Paleo Sweet Potato Muffins Recipe (Pro Tip for You) (2024)

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Next up with a muffin recipe in our March Muffin Madness series is Tessa, also known via her blog as Tessa, The Domestic Diva. Tessa is sharing Paleo Sweet Potato Muffins.

Tessa focuses on making family foods as healthy as possible. She says that real food is her obsession. She has learned to cook without the major allergens and adapt to other special dietary needs, so she says there’s something for everyone on her blog: recipes that are gluten free, casein free, vegan, paleo, sugar free, and more. Even better, Tessa is “always willing to help you tweak things to YOUR tastes and dietary needs!”

Enjoy today’s recipein our series—with Tessa’shelpful bakingguidance—andsee the whole line-up of bloggers, blogs, and muffin recipes here.

Tessa’s Favorite Ingredients for Paleo, Vegan, and Nut-Free Baking and the “Why” on Roasted Sweet Potatoes

Tessa’s Paleo Sweet Potato Muffins are grain free, paleo, and vegan. Those three don’t often go together. (Stacy and Matt of Real Everything—formerly Paleo Parents—also emphasized that factwhen they sharedthe grain-free, paleo, and vegan status of their Chunky Monkey Muffins earlier in our series.)

As Tessa points out, while eggs are often the key to successful grain-free baking because they add needed structure, the problem is that “lots of people with compromised guts can’t do eggs OR nuts OR grains!” She adds that there are some special ingredients that she uses to create paleo, egg-free, and nut-free recipes. The following ingredientsare her favorites for creating recipes like her Paleo Sweet Potato Muffins, which she says are “soft with a denser crumb; feels like a meal in the mouth!”

~ Coconut Butter (use her directions to make your own if you’d prefer)

~ Whole Psyllium Husks (they help with binding egg-free baked goods)

~ Coconut Flour (which she describes as grain free, nut free, and a great flour to cook with, but notes that it’s totally unique in its behavior).

Finally, she emphasizes that roasted sweet potatoes should be used in this recipe. Why roasted sweet potatoes?Tessa explains:

“Nothing compares to a roasted sweet potato….not boiled, not blanched, not steamed! Roasting brings out the maximum sweetness which is why this recipe can use so little sweetener. Will any mashed squash or sweet potato work? Sure…but know it WILL change the end flavor, and you may need to add additional sweetener in the form of stevia or palm sugar to make it good!

TO ROAST YOUR SWEET POTATOES: Simply scrub your sweet potato clean, prick all over with a fork, and bake in 350 degree oven for about an hour until some of the sugars are seeping out of the holes! It should be uber soft and deflated looking when it comes out of the oven and deflates! I make multiple potatoes at once and use them in smoothies or other treats (pureed with coconut milk…swoon!)” (Update from Shirley: I also LOVE this method from Chocolate-Covered Katie! Her three tricks for the best sweet potatoes really work!)

Tessa’s Paleo Sweet Potato Muffins Recipe

Originally published March 3, 2014; updated November 15, 2022.