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Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins

Posted on March 5, 2018 1 Comment

Not everyone in my house likes sweet potato mash with their dinner. But everyone loves the cinnamon spice sweet potato muffins I make with the left over mash!

Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins

It might sound strange, but muffins are a great way to use up leftover veggies. Zucchini and carrot are muffin favourites, but good old sweet potato is also a winner in muffins.

It’s worth cooking the sweet potato just to make these muffins because it makes them so good! The sweet potato makes them moist, and sweet, and gives them such a delicious colour. Plus it doesn’t hurt to know that you’re eating a super health veggie when you are pigging out on warm muffins!

Even my kids who say they don’t like sweet potato, love these muffins!

Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins

We make our muffins with homemade muffin mix, but you can easily adapt your favourite muffin recipe to make these from scratch too. You’ll probably want to reduce the amount of liquid you add, as the mashed sweet potato adds a lot of moisture, but apart from that you can add sweet potato to lots of cake and muffin recipes.

We brushed some melted butter onto our sweet potato muffins and then dipped them into some cinnamon sugar, but they’d be great with cream cheese icing (frosting) or just keep them plain.

Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins using Homemade Muffin Mix.

You can find the recipe for our homemade muffin mix here.

Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins (Muffin Mix)
Author: picklebums.com
Prep time: 10 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 40 mins
Serves: 12 large muffins
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup oil or melted butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 1/2 cups mashed sweet potato (approx 1 large potato)
  • 2½ cups of homemade muffin mix
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • 1 tsp allspice
  • 1/2 cup of milk
Instructions
  1. Peel and cut a large sweet potato into cubes, cook it in the microwave, or steam, it until soft enough to mash. Allow the sweet potato mash to cool before adding it to the other ingredients.
  2. Preheat your oven to 180 Celcius and line a muffin tin with paper cases.
  3. In a large bowl combine the eggs and oil and beat well.
  4. Add the cooled mashed sweet potato and mix well.
  5. Add the muffin mix, and cinnamon, ginger and allspice and mix gently/
  6. Mix in the milk.
  7. Fill the muffin cases almost to the top and bake in a moderate oven for 25-30 minutes until they begin to brown on top and a skewer comes out clean.
  8. For a cinnamon sugar topping – brush the top of the muffins with melted sugar and dip into a dish of cinnamon sugar.
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Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins from scratch.

Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins (from scratch)
Author: picklebums.com
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 30 mins
Total time: 45 mins
Serves: 12 large muffins
Ingredients
  • ¾ cup of sugar
  • ¼ cup of oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1½ cups mashed sweet potato (approx 1 large potato)
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 2.5 tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ginger
  • 1 tsp allspice
  • 1/2 cup of milk
Instructions
  1. Peel and cut a large sweet potato into cubes, cook it in the microwave, or steam, it until soft enough to mash. Allow the sweet potato mash to cool before adding it to the other ingredients.
  2. Preheat your oven to 180 Celcius and line a muffin tin with paper cases.
  3. In a large bowl combine the eggs, sugar, and oil, and beat well.
  4. Add the cooled mashed sweet potato and mix well.
  5. Add the flour, baking soda, and cinnamon, ginger and allspice and mix gently.
  6. Add the milk a little at a time mixing well.
  7. Fill the muffin cases almost to the top and bake in a moderate oven for 25-30 minutes until they begin to brown on top and a skewer comes out clean.
  8. For a cinnamon sugar topping – brush the top of the muffins with melted sugar and dip into a dish of cinnamon sugar.
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Please note: this recipe uses Australian measurements and temperatures, if you need to convert measurements or temperatures you can find our printable cooking conversion chart here.

Cinnamon Spice Sweet Potato Muffins

These sweet potato muffins are a good after school snack to munch on while tackling some homework, and they are great in the lunch box too. They also freeze well!

Have you got a favourite muffin recipe?

Leave a link to your favourite muffin recipe in the comments below, or try one of our favourites:

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  1. Sapana V says

    These sweet potato muffins are looking delicious. My kids will love them.

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