Sweet Potato & Chai Muffins

   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!   

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.

   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!