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Mini Sweet Potato Muffins have become a fall favorite in our house. But the great thing about them, is that you can make them year round!
There’s a vendor I’ve been buying from for years at our local farmer’s market who has the most incredibly tender and almost candy-like tasting sweet potatoes. These potatoes are so good that I find myself wanting to make recipe after recipe with them. Thus, the mini sweet potato muffin was born. And I’ve never turned back!
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Sweet potatoes take a bit of time to cook and since we eat them all the time in our house, I try to bake a bunch every Sunday or Monday so we always have enough for the whole week to snack on or to serve as a last minute side dish for dinner. Sometimes I get carried away and make enough sweet potatoes for a small army, hence the inspiration for this mini muffin recipe.
All I did was take a cup of pureed sweet potato and add it to an easy-to-whip-up batter. Not only did my kids love the bright orange color of these muffins, but they were also a major hit with a bunch of Chloe’s little friends (aka my wee-testers). This recipe is also a fun one to get the little ones involved in making too!
A lot more flavorful and healthy than anything you could buy at the supermarket, these sweet treats are something you can keep on hand for breakfast, lunch or any time of day.
Mini Sweet Potato Muffins
Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1 cup old fashioned oats
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher or sea salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 large eggs, whisked
- 1 cup sweet potato puree
- 1/2 cup milk (any type works)
- 1/4 cup canola or vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 F.
- Place the first 7 ingredients in a bowl and whisk to combine.
- In a separate bowl whisk the remaining ingredients.
- Slowly combine the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients just until they are combined (be careful not to over mix the batter).
- Place 1 tablespoon of batter in each cup of greased mini muffin tins and bake for 15 minutes.
Notes
- * To make sweet potato puree, bake sweet potatoes (or yams) in a 400 degree oven for one hour, allow to cool, slice in half lengthwise and mash flesh with a fork until smooth
- ** You can place muffins in labeled freezer bags and freeze for up to 3 months.
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Thank you for mentioning the coconut milk and oil work! My daughter has a dairy allergy, so we substitute coconut milk/oil/spread for everything. 🙂
Thank you for another great recipe. I used coconut milk, coconut oil, and spelt flour. They are so yummy. I could not resist to have a few out of the oven with a cup of coffee for mid day snack. Packing these for our picnic at the park for my 2 and 3 yr old. My oldest does not eat any veggies so hopefully these will work.
Loved the recipe — so delicious and nutritious. I didn’t have any brown sugar, so I substituted 1/3 cup of agava nectar. They turned out perfectly!
My 2 1/2 yr old helped to make them and he sprinkled 1 blueberry on top of each muffin — very pretty!
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My 2 1/2 year old LOVES these, she has helped me make them twice now! I love getting her involved in the kitchen, she is much more open to trying new foods if she has a hand in the preparation!
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love these recipes!!
Biscuits: http://b12.ba4.myftpupload.com/2010/11/22/sweet-potato-biscuits-2/
Cakes: http://b12.ba4.myftpupload.com/2011/11/14/sweet-potato-cakes/
Pudding: http://b12.ba4.myftpupload.com/2008/11/10/sweet-potato-pudding/
In Orange Cups: http://b12.ba4.myftpupload.com/2008/11/19/sweet-potatoes-in-orange-cups/
Hope you’ll like one of these!
We have a ton of pureed sweet potatoes left after my son stopped eating pureed baby food that I found in the freezer–none of us love straight sweet potatoes, so I’m wondering if you can share some recipes that I might use the leftovers in? I love the idea of these muffins!
W.O.W. Amazing! I will be making regular sized from now…. the mini’s are too easy to pop in my mouth! (I almost ate the entire batch)
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There’s are super yummy! My husband loves them, now the real test is when my son wakes up in the morning and eats them for breakfast, lol
Can you make these using Gerber baby oatmeal cereal? I have a lot left over that my son no longer eats.
I’ m from Puerto Rico. Can i just not use the oats? what is their purpose? Can i use evaporated milk? Or what kind of milk should i use? Sorry bout my baking ignorance, im new at baking. 🙂