If you are looking to make a delicious treat with no refined sugars, then these Amazing Sweet Potato Healthy Brownies will make your day. A healthy baking experience you will love using delicious sweet potatoes.
Healthy Sweet Potato Brownies
For sweet potato brownies recipe you only need 4 ingredients. It’s for real! Only 4 simple ingredients! The brownies are naturally sweet, moist, and simply delicious. You cannot go wrong with this recipe. A super healthy treat to satisfy a sweet craving. Perfect for the entire family.
Sweet potatoes are loaded with vitamins including vitamins A and C, B6, B1, B2, and B3. They are also full of nutrients like manganese, copper, phosphorus, potassium, and fiber; all of which work together to keep your blood, digestion, and whole body healthy. And sweet potatoes are so delicious. So why not incorporate them in your dessert recipes and make super amazing flourless sweet potatoes healthy brownies? It is really a fantastic idea and the perfect solution for a healthier treat.
In the mood for more sweet potato recipes? Try my 2 Ingredient Sweet Potato Pancakes recipe or my how to make perfect baked sweet potato fries.
Healthy Sweet Potato Brownies Made Without Refined Sugars
I love to bake with maple syrup
. It is a natural way to sweeten your Amazing Flourless Sweet Potato Healthy Brownies too. Sweet potatoes are naturally sweet but you will need a little extra sweetness with the help of a good and natural maple syrup. Use it in moderation and you have a perfectly healthy sweetener.
Compared to refined (or “table”) cane sugar that offers absolutely no nutrients, maple syrup contains some important antioxidants and minerals like zinc and manganese. Maple syrup nutrition is impressive when it comes to supplying protective antioxidants. These are beneficial for reducing free radical damage that can cause inflammation and contribute to the formation of various chronic diseases.
It is important to buy a good quality maple syrup. I recommend this maple syrup because it is pure and tastes so delicious. We use it for baking, pancakes, waffles and even smoothies. Just wonderful!
You can bake your Amazing Flourless Sweet Potato Healthy Brownies in a loaf or cake pan or use a molds
to make mini brownies that are the perfect size for kids. I love this recipe and the fact my kids enjoy a delicious homemade healthy treat.
You can also add some cacao nibs or dark chocolate chips but it is totally up to you. Just know that many chocolate chips at the supermarket contain some refined sugars. I like semi-sweet dark chocolate chips from Whole Foods.
If you are interested in other delicious treats, please see my Dessert section. My recipes are very easy to make and I like to use fresh and healthy ingredients.
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Sweet Potato Healthy Brownies
- Prep Time: 10 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Total Time: 30 mins
- Yield: 10 brownies 1x
Description
Delicious and super easy to make healthy brownies you will absolutely enjoy. Healthy treat made with sweet potatoes.
Ingredients
- 1 cup mashed sweet potato
- ½ cup smooth nut butter of choice (either almond or cashew butter)
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup
- ¼ cup cacao powder
- *optional 1/4 cup chocolate chips or cacao nibs
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375ºF.
- On the stove, melt nut butter with maple syrup.
- In a large bowl add the mashed sweet potato, melted nut butter and maple syrup, and cocoa powder and mix well.
- If you like add some chocolate chips *optional
- Pour mixture into greased pan or mold and bake for 18-20 minutes or until cooked through.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool before taking out of the mold or pan.
- These brownies are best when cooled completely.
- You can store them in the refrigerator or at room temperature.
- Enjoy
- Category: Snack Treats
- Method: Bake
- Cuisine: American
Keywords: sweet potato, brownies, healthy treat
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erica says
hi there. the flavor of these is yummy but I somehow didn’t get mine to smooth out and bake into a brownie: they stayed in the shape I scooped them in and just got firmer. any thoughts? will def try again! thanks.
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi Erica. I think maybe baking them for a couple more minutes can do the trick. Some ovens are different. I am glad you liked the taste of the brownies 🙂
erica says
Thank you. I’ll try that. I’m loving this batch!
erica says
Just realized, my almond butter wasn’t super smooth. when I melted it it didn’t get pourable, as some do. it was somewhat of a course grind from a grinder. I’ll bet that’s the reason!
Vi says
these had great flavour but didn’t look like muffins just blobs.,,I used almond butter so maybe that was the problem as previous comment. thanks
Poorva says
These sound delicious!! Any suggestion for nut free alternative?
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Thank you. I am thinking a great nut free alternative will be to use coconut butter. Let me know if you try it and how it turns out. I would love to share a nut free alternative for this recipe 🙂
Sahirah Nash says
You could try Sunbutter
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Thank you Sahirah
Janet Carr says
Hi I would love to try your brownies but I have a nut allergy can you suggest any thing to replace the nut butter .
Thank you
Janet Carr
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi Janet, you can use coconut butter instead. Someone also suggested Sunbutter in one of the comments. Hope this helps and you can try the recipe 🙂 Thanks.
Cora says
Hi I am interested in baking these brownies question though I am from Canada and a sweet potatoe here is the light tan skin with off white and a hint of yellow flesh. A yam has the orange flesh and the skin I can’t think of the color it’s not purple it’s almost like a dark tan with the orange flesh color in it sorry I am terrible at trying to explain anyways just wanting to clarify what one I am to use. Thanks so much : )
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi Cora, there are many types of sweet potatoes. Last week I bought purple sweet potatoes! The most common type are orange inside and are pretty sweet. Outside they look just like a big potato. I don’t know if yams will work for this recipe because they have a different texture. I will try to get the ones that are Orange inside. Hope this helps.
Anne says
Hey! I tried theese today, my 3 year old loved them, me too! But just wondering if the mixture is suppose to be pourable, mine wasn’t. It was very firm. They are quite fudgy inside, should I cook them longer? Also have the same cashewbutter as someone mentioned earlier, that doesnt really melt.. i still love them, just want to see if they could be more cooked.. any thoughts?
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Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi Anne, you can leave them in the oven for 3-4 more minutes and see if that takes care of the problem 😉 glad to know you enjoyed the recipe.
Anne says
Thanks, i will try that. Something funny: the first time I was about to try this recipie, our oven broke.. so i put the shapes in the freezer and made fudge insteadl that was yummy! A versitile recipie! ???? Love your blog!
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
What a great idea! Thanks for sharing 😉
Kaleena says
Are the sweet potatoes cooked and mashed before using them in this recipe? Or are they mashed raw?
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi, yes they are cooked and mashed.
Silvana says
Hi Ursula, this was a winner with my picky 2.5 yr old. Followed the recipe but left them in the oven an additional 4 minutes. I loved them too.
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi Silvana, I’m so glad to know you enjoyed the recipe and your picky eater approved 🙂
Val says
I put the brownies at 350 for 50 minutes and they still were not committed yet. What am I doing wrong?
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Oh no! Try baking them at 375 next time. So sorry!
Caz says
Does anyone no The calorie and carb count for these little munchkins??? Thank you
Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi, I don’t know but you can check in this link: http://www.webmd.com/diet/healthtool-food-calorie-counter
Thank you.
Katherine says
Hi Ursula,
I love your Flourless Sweet Potato Brownies.
I would love to feature it in our website GreenThickies. I will not be posting the actual recipes, but I will only use one image from the post, title, a small quote and link directly back to your post.
Will that be all right?
Thanks 🙂
Katherine,
Greenthickies
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Creative And Healthy Fun Food says
Hi Katherine, Yes, that’s fine with me. Thank you so much for sharing my recipe.
H Diaz says
These turned out yummy but did not look the same. They were very moist, almost wet. Maybe it was because I used natural peanut butter but I also added a scoop of choc protein powder. I couldn’t taste the sweet potato and was amazed how sweet it was with only 3 T maple syrup.
Creative & Healthy Family says
That’s great to hear you enjoyed the recipe. I know some people have a little trouble with the texture but you need to maybe leave them in the oven for a couple more minutes. Thanks!
Melissa says
So I tried these brownies today but I only had regular butter. I cooked them the regular amount of time and they came out tasting amazing but was pretty much just a blob of chocolate goop. I would really like to get these to form into brownies. Was my issue using regular butter?
joe says
I don’t know you…. but I know this is the dumbest question ever. Regular butter?
Creative & Healthy Family says
Hi, yes. Regular butter 🙂
Creative & Healthy Family says
You can try baking for 5 more extra minutes. Some people had the same problem and needed more time in the oven. Hope this helps!
Janelle says
These are amazing!!! I substituted coconut nectar for the maple syrup and raw carob powder instead of cacao powder (I used a little less than 1/4 c because it’s a strong powder). I also added some aluminum free baking powder so it would rise. Then, I baked them for longer than it’s called for and they turned out amazing!!!
Creative & Healthy Family says
That’s great! Thank you for the reminder that I need to update the baking time 🙂 So Glad you enjoyed the recipe!
Jessica says
Hi there, I’m interested in trying this recipe for my family. I noticed that you recommend either almond or cashew butter. Any reason I should avoid peanut butter? We use the all natural kind and always have some on hand. Thank you for what looks like a delicious recipe! I can’t wait to try it!
Creative Healthy Family says
Hi, I don’t see why not. Give it a try and let me know how it goes. Thank you.
Andrea Garber says
Hi Ursula, after reading the comments I did make this exactly as you write however I am nut free so I DID substitute the almond butter for coconut butter, IT WAS DELICIOUS!! I used cacao powder and cacao nibs, so yummy! Thank you for the recipe! All The Best, Andrea
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Creative Healthy Family says
So happy you liked the recipe. Thank you for your comment!