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Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins

Sep 17, 2021 · 15 Comments

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Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins are perfect for breakfast or as an afternoon snack. The delicious muffins are super moist, healthy, and so easy to make.

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It’s the first day of #FallFlavors week – a week where more than 25 food bloggers are going to wow you with recipes using all the fall foods with the help of some awesome sponsors.  Sponsors that generously provided us with products to use in our creations.

We’re sharing them with the hashtag #FallFlavors on social media and you’ll find some of the links in this post as well. In addition to the recipes, we also have a great giveaway for you this week thanks to our amazing sponsors! All of those details and how to enter are listed below!

Cinnamon Sweet Potato Muffins on white platter

My last recipe for this week long event is this vegetable packed sweet tasting muffin. You won’t even believe that there are vegetables in these muffins. There are not one, but TWO fall favorite veggies in this recipe. I didn’t start out using two vegetables, but in creating the recipe that’s where I went.

Making a healthier muffin for my family to have for breakfasts or snacking was the end goal, like these other muffin recipes: healthy Banana Chocolate Chunk Muffins or these Jam-Filled Corn Flake Muffins.

Before I tell you about the classic fall soup recipe, the giveaway, and our generous sponsors, let me tell you what I’ll be sharing this week.

  • Monday: Slow Cooker Apple Pear Crisp
  • Wednesday: Autumn Squash Soup
  • Friday: Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins ((that’s this recipe)
white platter with Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins

What’s in these sweet potato pumpkin muffins?

When I received sample products from Melissa’s Produce to aid in creating recipes for this week, I knew I wanted to use the sweet potatoes for a baked item. Muffins, to be exact. I thought the bright orange color of the vegetable would be a perfect fall food recipe.

Little did I know that the Garnet Sweet Potatoes I had were WHITE inside! Well, that really threw me for a minute until I realized I had some leftover pumpkin puree in the freezer that would give me that same bright orange color. So, you’ve got sweet potatoes, pumpkin, oats, nuts, chia and flax seeds among the other usual ingredients in a basic muffin.

If you’re making these muffins with an orange sweet potato, you can replace the amount of pumpkin with sweet potato or keep it the same as indicated in the recipe and use pumpkin, too.

garnet sweet potatoes from Melissa's Produce

I’m also using brown sugar from Dixie Crystals and pecans from  Millican Pecan Company, and vanilla bean paste from Taylor and Colledge. I crushed up some of the Melissa’s Produce Cinnamon Spice Clean Snax crumbles to use in the streusel topping.

Melissa's Produce Cinnamon Spice Clean Snax crumbles

Ingredients for Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins

  • 12 cup muffin pan
  • muffin/cookie scoop
  • paper liners
  • mashed sweet potato
  • pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
  • dark brown sugar
  • coconut oil
  • low-fat milk
  • eggs
  • vanilla bean paste
  • flour
  • old-fashioned oats (not quick oats)
  • pumpkin pie spice
  • cinnamon
  • baking powder
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/4 cup chopped pecans
  • 1/4 cup cinnamon snack mix, crumbled
Kids will love these muffins and you’ll smile knowing there’s healthy ingredients in them.
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How to Make Sweet Potato Muffins

Step 1

Preparing the Sweet Potato

There are a few ways you can cook sweet potatoes for this recipe. You can bake them, allow the potatoes to cool and scoop out the flesh. Another way is to peel the sweet potatoes, cut into inch cubes, and boil them in water until they are tender.

Roasting sweet potatoes is an excellent way to cook them too. Place peeled and cubed sweet potatoes on baking sheet, drizzle with a little olive oil and roast at 450 degrees for 30 minutes or until tender.

Once your sweet potatoes are cooked, mash them with a fork and allow to cool to room temp before using in the recipe.

Using leftover sweet potatoes is also a great idea for this recipe.

boiling sweet potatoes

Step 2

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 12 cup muffin pan (I love this one) with paper muffin liners and lightly spray with nonstick spray.

Step 3

In a medium bowl, combine the dry ingredients: flour. oats, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

Step 4

Using a large mixing bowl and a hand mixer, combine your wet ingredients: mashed sweet potato, pumpkin puree, 1/2 cup brown sugar, coconut oil, milk, eggs, and vanilla bean paste. Add in the flour mixture and mix until combined.


Step 5

Place batter into muffin cups using a muffin scoop (it’s great for cookies too), or spoon batter into muffin liners. Set aside while making the streusel topping.

Step 6

In a small bowl, combine

In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients for topping: cinnamon, dark brown sugar, crumbled cinnamon snack mix, and pecans. Top each muffin with a generous sprinkle of the topping mixture.

Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins batter with topping in muffin cups ready to bake

Step 7

Bake muffins for 22 to 25 minutes, or until the toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool a few minutes before eating.

Muffins can be frozen in an airtight container – allow to cool completely before freezing. To reheat, simply thaw and eat; or microwave a few seconds.

close up of Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffin on white tray
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Tips, Tricks, and FAQs

  • You can use all sweet potatoes in this recipe, or even all pumpkin.
  • Baking, boiling, or roasting the sweet potatoes are the preferred methods.
  • If you have an Instant Pot, you can cook your sweet potatoes in that. This link is great!
  • Leftover sweet potatoes are also great to use for the muffins.
  • Be sure your cooked and mashed sweet potatoes are cooled before adding to the batter.
  • Can you freeze the muffins? Yes, cool muffins and then store in an airtight container in the freezer.
  • How do you reheat frozen muffins? Allow to thaw and then eat or place in microwave and heat a few seconds.
close up of Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffin on white tray

Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins

Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins are perfect for breakfast or as an afternoon snack. The delicious muffins are super moist, healthy, and so easy to make.
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Keyword: baking, muffins,, pumpkin, snacks, sweet potato, sweet potato muffins
Servings: 12 muffins

Equipment

  • 12 cup muffin pan
  • muffin scoop
  • paper liners

Ingredients

For the Muffin Batter

  • 1 cup old fashioned oats (not quick oats)
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • pinch salt
  • 3/4 cup mashed, cooked sweet potato
  • 1/4 cup pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
  • 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted and cooled slightly
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla bean paste
  • 1/2 cup low-fat milk

For the Streusel Topping

  • 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 cup cinnamon snack mix, crumbled
  • 1/4 cup chopped pecans

Instructions

Preparing the sweet potatoes

  • There are a few ways you can cook sweet potatoes for this recipe. You can bake them, allow the potatoes to cool and scoop out the flesh. Another way is to peel the sweet potatoes, cut into inch cubes, and boil them in water until they are tender. Roasting sweet potatoes is an excellent way to cook them too. Place peeled and cubed sweet potatoes on baking sheet, drizzle with a little olive oil and roast at 450 degrees for 30 minutes or until tender.
    I boiled the potatoes until tender, about 15 minutes.
  • Once your sweet potatoes are cooked, mash them with a fork and allow to cool to room temp before using in the recipe.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare a 12 cup muffin pan with paper muffin liners and lightly spray with nonstick spray.
  • In a medium bowl, combine flour. oats, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
  • Using a large bowl and a hand mixer, combine mashed sweet potato, pumpkin puree, 1/2 cup brown sugar, coconut oil, milk, eggs, and vanilla bean paste. Add in the flour mixture and mix until combined.
  • Place batter into muffin cups using a muffin scoop. Set aside while making the streusel topping.
  • In a small bowl, combine the remaining ingredients for topping: cinnamon, dark brown sugar, crumbled cinnamon snack mix, and pecans. Top each muffin with a generous sprinkle of the topping mixture.
  • Bake muffins for 22 to 25 minutes, or until the toothpick comes out clean. Allow to cool a few minutes before eating.
  • Muffins can be frozen in an airtight container – allow to cool completely before freezing. To reheat, simply thaw and eat; or microwave a few seconds.

Notes

Tips, Tricks, and FAQs
  • You can use all sweet potatoes in this recipe, or even all pumpkin.
  • Baking, boiling, or roasting the sweet potatoes are the preferred methods.
  • If you have an Instant Pot, you can cook your sweet potatoes in that. This link is great!
  • Leftover sweet potatoes are also great to use for the muffins.
  • Be sure your cooked and mashed sweet potatoes are cooled before adding to the batter.
  • Can you freeze the muffins? Yes, cool muffins and then store in an airtight container in the freezer.
  • How do you reheat frozen muffins? Allow to thaw and then eat or place in microwave and heat a few seconds.
Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins cut in half on white platter
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#Fall Flavors Giveaway and Sponsor Details

Our sponsors, Millican Pecan, Dixie Crystals, Melissa’s Produce, Taylor & Colledge, Nairn’s, and Republic of Tea, have furnished participating bloggers with complimentary product to use in their recipe creations that they will be sharing this week. These same sponsors have generously offered prizes for our giveaway so be sure to enter and share with your friends so they can enter too. Be sure to follow our Fall Flavors Pinterest account for more inspiration.

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Six (6) winners will be randomly selected. The prize packages will be sent directly from the giveaway sponsors. Bloggers are not responsible for prize fulfillment. Winners have 24 hours to respond once notified by email, or they forfeit the prize and an alternate winner will be chosen. The #FallFlavors bloggers are not responsible for the fulfillment or delivery of the prize packages. Bloggers hosting this giveaway and their immediate family members living in the household cannot enter or win the giveaway. Entries will be verified. No purchase necessary. Void where prohibited by law. Must be 18 years of age or older to enter giveaway and the contest is open only to US residents. This promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by, or associated with Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter or any other social channel mentioned in the #FallFlavors posts or entries. Thank you to our sponsors Millican Pecan Company, Dixie Crystals, Melissa’s Produce, Taylor & Colledge, Republic of Tea, and Nairn’s for providing prizes.

Friday’s #FallFlavors Recipes:

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Beverages

  • Apple Cider Milk Tea With Boba And Caramel Apple from Magical Ingredients
  • Apple Cider Old Fashioned from Books n’ Cooks

Breakfast and Baked Goods

  • Apple Cider Donut Muffins from Cheese Curd In Paradise
  • Pear and Apple Cider Scones from A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures
  • Spiced Pumpkin Coffee Cake from Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks

Side Dishes

  • Balsamic Roasted Purple Brussels Sprouts W/ Grapes & Chestnuts from Savory Moments
  • Cinnamon Sweet Potato Pumpkin Muffins from Blogghetti
  • Fall Roasted Vegetable Medley from Family Around the Table
  • Glazed Cippolini Onions With Rosemary from Life Love and Good Food
  • Sweet Potato Latkes from Take Two Tapas

Main Dishes

  • Apple Cider Pulled Pork With Apple Slaw from Simple and Savory
  • Butternut Squash Pasta Sauce from Jen around the world

Desserts

  • Apple Blondies from Eat Move Make
  • Apple Turnover from Art of Natural Living
  • Butterscotch Pie from Lemon Blossoms
  • Gf Cinnamon Graham Cracker Cupcakes from Frugal & Fit
  • No- Bake Pumpkin Cheesecake With Salted Caramel Glaze from West Via Midwest
  • Oatmeal Scotchies from Palatable Pastime
  • Pear Bundt Cake from The Fresh Cooky
  • Pear Cobbler from Fresh April Flours
  • Pear Crisp Ice Cream from Jolene’s Recipe Journal
  • Pecan Butter Cookies from An Affair from the Heart
  • Pecan Pie Bars from Devour Dinner
  • Pumpkin Cupcakes from House of Nash Eats
  • Pumpkin Spice Sugar Cookies from SueBee Homemaker
  • Rosemary Pecan Shortbread With Honey-Ginger Icing from The Spiffy Cookie
  • Sweet Tea Panna Cotta from Karen’s Kitchen Stories
  • Turtle Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches from That Recipe

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Comments

  1. Lynn @ Fresh April Flours says

    September 17, 2021 at 10:14 AM

    That topping sounds so good! I love that you used more than just pumpkin in these muffins. Yum!

    Reply
  2. Jennifer says

    September 17, 2021 at 2:06 PM

    I love how versatile sweet potatoes are. These muffins look perfect. I would love to sink my teeth into one right now.

    Reply
  3. Sue Ringsdorf says

    September 17, 2021 at 3:35 PM

    5 stars
    These muffins are super moist and delish! Thanks for sharing your recipe!

    Reply
  4. Jolene says

    September 17, 2021 at 6:15 PM

    I’ve been trying to get my niece to eat sweet potatoes and I think this would be a great recipes to make with her!

    Reply
  5. Jennifer says

    September 17, 2021 at 8:01 PM

    5 stars
    There are so many great flavors in these muffins. Perfect way to get me going in the morning.

    Reply
  6. Hezzi-D says

    September 17, 2021 at 9:41 PM

    The combination of pumpkin and sweet potatoes is perfect for fall.

    Reply
  7. Kathleen Pope says

    September 18, 2021 at 8:14 AM

    5 stars
    What a great way to sneak more veggies in and that topping! Yum!

    Reply
  8. Inger @ Art of Natural Liivng says

    September 18, 2021 at 3:03 PM

    Love these! THey look so tasty and healthy!

    Reply
  9. Karen says

    September 18, 2021 at 6:49 PM

    Great use of the snax! These muffins are perfect for fall.

    Reply
  10. Amy (Savory Moments) says

    September 18, 2021 at 9:16 PM

    These muffins are totally packed with fall flavors and they look delicious!

    Reply
  11. Rebecca says

    September 18, 2021 at 9:28 PM

    5 stars
    I love the simplicity of these and how easy they were to make. They were so sweet and delicious and the streusel topping gave it a great texture.

    Reply
  12. Amy Nash says

    September 23, 2021 at 4:47 PM

    5 stars
    These muffins look so good! I can’t wait to make them this weekend!

    Reply
  13. Radha says

    September 23, 2021 at 5:35 PM

    This is a lovely muffin filled with lovely fall veggies! yum!

    Reply
  14. Christie says

    November 6, 2021 at 8:07 AM

    These look so moist and delicious! And I love the sweet potatoes with the pumpkin in there. Yum!

    Reply
  15. Ellen says

    November 26, 2021 at 10:56 PM

    What a great way to start the day! I’d love one of these muffins with a cup of coffee.

    Reply

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