Sweet potato chocolate brownie recipe
by Alkame Smoothies
We love, love, love brownies and we love, love, love sweet potato so what better than sweet potato brownies?!
We’ve been experimenting with a few types of brownie recipes for a while, including raw brownies, but today it was all about making gooey, chocolaty brownies that contain no processed sugar, dairy, eggs or gluten. Having done a quick internet search we found a base recipe for the brownies. However, given that we are terrible at following recipes – and wanted to make the most of the things in our cupboard – we deviated slightly from the source recipe http://ourfourforks.com/sweet-potato-brownies/
Ingredients
To make our recipes you will need:
- About 2 medium sweet potatoes, cut into squares and boiled (boiling takes about 15min)
- 2 cups of dates – soaked for a couple of hours in water
- 1/4 of a cup melted coconut oil
- 1tsp vanilla bean paste
- 2 flax seed eggs (basically 1 tbsp ground flax to 2 tbsp water – mixed together and left in the fridge until it goes gloopy)
- 1/4 of a cup honey
- 1/4 of a cup coconut sugar (if you don’t have this use about 3/4 of a cup of honey)
- 1/4 cup coconut flour (you could use ground almond instead, but may need to add a bit of almond milk to make the mixture wetter as ground almond really sucks up moisture)
- decent pinch of pink Himalayan salt (or good quality sea salt)
- 1/3 cup of good quality cocoa (you could use raw cacao but as you are baking these it seems a waste to use an expensive raw product. Just pick a really dark cocoa with no sugar – we use Green & Blacks)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 cup of dried cherries
Instructions
- Put the boiled sweet potato and soaked dates in a food processor and blend well .
- Transfer the mixture to a large bowl.
- Melt the coconut oil and add the honey, cocoa and vanilla.
- Add the melted mixture to the sweet potato and date mixture and stir.
- Add the flax seed ‘egg’, salt, baking powder, coconut flour and coconut sugar to the mix and stir it all together.
- Finally stir in the dried cherries and put it all a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Put in the oven at 180 degrees celsius for 1 hour (though keep an eye on it as depending on your oven the mixture might need a bit less baking time).
- Take out of the oven, cut into square and serve. I like to sprinkle a bit of sea salt and cocoa powder mixed together on the top, but each to their own.
Alkame Smoothies 
Reblogged this on Delicious Planet and commented:
I just bought some really nice sweet potatoes from the farmer’s market. I may have to try this. My first exposure to flax seed “eggs”.
Very interesting. I just bought some really nice sweet potatoes from the farmers’ market and was wondering what to do with them. I may have to try this recipe. This is my first exposure to flax seed “eggs”.
Making this recipe was the first time we have used flax ‘eggs’ as well, but they work really well. We have made vegan brownies before without the flax eggs, and it can sometimes be really hard to get the mixture to bind. The flax eggs seem to solve the problem. We are going to experiment with using them (or chia seed ‘eggs’) in a couple of our other recipes and will post the ones that work!