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These vegan sweet potato muffins are fluffy, moist, delicious, and only require eight ingredients (caramel sauce included). The flavors go together so well and they are ridiculously easy to make. Sweet potatoes (and a bit of coconut sugar) give the muffins a natural sweetness and a pillowy soft texture. They are then draped with an out-of-this-world sweet potato caramel glaze, which makes them more unique and delicious than any muffin you have had before. You have to try these vegan sweet potato muffins. They are out of this world!

Sweet Potato Cinnamon Muffins [Vegan, Gluten-Free]

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Serves

8-12

Cooking Time

72

Ingredients You Need for Sweet Potato Cinnamon Muffins [Vegan, Gluten-Free]

For the Sweet Potato Muffins:
  • 1 1/4 cups almond flour (for nut-free, see notes below)
  • 1/2 cup potato starch (not potato flour) (for grain-free, see notes below for substitutions)
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1/2 cup coconut sugar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons cinnamon
  • 1/2 cup cooked mashed sweet potato
  • 1 tablespoon, plus 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 cup low-fat canned coconut milk

For the Sweet Potato Caramel:

  • 1/4 cup cooked mashed sweet potato
  • 1/2 cup low-fat canned coconut milk
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 3-4 tablespoons coconut sugar, more or less to taste
  • 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

How to Prepare Sweet Potato Cinnamon Muffins [Vegan, Gluten-Free]

To Make the Muffins:
  1. First, cook your sweet potato by placing a large sweet potato (with skin on) on foil and roast for 50-60 minutes at 405°F. You want it to be overcooked basically and incredibly juicy and tender, so it mashes very well. Let it cool before preparing the muffins.
  2. Preheat your oven to 350°F and line a muffin pan with foil liners. Add the almond flour (or sunflower), potato starch, baking powder, sea salt, coconut sugar, and cinnamon to a large bowl and whisk very well, breaking up any lumps from the starch. As a tip, potato starch it tends to leave gaps in the cup when measured out, so make sure you are patting it down and leveling off with your finger.
  3. In a small bowl, peel the sweet potato and mash it very well, so no lumps remain. Measure out 1/2 cup, making sure to fill the cup and then level off with your finger, so there is not excess potato. Add the potato to a small bowl with the vanilla and coconut milk and stir really well.
  4. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until well mixed and thickens some. The batter should be similar to the consistency of cake batter, not thin, but not as thick as traditional muffin batter. However, if you are subbing with oat flour in place of the potato starch, the batter will be thicker. Just gently smooth out the tops.
  5. Divide the batter between 8-12 muffin liners, depending on how tall you want them to be. Bake for 22 minutes (unless you are baking with the oat flour, which it will be 20 minutes). The muffins are done when a toothpick comes out with a few crumbs still on it (but not like wet batter) and it lightly springs back when touched.
  6. When the muffins come out, they will still be slightly undercooked, but will finish cooking over the next 20 minutes. So, do not eat them until they have cooled at least 20 minutes. They will then be incredibly soft, light and moist. Drizzle caramel sauce on top following directions below. The muffins are best eaten within 24 hours, as the starch will cause them to start to dry out after a couple of days. They can be stored in the refrigerator.

To Make the Caramel:

  1. Add all of the sweet potato caramel ingredients (except the vanilla) to a food processor and blend until completely smooth, scraping the sides a couple of times during. Taste and add any more sweetener, if desired.
  2. Add to a small pot over a stove and turn to medium-low heat. Once it starts boiling, stir with a rubber spoon for a full couple of minutes or so until it thickens up. This should only take a few minutes. Immediately remove from heat and stir in the vanilla. Note that the caramel will thicken up much more as it cools, so don't worry if it's not as thick as you want while it's still warm. It will thicken up more in the fridge as well. Pour into a container and drizzle muffins when they are ready. This caramel sauce would also be good on ice cream, pancakes, etc...
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Notes

For the very best results, follow the recipe ingredients above for super soft, light, moist muffins. Substitutions: To make this nut-free, omit the almond flour and grind 1 cup of raw, unsalted sunflower kernels into a fine flour in your food processor for a couple of minutes, being careful not to over-process into nut butter. Measure out 1 cup after grinding and proceed with recipe. Please note that it does leave a sunflower taste to the muffins. *If you aren't concerned about being grain-free, then sub out the potato starch and use oat flour instead, but use 1 cup oat flour (instead of 1/2 cup of the starch). All the rest of the ingredients remain the same. Please note that the muffins are more dense with the oat flour, but are still moist and delicious.

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Nutritional Information

(Per Muffin) Calories: 146.2 | Fat: 6.97 g | Protein: 2.68 g | Carbs: 19.8 g | Sugar: 9.2 g (Per Tablespoon of Caramel) Calories: 39.6 | Fat: .8 g | Protein: .1 g | Carbs: 8 g | Sugar: 6.5 g

Note: The information shown is based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.


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I'm Brandi and I started my blog, The Vegan 8, in October 2013. I create all recipes to be vegan, gluten-free, oil-free and eight ingredients or less, not necessarily including salt & water. I love to share that easy, healthy and decadent recipes don't need to be more than eight ingredients! I focus on whole foods that are decadent, but so much healthier than traditional recipes.

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  1. I see only one ingredient’s list, I don’t get which ingredients are for the caramel topping and which for the muffins. I tried it anyway, they will be ready in a couple of minutes (without topping)…hopefully I didn’t mess it up!