Beet Crust Dessert Pizza

ByShashi CharlesUpdated on April 2, 2024

This beautiful, ruby-hued dessert pizza is made with a gluten-free beet crust that is topped with whipped coconut cream, chocolate chunks, peanut butter chips, and drizzled with melted chocolate and melted peanut butter.

This Beet Crust Dessert Pizza is simply decadent!

I used almost the same recipe I used to make the crust for this beet pizza and topped it with all the forms of peanut butter and chocolate I had on hand.

What are the ingredients to make this Beet Crust Dessert Pizza?

For the Beet Crust Dessert Pizza you will need the following 9 ingredients for the crust:

Beets
Almond meal
Gluten-free flour
Salt
Baking powder
Olive oil
Egg
Vanilla
Granulated sugar

And these three ingredients for toppings:

Chocolate chips
Peanut butter chips
Coconut whipped cream or some sort of whipped topping

On Valentine’s Day, heart-shaped candies, chocolates, and red roses will start flying off store shelves.

And, the day after, I will be scouring those shelves for discounted sales on the leftovers! Yup, sales fascinate me – almost as much as some of the theories behind Valentine’s Day itself.

Musings on Valentine’s Day…

One of the theories I have come across suggests that it was the actions of a Roman priest, named St. Valentine, that lead to any significance being associated with February 14.

As this theory goes… there was a Roman emperor called Claudias who, figuring that unmarried soldiers fought better than married soldiers, prohibited the marriage of young people!

Along came St. Valentine, who was an advocate of marriage and who, (inspite of the prohibition by Cladias), began secretly marrying those people wishing to do so.

St. Valentine was eventually caught and imprisoned. And, while he was imprisoned and awaiting his sentence, he started having a visitor. A young lady. Who, turned out to be the daughter of “Asterius”, who was one of the men who was to judge him.

The theory goes on to say that, St. Valentine prayed with and healed the young lady of her blindness which led to Asterius himself reinstating his loyalty to Christianity. However, it doesn’t end there – this particular theory further goes on to say that St. Valentine was sentenced to torture and ultimately death – and, the last note St. Valentine sent to Asterius’ daughter was signed with these three words “from your Valentine”.

Now there are other theories and stories – but, this is one of my favorites.

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When my daughter was in elementary school, it was customary to have little Valentine’s Day cards for every one of her classmates.

Even though each child took turns going around and placing a Valentine’s Day card/chocolate in other’s “mailboxes” while in plain sight of each other, my daughter never wanted to sign her name on the cards she gave out, instead she would simply scribble “from your Valentine” on the back!

While I wait for those discounted candies to go on sale, my daughter and I will be chowing on some Beet Crust Dessert Pizza!

A few notes about this beet crust dessert pizza

This beet pizza base isn’t too different from my past beet pizzas – but it does have one teaspoon of sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla in it.

I baked the base first and let it come to room temperature.

Then I topped it with whipped coconut cream, chocolate chunks, peanut butter chips, and melted chocolate and melted peanut butter.

This dessert beet pizza is quite popular at our home.

Variations

We have enjoyed this beet crust dessert pizza topped with whipped cream instead of whipped coconut.

One time, my daughter even insisted we top it with frozen yogurt and homemade hard-shell -and seeing she had a healthy dose of veggies in her dessert, I couldn’t argue!

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Today, I am guest posting for a fellow Atlanta blogger – Lindsey over at American Heritage Cooking as she perfects her already ah-mazing baking and decorating skills at the International Culinary School in NYC!