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 Sweet Potato & Chai Muffins

1/12/2015

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   Muffins! Sometimes you just want a good muffin to go with your coffee, am I right? Read that like you're from Brooklyn, it sounds way better.  
    Anywho, I'm back with a paleo recipe today, a tasty, make-and-freeze kind of deal. I'm not saying you have to freeze them, just that you can, and that makes them a handy little snack you can pull out when you need it.
   Let's just get to it!   
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Sweet Potato Chai Muffins
Adapted from PaleOMG

Ingredients:

  • 1 medium sweet potato, baked (at about 400 degrees for 35-40 minutes) and pureed/squished
  • 1 overripe banana, squished :)
*You should have 1 cup-ish of puree sweet potato/banana total*
  • 3 Eggs
  • 1 Tbsp coconut oil, melted
  • 1/2 Tsp lemon juice
  • 1 Tbsp Maple syrup
  • 1/2 Tsp baking soda
  • 1/3 Cup flax meal
  • 1 Tbsp coconut flour
  • 3 Tbsp almond meal
  • 2 Chai tea bags (you will cut open the bags to use the spices inside)
  • 1/4 Tsp each ginger, all alice and cinnamon, optional
  • 3-4 Tsp maple or coconut sugar for the tops, optional


Method:

  1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees, and line a muffin tray with liners (this recipe will make about 12 muffins)
  2. In a large bowl throughly blend the sweet potato, banana, eggs, coconut oil, lemon juice and maple syrup
  3. In a separate, smaller bowl, mix together the baking soda, flax meal, coconut and almond flour, as well as the chai tea and other spices (if you're using the extra spices). Add a pinch of salt here too
  4. Now add the dry to the wet ingredients and mix until combined
  5. If you have a scoop use it to measure out the batter into each muffin cup. The biggest scoop I have is a 2 tbsp sized, and each cup holds about 2 scoops, which is about 1/4 cup. Just try to make each muffin the same size so they bake evenly, that's all this rambling is about! 
  6. Sprinkle each muffins with a bit of the maple or coconut sugar, if you're using it
  7. Bake muffins for 25-30 minutes or until you poke them with a toothpick and it comes out clean.
  8. Let the muffins cool a bit before eating 'em.
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   My favourite way to make and eat these is to freeze them after they have cooled completely, then when I want one I will warm it in the oven and eat it like it's fresh and hot out of the oven. Which it is, sort of....? 
   Either way, I find that paleo baked goods sometimes have the tendency to be wet (just a hair past moist), and warming it in the oven dries it out perfectly. Not dry as in choke it down dry, but dry as in a nice crunchy top, and a warmed inside. That's all. 
   I hope everyone had a good weekend! Mine was good, busy, interesting? I can't explain now, but perhaps I will some time! 
   Anyway, I've still got little miss middle child home today with her chicken pox, and we went for a really nice wintery walk (I pulled her in a sled so she wouldn't get worn out and feel more sick, and I got some serious exercise!). It's the kind of beautiful, mild winter day where the snow if falling silently in big, heavy flakes. So lovely, and a great start to a week!
   I hope everyone has a great Monday!
2 Comments
Damion
1/15/2015 01:28:17 am

Interesting recipe, although you may want to reconsider calling it sugar free. It definitely has (natural) sugar in it from the maple syrup and potato.

Perhaps no sugar added?

Nice blog!

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Amy-Lyn
1/15/2015 02:22:51 am

Hi!
Thanks for the comment!
I do see it could be misleading saying "sugar free"; I forget that just because something doesn't have white, refined sugar in it doesn't mean I should say "sugar free".
Thanks for the helpful tip though! :)

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