Purple Sweet Potato Muffin Tops
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.

- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 4 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1/2 cup All-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup Almond flour
- 1/3 cup Granulated sugar
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 1/3 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Nutmeg
- 1/2 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 Egg
- 2/3 cup or approximately 1/2 of a medium purple sweet potato* (baked)
- 3 Tbsp. Almond milk
- 2 tsp Pure vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp. Halloween sprinkles (optional)
- 1 Tbsp. baked and mashed purple sweet potato
- 1 Tbsp. Almond Milk
- 14 cup Powdered sugar
Instructions
- 1
Preheat oven to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- 2
Gather the 11 ingredients.
- 3
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.
- 4
Then, add in the wet ingredients such as the egg, almond milk, and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- 5
Mash the baked purple sweet potato well and add that to the muffin top batter. This muffin top batter will be very thick.
- 6
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.
- 7
Sprinkle on some festive sprinkles like some eyeball sprinkles or any Halloween sprinkles you have.
- 8
Then, bake these in an oven that has been preheated to 375 degrees Fahrenheit, for 20-22 minutes, until the muffin tops are firm.
- 9
Once baked, these can be cooled on a wire rack and eaten.
- 10
Or, they can be drizzled with an icing that is also naturally colored with purple sweet potato.
- 11
Making the (optional) Purple Icing
- 12
Make the icing by mashing a spoonful of purple sweet potato with some almond milk.
- 13
Then, strain the purple almond milk.
- 14
Add in some powdered sugar to the strained purple almond milk and mixed it until it is not runny and at a ribbon-like consistency.
- 15
Then, drizzle this purple icing onto the muffin tops and added more Halloween sprinkles.