Sweet Potato Cranberry Sauce Muffin Recipe

We had sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce leftover from Thanksgiving. Good Cook challenged me to come up with a recipe using Thanksgiving leftovers. My boys really like pumpkin muffins and bread so I thought they would enjoy sweet potato muffins too! At the last minute, my father-in-law said what about adding cranberries? The light bulb went on and I decided to add a teaspoon of leftover cranberry sauce to each muffin. These muffins were most and almost like spice cake. You could use leftover sweet potato casserole too!

After mixing up the batter, I placed the batter in the Good Cook Muffin Tin. Note that the batter is thick! Make a well in the center of the batter and add a teaspoon of cranberry sauce to each muffin. In retrospect, I should have placed a little batter in the muffin tin, added the cranberry sauce and then placed more batter on top! Either way, they taste good!

Sweet Potato Cranberry Muffins Recipe | Good Cook Recipe #49

Author: Renae

Recipe type: Bread

Serves: 12

Ingredients

1 Egg
⅓ Cup Dark Brown Sugar
¼ Cup Granulated Sugar
⅓ Cup Vegetable Oil
½ Cup Buttermilk
½ teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
2 Cups Flour
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
Dash of Nutmeg
2 teaspoon Baking Soda
1 Cup Sweet Potato, Mashed
¼ Cup Cranberry Sauce (more or less)

Instructions

Preheat oven to 35o degrees.
In a large mixing bowl add egg, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Beat until fluffy.
Mix in buttermilk, oil, salt and vanilla extract.
In a separate bowl mix flour, cinnamon, nutmeg and baking soda.
Slowly incorporate dry mixture with sugar egg mixture using an electric mixer.
Add in sweet potato mash.
Spray a muffin tin with cooking spray. Fill the muffin tin cups about ¾ full with batter.
Make a well in the middle of the batter and add cranberry sauce.
Bake for 18-20 minutes at 350 degrees.

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Renae Chiovaro

Renae is a married working mom of two handsome boys. She works as a registered dental hygienist by day and blogs here at How to Have it All by night. She enjoys cooking from scratch, working in her vegetable garden and functional training.