Sweet Potato Spice Muffin Recipe

Light and fluffy vegan whole-grain muffins, a healthy nutritious snack

Whole-grain sweet potato muffin recipe, a great healthy snack recipe for kids. In fact these unexpectedly light and fluffy muffins are a healthy nutritious snack food for anyone.

The natural sweetness of sweet potato means that these vegan muffins don't need much sugar.

The addition of cinnamon & ginger makes these muffins pleasingly spicy.

Gluten Free? Try our GF Sweet Potato Walnut Muffins!

Total prep & cook time: 45 min

Serving size: 1 muffin. Makes 12 muffins

Nutrition Data, 76g Serving: 232 cal, 31g carb, 11g fat, 72mg sodium, 3g fiber, 4g protein, low Cholesterol, Saturated Fat, Sodium. Good source Vit. A, Manganese. Estimated glycemic load 17

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour
• 1 cup oat flour
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp. ginger
• 1 cup mashed sweet potato

• 2/3 cup unsweetened soy milk or other non-dairy milk
• 2 tsp. cider vinegar
• 1/2 cup canola oil

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375
2. Grease a muffin pan
3. In a large mixing bowl mix together whole wheat pastry flour, oat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and ginger. Set aside
4. Mix together non-dairy milk and vinegar. Whisk in canola oil and sweet potato
5. Pour wet ingredients into dry and stir until just mixed
6. Spoon batter into muffin pan
7. Bake 20 to 25 minutes. The muffins are done when they are firm and nicely browned
8. Let muffins cool in pan for 5 minutes, then remove and eat warm or cool the rest of the way

Recipe Tips:

Make these delicious sweet potato muffins whenever you have leftover sweet potato. Or bake one just for these muffins!

Don't have any sweet potato? Substitute butternut squash or pumpkin. Make them fat free by subbing applesauce for oil.

Make gluten free muffins by subbing sorghum or millet flour for wheat flour and using certified gf oat flour. Increase the non-dairy milk to 3/4 cup and add 1/2 tsp xanthan gum to the dry ingredients.

Raisins go well with these muffins, simply add half a cup at the same time that you add the wet ingredients. Or add half a cup of chopped candied ginger when you add the wet ingredients.

To bake a sweet potato, preheat the oven to 400 degrees, wash the sweet potato, prick it several times with a fork, place the sweet potato in a small pan, and put in the oven. Bake for one hour. The sweet potato is done when juices bubble out of the holes and a fork goes into the flesh very easily.

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