Healthy Sweet Potato Chocolate Muffins
These sweet potato chocolate muffins have a delicious moist texture and rich chocolatey flavour. Healthy chocolate muffins with sweet potato are naturally sweetened with no refined sugar. They are also gluten free and dairy free.
Equipment
- 9 or 12 hole muffin tray
- paper muffin cases
Ingredients
- 250g sweet potato peeled and cut into 1.5cm cubes
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 tablespoon honey
- 2 eggs
- 50 ml milk dairy or non dairy
- 125 g oats/oat flour
- 40 g cocoa unsweetened
- 1.25 teaspoon baking powder
- 0.25 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 50 g dark chocolate finely chopped
- pinch salt
Instructions
- Place the cubed sweet potatoes in a pan. Cover with boiling water and bring up to a boil. Simmer gently with 12 minutes, or until the sweet potatoes are soft to the point of a knife. Drain well.250g sweet potato
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (160 fan). Line a muffin tin with 8 paper cases.
- Mash the sweet potatoes until smooth. Stir in the olive oil and honey. Break in the eggs and mix well. Stir in 50ml milk.3 tablespoon olive oil, 3 tablespoon honey, 2 eggs, 50 ml milk
- Add the oat flour, cocoa, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, chocolate and a pinch of salt. Mix very gently until just combined.125 g oats/oat flour, 40 g cocoa, 1.25 teaspoon baking powder, 0.25 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda, 50 g dark chocolate , pinch salt
- Spoon the mixture into the prepared muffin cases. Bake in a preheated oven for 20 minutes.
- Remove the muffins from the tin and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Notes
- For gluten free muffins, make sure you use certified gluten free oat flour.
- For dairy free muffins, use dairy free milk and check that your dark chocolate is dairy free too.
- You can make you own flour by grinding rolled or porridge oats in a food processor
- Save a few chocolate chips to sprinkle on the top of the muffins just before baking - or just add a few extra!
- Depending on the size of your tin, you might get slightly more or fewer muffins from this quantity of mixture. If you are making sweet potato chocolate muffins for kids you might want to make them smaller.
- If you are making mini muffins, cook them for 12-14 minutes.
- Healthy sweet potato chocolate chip muffins can be stored in an airtight container for 2-3 days. They are also freezer-friendly. You might want to remove the paper cases before freezing as once frozen they tend to stick.
Nutrition
Calories: 220kcalCarbohydrates: 31.4gProtein: 5.7gFat: 9.9gSaturated Fat: 2.9gFiber: 4.1gSugar: 12.3g
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