocolate recipe is a secretly healthy vegan treat. This recipe requires just 4 healthy ingredients and takes 5 minutes to make!


Ingredients

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  • 2 cups non-dairy milk of choice (I prefer almond or soy)
  • 4 medjool dates (pitted)
  • 1 tablespoon cacao powder
  • ½ teaspoon beet powder

Instructions

  1. Add the milk and dates into a saucepan. Heat, over medium, until it reaches a simmer. Add the warm milk with the dates and the remaining ingredients into a high speed blender. Blend until completely smooth and creamy. Serve.

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