Sweet Potato Spice Muffins. Such a quick & easy recipe for moist, delicious muffins and a perfect use for leftover sweet potatoes too!

Sweet Potato Spice Muffins

We had some baked sweet potatoes last night for dinner but cooked one or two too many. The leftovers got incorporated into these very easy to prepare, moist and tender spiced muffins.

Not a bad addition to any Sunday brunch.

Sweet Potato Spice Muffins

If cooking mashed sweet potato for this recipe, I generally will bake a sweet potato in the oven. This brings out better flavour anymore of the natural sweetness.

Let the sweet potato cool to room temperature before mashing them and using them in the recipe.

Roasted sweet potatoes.

I use the exact same recipe using mashed roasted pumpkin in place of the sweet potato. They are just as delicious.

In a pinch, I’d even use canned pumpkin.

Sweet Potato Spice Muffins

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Originally published March 2008. Updated May 2019 to provide a printable recipe card and nutritional information. 

Yield: 12 muffins

Sweet Potato Spice Muffins

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 30 minutes

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Ingredients

• ¾ cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• ½ cup cooking oil
• 1 cup sweet potato, mashed or pureed
• 1 ½ cups flour
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 ½ tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp allspice
• ¼ tsp cloves
• 1 tsp ground ginger
• ½ tsp ground cardamom
• 1 cup golden raisins, optional

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, mix together the sugar, eggs cooking oil and sweet potato.
2. Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and all of the spices and fold into sweet potato mixture.
3. Finally fold in the raisins, if you are using them.
4. Spoon batter into 12 greased or paper lined muffin tins.
5. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 20-25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean.

Notes

The recipe should also make about 6 jumbo sized muffins.

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Nutrition Information

Yield

12

Serving Size

1 muffin
Amount Per Serving Calories 262Total Fat 10gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 9gCholesterol 31mgSodium 264mgCarbohydrates 40gFiber 2gSugar 22gProtein 4g

The nutritional information provided is automatically calculated by third party software and is meant as a guideline only. Exact accuracy is not guaranteed. For recipes where all ingredients may not be used entirely, such as those with coatings on meats, or with sauces or dressings for example, calorie & nutritional values per serving will likely be somewhat lower than indicated.

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