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.

Sweet Potato Spice Muffins
Sweet Potato Spice Muffins - such a quick & easy recipe for moist, delicious muffins and a perfect use for leftover sweet potatoes too! #brunch #breakfast #snacks #easymuffinrecipes
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
- In a large bowl, mix together the sugar, eggs cooking oil and sweet potato.
- Sift together the flour, salt, baking powder and all of the spices and fold into sweet potato mixture.
- Finally fold in the raisins, if you are using them.
- Spoon batter into 12 greased or paper lined muffin tins.
- 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
12Serving Size
1 muffinAmount Per Serving Calories 262 Total Fat 10g Saturated Fat 1g Trans Fat 0g Unsaturated Fat 9g Cholesterol 31mg Sodium 264mg Carbohydrates 40g Fiber 2g Sugar 22g Protein 4g

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I love sweet potato anything. I will definitely give these a try. Thanks, CAthy
Just learned about sweet potato fly, another use for sweet potato.
Would it be possible to use a lot less sugar?