a simple real food recipe :: sweet potato muffins :: allergen free options

I love it when recipes are born out of leftovers 🙂 I use sweet potatoes almost weekly in our meals – they are full of vitamins and nourishment!

A little over a year ago when I was in a baby food making season, I had some extra sweet potatoes steamed up that I didn’t have room for making baby food jars out of. I ended up playing around with one of my banana bread recipes and subbing the mashed sweet potato for the banana! This is what turned out!

It is such a simple recipe that comes together SO fast in a blender or processor, and when you batch it up, you can have easy and nourishing, pull out of the freezer breakfasts, snacks, and lunch additions.

You’ll Need:

• 1 ½ cups cooked sweet potato puree (I just steam up a cubed sweet potato and throw 2 cups of them into the processor and it makes the perfect amount pureed.)
• ½ cup soft butter or coconut oil
• 1 egg (If you are egg free use an egg replacer egg or flax egg)
• ½ cup buttermilk (OR you could fill a ½ cup with 1 TB apple cider vinegar and fill the rest of the way with whole milk or whole coconut milk)
• 1 cup millet flour
• 1 cup white rice flour
• ½ cup tapioca flour
• 1/3 cup sucanat or organic pure cane sugar (I think honey would work too)
• 1 TB cinnamon
• 2 tsp aluminum free baking powder
• ¼ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp sea salt

1. Blend the sweet potato puree, butter, egg, and buttermilk until smooth. (I puree my sweet potato in my food processor and throw everything right in there with it! If you don’t have a processor you can use a hand beaters or stand mixer too.)
2. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until smooth. (Again, I just throw everything into the processor and blend it up!)
3. Bake in silicone muffin cups, paper cups, or buttered muffin tin at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Check around the 20 minute mark in case our ovens run different.

Kitchen Tips:

• This makes 12 good sized muffins. You could make them smaller or even mini muffins and cook less time if you wish.
• Freezes up great! Double up when those sweet potatoes are on sale and batch up for the freezer. Easy pull out addition to the lunch box or breakfast!
• Pack them up in the lunchboxes instead of a sandwich for something different!

YOUR TURN!
Let me know how the babes like the muffins!