Sweet Potato Brownies
- Prep: 15 Mins / Cook: 30 Mins
- Serves 6
- easy
Fancy a gorgeous dessert that's vegan and gluten free? Try our fingerlicking sweet potato brownies with cocoa and peanut butter! Low in fat and sugar, they're a scrumptious yet healthy after dinner treat.
Gluten Free Dairy FreeIngredients
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- Sweet Potato Sweet Potato 1 1
- Peanut Butter Peanut Butter 4 tbsp 4 tbsp
- All Purpose Flour Plain Flour 50g 6 tbsp
- Caster Sugar Caster Sugar 100g 1/2 cup
- Cocoa Powder Cocoa Powder 4 tbsp 4 tbsp
- Baking Powder Baking Powder 1.5 tsp 1.5 tsp
- Table Salt Table Salt 1/4 tsp 1/4 tsp
- Unsweetened Almond Milk Unsweetened Almond Milk 150ml 3/5 cup
- Vegetable Oil Vegetable Oil 70ml 5 tbsp
- Vanilla Extract Vanilla Extract 1 tsp 1 tsp
Instructions
- 1.Peel and quarter the sweet potatoes, place them in a pot and cover with at least 3cm of boiling water, add 1/2 teaspoon of salt and cook at medium heat until soft (around 15 minutes).
- 2.Remove the cooked sweet potatoes from the pot and place them in a large mixing bowl. Mash with a fork or potato masher.
- 3.Add peanut butter into the sweet potato mash while it is still warm (so peanut butter will melt with the heat), mix well and set aside.
- 4.Preheat oven to 170 ?C.
- 5.Sift the flour, baking power, sugar, salt and cocoa powder into the sweet potato mash, stir gently.
- 6.Stir in the almond milk, vanilla extract and vegetable oil, until mixed well (this should take 3-5 mins).
- 7.Pour the mixture into a lined cake tin.
- 8.Bake for 25-30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
- 9.Cool for at least 15 minutes before cutting into squares.
Nutritional Information
- Calories:
115 - Fat:
7g - Sodium:
734mg - Carbs:
14g - Sugar:
7g - Protein:
2g