Sweet Potato Bran Muffins

Sweet Potato Bran Muffins

Adapted from Eat, Shrink, and Be Merry

Cook Time15 minutes

Passive Time20 minutes

Ingredients

• 1cup cooked mashed sweet potatoabout 1 medium potato
• 1cup buttermilk
• 1/4cup Sucanat
• 1/4cup raw honeycan use regular honey
• 3Tbsp coconut oil
• 1/2cup unsweetened applesauce
• grated zest of 1 orange
• 4cups Bran Flakes cereal
• 1 1/4cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2cup dried currants
• 1/4cup chopped walnuts
• 2tsp baking powder
• 1tsp baking soda
• 1tsp ground cinnamon
• 1/2tsp salt
• 1/4tsp each ground nutmeg and ground allspice

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375F. Spray a 12-cup muffin tin with olive oil or line with paper muffin cups.
2. In a bowl, whisk together sweet potato, buttermilk, sucanat, honey, coconut oil, applesauce, and orange zest. Add Bran Flakes and mix well.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, currants, walnuts, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, salt, nutmeg, and allspice.
4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix just until dry ingredients are moistened. Batter will be very thick.
5. Divide batter among muffin cups (there will be lots of batter, so fill them right up!)
6. Bake for 15 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center of muffin comes out clean (don't over bake, you want the muffins to be nice and moist on the inside).
7. Remove muffins from pan and let cool.

Recipe Notes

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