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 Free

Ingredients

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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. 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. 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. 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. 4.Preheat oven to 170 ?C.
  5. 5.Sift the flour, baking power, sugar, salt and cocoa powder into the sweet potato mash, stir gently.
  6. 6.Stir in the almond milk, vanilla extract and vegetable oil, until mixed well (this should take 3-5 mins).
  7. 7.Pour the mixture into a lined cake tin.
  8. 8.Bake for 25-30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean.
  9. 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

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