Healthy sweet potato muffins
If you want to change your diet but don’t want to give up snacks and treats do try this recipe! These healthy sweet potato muffins are really easy to make, have little sugar and can be dairy-free and/or gluten-free if you use the appropriate substitutions. They are truly delicious and keep well in a cake tin!
Ingredients
Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C and line a muffin tin with paper cases or put some silicon muffin moulds on a baking sheet.
- Peel, dice and cook a large sweet potato until tender. Rinse, drain and mash with a fork and measure out half a cupful.
- In a large bowl, mix the dry ingredients together. In another bowl mix the eggs, oil, applesauce and buttermilk then add the sweet potato mash.
- Combine the two mixtures.
- Spoon the batter into the muffin cases or silicon forms.
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes until golden brown.
- Transfer the muffins to a wire rack to cool.