Name: Low Fat Sweet Potato Muffins
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Ingredients: 1.5 cups white flour; .5 cups sweet potato powder; 1 tablespoon baking powder; .5 teaspoon salt; 2 tablespoons sugar; .5 teaspoon cinnamon; .5 teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1 cup milk; .25 cup unsweetened applesauce

These home-baked sweet potato muffins are a healthy snack. If you’re looking for a tasty, low-fat alternative to store-bought muffins, this is it.

Home baked sweet potato muffins are a healthy snack. If you're looking for a tasty, low-fat alternative to store bought muffins, this is it | Rockin W Homestead

Due to health issues this past year, my family has been on a quest to reduce the amount of fat in our diet. The thing is store-bought low-fat food pretty much tastes like cardboard.

Since we still want to have the great taste of the food we love, we’ve become creative about replacing fat and retaining flavor and texture. This recipe does it by substituting applesauce for butter. It’s a simple swap that cuts out fat and keeps your baked goods moist. Applesauce can be substituted one for one with butter in any baked recipe.

Give it a try.

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Low-Fat Sweet Potato Muffins

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cups white flour
1/2 cup sweet potato flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
1/4 cup melted butter or substitute unsweetened applesauce

Directions:

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Spray muffin pans with non-stick spray.
2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sweet potato flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar with a wire whisk until thoroughly incorporated.
3. Add the egg, milk, and butter (or applesauce) to the dry ingredients, stirring only enough to dampen the flour; the batter should be lumpy.
4. Spoon into the muffin pans, filling each cup about two-thirds full.

Bake: 15 to 20 minutes each
Yield: 12 regular size muffins

Substitutions:

Replace ½ cup of sweet potato powder with ½ cup of fresh mashed sweet potatoes. Add the fresh potatoes to the wet ingredients.
If you’ll replace the butter with applesauce it makes this recipe practically fat free.
Running short on fresh milk? Use 3 tablespoons of instant milk powder and 1 cup of water. Add the powder to the dried ingredients and the water with the wet.

Low Fat Sweet Potato Muffins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword muffin, sweet potato

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 12

Calories 36 kcal

Author Shelle

Ingredients

1.5 cups white flour
.5 cups sweet potato powder
1 tablespoon baking powder
.5 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
.5 teaspoon cinnamon
.5 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 cup milk
.25 cup unsweetened applesauce

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F. Spray muffin pans with non-stick spray.
2. In a large bowl, mix the flour, sweet potato flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar with a wire whisk until thoroughly incorporated
3. Add the egg, milk, and butter (or applesauce) to the dry ingredients, stirring only enough to dampen the flour; the batter should be lumpy.
4. Spoon into the muffin pans, filling each cup about two-thirds full.