Happy Friday!
It is a beautiful day here in North Carolina! How is the weather in your area? Fall like yet?
When Michelle was in town a few days ago we did what we love to do… make recipes in the kitchen!
I cherish those moments now when we get to have fun in the kitchen together. We also tend to make a mess and have successes and a few failures. But we love every minute of it.
Our ways of playing in the kitchen nowadays is completely different than it was a few years ago. What Michelle and I have learned over the years about food has made us change how we go about developing recipes. As you can tell, we love playing with unique ingredients and textures.
Ever since we discovered sweet potato flour we have been loving it in our recipes. We love how it taste and the moisture it provides.
Since we are always on the go and need quick filling snacks, we created two more sweet potato flour recipes that fit that criteria. In addition, we like to keep things grain free if possible, so another reason why we love sweet potato flour. Even though we love coconut flour it is nice to have an alternative for something different.
One snack muffin (what we are calling them) is based out of hemp protein, though we feel other protein powders would work. And the second snack muffin recipe is cocoa based. Who doesn’t love a good chocolate snack? Michelle and I do!
We added in some baking soda to the cocoa one since we like the way cocoa and baking soda react together. And in the hemp protein one we did not add leavening to it, as we wanted to see how much it would rise. You can see the difference in the two cakes. We love doing little experiments like this too 
yes we are weird like that
** note: we baked these snack muffins in a large muffin pan, your size will vary depending on what pan you bake these in (regular, large, or minis)
Purelytwins Recipe: Hemp Protein (sweet potato flour) Snack Muffin (grain, gluten, soy, nut free)
serves:1
Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon sweet potato flour (or any flour of choice)
- 2 tablespoons hemp protein powder (or any protein powder of choice)
- 1 whole egg
- 15-20 drops liquid stevia (or favorite sweetener about 1-3 teaspoons)
- 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place all ingredients into a bowl and stir till combined.
Grab a cupcake/muffin pan and lightly grease or use muffin liners.
Scoop batter into cupcake. Makes one large muffin, or you could scoop into 2 cups and make two smaller muffins.
Bake for about 12-15 minutes. Or till toothpick comes out clean or firm to the touch.
This snack muffin we found to be a little dense, but had a unique light, spongy like texture as well.
Now for the second snack muffin.
Purelytwins Recipe: Cocoa (sweet potato flour) Snack Muffin (grain, gluten, soy, nut free)
serves: 1
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoon sweet potato flour (or any flour of choice)
- 1 tablespoons cocoa
- 1 whole egg
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 15-20 drops liquid stevia (or favorite sweetener about 1-3 teaspoons)
- 1/2 tablespoon coconut oil
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Place all ingredients into a bowl and stir till combined.
Grab a cupcake/muffin pan and lightly grease or use muffin liners.
Scoop batter into cupcake. Makes one large muffin, or you could scoop into 2 cups and make two smaller muffins.
Bake for about 13-18 minutes. Or till toothpick comes out clean or firm to the touch.
This one we found to be a light in texture! It was delicious.
Michelle and I adore baking little snacks like these muffins. Sometimes we even call them our little ‘egg’ snack muffins.
We usually enjoy them on a daily basis of some variation or another.
You can somewhat tell the difference in the two cakes. Both were delicious. Similar yet different.
Do you like doing little experiments in the kitchen with recipes? If so, what experiment have you done recently? Have you ever experimented with your leavening agents, making recipes the same but just changing a few things to see what comes out better?
Do you like learning how people come about their recipes or do you not care, you just want the recipe?
PS: and for our vegan friends stayed tuned as we have an AMAZING mini cake coming your way!
till next time,
xoxo
Lori
i love these type of recipes! i’m always looking for a post-workout snack and the blend of protein+carbs in this seems like it’d do the trick.
do you think i could substitute sweet potato flour for a couple tbsp of actual sweet potato (roasted)?
thanks!
you could try real sweet potatoes, not sure how it would come out, but always worth a shot
I love how you guys give multiple options for your recipes, and share how they yeild different results. It’s really helpful!
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thanks Claire!
These look awesome! I need to get my hands on sweet potato flour ASAP!
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yes!
Perfect little snack to take to my yoga teacher training! Thanks, girls!
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your welcome!
I love experimenting in the kitchen. But, hate when recipes turn into fails…which happens quite a bit;) Interesting how the baking soda fluffed it up so much!
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ya we get a lot of fails too
we love experimenting like this, we feel it helps us learn more
GIRLS! These are going to be the perfect snack for me! THANK YOU!
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p.s. I love learning how recipes came to be
Meg recently posted..High Five Friday #32
Sweet potato flour! How fun. I must find and try this goodness. Y’all are always so creative
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Looks delish!
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Thank you!
yum these both look delicious!
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Mmmmm both look delicious! “SWEET” post! Think you can sub chia gel for the egg? I am so intrigued by this sweet potato flour! I adore sweet potatoes and am always looking for gluten-free baking options. They don’t have it here in France (surprise, surprise! haha I swear this is a 3rd world country
but I will try to order some online, do you know where else I can find it? Have you tried using it in savory recipes like socca or “burgers”? Would love your recipes ideas! Thanks! Loving your new site, girls, keep it up!
Hi Michelle and Lori! I stumbled upon your blog a few weeks ago when searching for green smoothies. I’m so glad I found it! I made the cocoa sweet potato flour muffins and they were great. Then tonight I tried the same recipe but subsituted steamed, mashed sweet potatoes for the flour (the exact same amount). It was even better! It rose higher in the pan and was super moist. I’m going to make these all of the time!
awesome Amy! good to know we will have to try it with mashed sweet potatoes!!
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I have TWIN 2 year old grandsons. One has very
Severe food allergies and I’m trying to bake ANYTHING
That he can eat. Ingredients are very limited. He can
Have potato flour but no eggs or dairy. Tried making
Muffins with potato flour,potato starch (not sure
If needed) , apple sauce, coconut oil. Came out lumpy!
HELP PLEASE!
Your recipes look yummy. How can we find out the nutritional information on them? Maybe I over looked it. Thanks!