Purple Sweet Potato Muffins
I love purple sweet potatoes. The dark, rich color of a cooked purple sweet potato looks almost unnatural and yet it makes me love them even more. Purple sweet potatoes have a very starchy texture, more like a regular potato. They are also very sweet. I thought it might be fun to make a purple sweet potato dessert, and chose to make purple sweet potato muffins.
I took a pumpkin muffin recipe I previously used, and omitted the cinnamon. The muffins were dense and had a nice sweet potato flavor. Unfortunately the muffins lost some of their color when mixed with the muffin batter. They were slightly too sweet, so next time I'll probably cut back on the sugar.
Purple Sweet Potato Muffins
Ingredients
4 eggs
2 cups sugar (I would reduce this by half a cup next time)
2 cups mashed cooked purple sweet potatoes
1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 400º. Combine all of the dry ingredients in a
medium bowl.
2. Beat the eggs, sugar, sweet potato, and oil until smooth. To make sweet potatoes, I peeled mine and boiled them until they were soft and then mashed them in a food processor.
3. Pour
the sweet potato mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well.
4. Grease a
muffin tin or fill your tin with cupcake papers. Fill the wells with
the batter until they are 2/3 of the way full.
5. Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
Cool 5 minutes and then complete the cooling process on a wire rack.
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8gb micro sd — March 3, 2010 @ 1:13 am
I like the look of this potato muffins I am defiantly try to make this dish I was read all detail I will try it.You describe very nice recipes in this one.
Carol — March 3, 2010 @ 5:27 pm
Oo, love purple sweet potatoes and the muffins look really good! 2 cups of sugar does seem like a lot of sugar for something that is already sweet. Let us know if cutting the sugar in half does the trick.
tigerfish — March 3, 2010 @ 5:34 pm
If you did not say they were purple sweet potatoes, I thought the muffins turn moldy! ;p
caninecologne — March 3, 2010 @ 10:31 pm
omg, i love anything that is violently vivid purple!
Kirbie — March 4, 2010 @ 9:22 am
I’ll update the recipe next time I try it! I’m going to try some other recipes first though. I want something that will maintain the vivid purple.
Kirbie — March 4, 2010 @ 9:23 am
heehee. I guess they do look a bit grey. I’m going to try a steamed version next time to see if I can preserve the dark purple of the potatoes.
Kirbie — March 4, 2010 @ 9:23 am
me too! I just wish these had stayed that way after mixing it with the batter
Monika — March 4, 2010 @ 12:10 pm
beautiful color and interesting recipe
Kirbie — March 4, 2010 @ 2:57 pm
Thanks! I really hope to get a darker purple though, so I’m going to try steaming and trying some other recipes to preserve the color.