Made with 12 ingredients and naturally colored with purple sweet potato, these Purple Sweet Potato Muffin Tops are a fun breakfast, snack, or dessert. They can be made without any muffin pan – making them an easy and portable treat for Halloween.

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Made with 12 ingredients and naturally colored with purple sweet potato, these Purple Sweet Potato Muffin Tops are a fun breakfast, snack, or dessert. They can be made without any muffin pan – making them an easy and portable treat for Halloween. 

This summer, to celebrate my love of muffin tops and the 11th anniversary of my blog, I published a cookbook titled “Muffin Top Mania,” which is a collection of 51 muffin top recipes. 

Well after Muffin Top Mania was released, I harvested a massive crop of purple sweet potatoes. So, I decided to use some purple sweet potato to make a batch of muffin tops that were naturally colored with purple sweet potato. I figured I could add some festive sprinkles to these purple muffin tops and serve them as a fun treat, snack, or breakfast for Halloween.

I love these Purple Sweet Potato Muffin Tops as they are:

• deliciously spiced with ginger, nutmeg, and vanilla,
• easy to make without a muffin top pan,
• dairy-free,
• naturally colored and contain no artificial dyes,
• made with only 11 ingredients.

What are the ingredients needed to make these Purple Sweet Potato Muffin Tops?

I think that you might have all, or most, of these 11 ingredients in your kitchen:

1. All-purpose flour
2. Almond flour
3. Granulated sugar
4. Baking powder
5. Salt
6. Nutmeg
7. Cinnamon
8. Egg
9. Baked purple sweet potato
10. Almond milk
11. Pure vanilla extract

Equipment Needed

These are so easy to make and you do not need any specialty muffin tin, food processor, blender, or mixer. 

All you will need is

• a spoon,
• a medium bowl,
• a fork (to mash the purple sweet potato),
• a silpat or parchment paper, and
• a baking tray.

Instructions:

Once all the 11 ingredients are gathered, add the dry ingredients such as the almond flour, the all-purpose flour, salt, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, and sugar to a medium bowl and mix them with a spoon.

Then, add in the wet ingredients such as the egg, almond milk, and vanilla extract.

Mash the purple sweet potato well and add that to the muffin top batter. This muffin top batter will be very thick. 

Then, using a spoon, scoop spoonfuls of the thick batter, dividing the batter into 4 muffin top mounds. This can be easily done with the back of a spoon. 

Sprinkle on some festive sprinkles. I added some eyeball sprinkles.

Then, bake these in an oven that has been preheated to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, for 20-22 minutes, until the muffin tops are firm.

Once baked, these can be cooled on a wire rack and eaten. 

Or, they can be drizzled with an icing that is also naturally colored with purple sweet potato. 

Making the Purple Icing

I made the icing by mashing a spoonful of purple sweet potato with some almond milk. I strained the purple almond milk. Then, I added in some powdered sugar to the strained purple almond milk and mixed it until it was not runny and at a ribbon-like consistency. Then, I drizzled this purple icing onto the muffin tops and added more Halloween sprinkles.

Alternatives and Variations

All-purpose flour: AP flour can be replaced with gluten-free flour to make these muffin tops gluten-free.

Almond flour: I like the texture almond flour adds to these muffin tops, so most of my muffin tops are made with an almond flour and AP flour mixture. However, if you do not have almond flour, it can be replaced with any other nut flour. Or, it can also be replaced with AP flour. Simply replace the 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour and 1/2 cup of almond flour with 1 cup of all-purpose flour.

Sugar: If you are looking for an alternative to sugar, it can be replaced with any zero-calorie sweetener. Honey or maple syrup can also be used instead of granulated sugar.

Spices: the nutmeg and cinnamon can be replaced with plain cinnamon or a combination of cinnamon and cardamom. You could also use allspice as well. 

Purple Sweet Potato: When I harvested my purple sweet potato, I baked most of them to freeze and store them. When I made these, I defrosted some of the baked purple sweet potato, mashed it up, and used it in these MTs. But, you could make these with any kind of sweet potato, or even pumpkin, like these pumpkin streusel muffin tops.

Almond Milk: As I am lactose intolerant, I used unsweetened almond milk in these muffin tops. However, if lactose is your friend, then feel free to use any milk of your choice.

Add-ins

If you are a fan of texture, then, some nuts such as pecans or walnuts can be added to the thick batter. 

For a more indulgent spin, any assortment of milk chocolate chips and/or semi-sweet chocolate chunks can also be added in.

To make these with a healthy spin, a teaspoon each of of hemp seeds, flax seeds, and chia seeds can be folded into the batter, along with some nuts to amp up the fiber and nutritional density of these purple sweet potato muffin tops.

How do you store these purple sweet potato muffin tops?

These purple sweet potato muffin tops can be stored in an airtight container, in the fridge. They should stay fresh for 3-4 days. These can also be frozen. If you choose to freeze these, make sure to wrap each one well in plastic wrap before placing them in an airtight container and placing them in the freezer. To thaw them, take them out of the freezer and leave them on the counter until they come to room temperature.

Want more Muffin Top Recipes?

If you like making muffin tops (or MTs) like these instead of grabbing those store-bought mixes, I have a plethora of muffin top recipes on this blog, in addition to the 51 Muffin Top recipes in Muffin Top Mania. The MTs are all small batch recipes with fun flavors, so check out the recipes below:

1. These Lemon Blueberry Muffin Tops
2. These Easy Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffin Tops
3. These Easy Strawberry Streusel Muffin Tops with White Chocolate
4. These Chocolate Chip Apricot Muffin Tops
5. These Double Chocolate Muffin Tops
   

And if you still want more, make sure to grab a copy of Muffin Top Mania for yourself or for gifting to a friend or two!