Sweet Potato Oat Flour Muffins with Chai Spices

These healthy and wholesome sweet potato oat flour muffins have notes of vanilla and chai, and they’re studded with plenty of chocolate chips. They’re easy to make and perfect for breakfast and snacks.

I’m a big fan of homemade muffins, quick breads, and oat bars for quick and easy breakfasts and snacks. I love pairing one of these sweet potato oat flour muffins with a big bowl of yogurt and fruit for breakfast or enjoying one with a glass of milk for a snack before bed. I’m still nursing my toddler and find it so helpful to have a wholesome bedtime snack since my little one still loves his mama milk and my hunger levels are still quite high!

If wholesome oat flour muffins are your thing, check out these Pumpkin Gingerbread Oat Flour Muffins and these Chunky Monkey Muffins.

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• Why You’ll Love These Muffins
• Ingredients
• Instructions
• Substitutions and Variations
• Equipment:
• How To Store
• Top Tip
• More Sweet Potato Recipes
• Sweet Potato Oat Flour Muffins

Why You’ll Love These Muffins

• Quick and easy: These muffins come together in just over 30 minutes from start to finish.
• Moist: Sweet potato, eggs, and butter make these muffins super moist!
• Flavourful: The combination of warm chai spices, maple syrup, vanilla, and chocolate chips is irresistible and so cozy for fall.
• Healthy: Made with wholesome oat flour, beta carotene-rich sweet potato, and sweetened entirely with maple syrup, these muffins are super healthy.

Ingredients

Let’s take a look at the ingredients in these muffins! You can find exact quantities in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

• Eggs: Eggs play a role in binding and making the muffins light and fluffy.
• Butter: Melted butter adds moisture and richness.
• Sweet potato: I baked a whole sweet potato, scooped out the flesh, and mashed it until smooth. You can also steam a peeled and diced sweet potato and mash it or puree it in the food processor. If you’re in a pinch, you can use canned sweet potato puree.
• Maple Syrup: Maple syrup is used to sweeten these muffins. You can use honey, but I would reduce the amount to ½ cup, since honey is actually a bit sweeter than maple syrup.
• Milk: Milk is used to add moisture to the muffins.
• Vanilla extract: Vanilla extract enhances and deepens the overall flavours.
• Oat flour: Instead of wheat flour, these muffins are made with oat flour. Store-bought oat flour is recommended here, as homemade oat flour is more coarse and will result in a tougher, gummier muffin. Store-bought oat flour is very fine and smooth, which helps make these muffins light and fluffy. In a pinch, you can use homemade oat flour, but just keep in mind that muffins will be more dense. To make oat flour, simply blend 2 cups of rolled oats in a food processor until a flour forms.
• Baking soda and baking powder: I find that using both baking soda and baking powder in baked goods containing oat flour yields better (fluffier, higher rising) results than only using baking powder or baking soda.
• Sea salt: Sea salt plays an important role in enhancing the sweetness of the maple syrup and balancing the flavours.
• Chai spices: Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves.
• Raisins or chocolate chips: I am partial to chocolate chips in these muffins, but feel free to use raisins or omit entirely.
• Cinnamon sugar: Totally optional, but I love to add a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar to the tops of the muffins before baking for an extra little something something.

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F and lightly grease a standard 12-muffin pan with butter, or line with paper liners.
2. In a large bowl, beat the eggs. Whisk in the melted butter, sweet potato, maple syrup, milk, and vanilla.
3. In a medium bowl, stir together the oat flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cardamom, and cloves. 
4. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and whisk until just combined. Fold in the raisins or chocolate chips. 
5. Fill each muffin cup with batter and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar. Press in a few more chocolate chips, if desired. 
6. Bake for 22-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. 
7. Let cool in the pan for a few minutes, then remove and enjoy one warm, with a touch of honey butter or nut butter, if desired… and perhaps a glass of goat milk or a cup of chai tea! 

Substitutions and Variations

• Sweet Potato: Feel free to use an equal amount of pumpkin puree.
• Oat Flour: I have not tried any other kinds of flour, but you may be able to use spelt flour or whole wheat flour in place of the oat flour. Let me know if you do in the comments!
• Spices: If you don’t want to use all of the spices, feel free to only use the cinnamon.
• Add nuts: Swap out the chocolate chips or raisins for ½ cup of chopped walnuts or pecans.
• Vegan: I have not tested a vegan version, but you might be able to use 2 flax eggs (2 tablespoons of ground flax mixed with 6 tablespoons of water) and coconut oil instead of butter for a vegan version of these muffins.
• Maple syrup: You can use honey instead of maple syrup, but reduce the amount to ½ cup since honey is actually sweeter than maple syrup.

Equipment:

• Mixing bowls
• Whisk
• Measuring cups and measuring spoons
• Muffin pan
• Paper muffin liners (optional)

How To Store

Store these muffins in an airtight container at room temperature for four days, in the refrigerator for a week, or in the freezer for up to three months.

Top Tip

• Avoid over–mixing! Baked goods made with oat flour can become overly dense and gummy when the batter is over-mixed.

More Sweet Potato Recipes

• Sweet Potato Peanut Soup with Chickpeas
• Egg and Sweet Potato Breakfast Burritos
• Sweet Potato Blended Baked Oats
• Sweet Potato Pizza Crust

Also check out this post with 33 of my best Sweet Potato Recipes!

If you make these Sweet Potato Oat Flour Muffins, it would make me so happy if you’d leave a comment and/or rating below. I love hearing your feedback! And don’t forget to snap a pic and tag me on Instagram @upbeet.kitchen so I can see your versions! It makes me so happy to see these recipes come to life in your kitchens!

Enjoy!! 

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