Sweet Potato Pecan Brownies

December 8, 2020 Megan Matthews and Patricia Schroeck, Sweets You Can Eat

Sweet Potato Pecan Brownies

Ingredients

1 and 1/2 cups raw pecans
1 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup cooked sweet potato
1/2 cup dates
1/2 cup strong coffee
1/4 cup seed butter - tahini or sunflower
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
3/4 cup coconut sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
Dry
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon each (chai): ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg & cardamom ground spices
Top
large crystal salt
14 raw pecan halves

Makes 14 brownies

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Instructions

1. Prepare 2 12-cupcake-tins with 14 paper inserts or grease liberally 14 square brownie tins with olive oil. Preheat oven to 350ºF/180ºC.
2. Toast pecans in oven for 8 minutes until lightly browned. Watch carefully as they will burn quickly. Rough chop and set aside.
3. Combine olive oil with chocolate chips in a microwave safe bowl and heat for 60-90 seconds. Let sit for 3 minutes, then stir to combine into a glossy chocolate sauce. Set aside to cool.
4. In a blender combine cooked sweet potato, pitted, and chopped dates, hot coffee, seed butter and vanilla. Blend on medium speed until mostly smooth. Transfer sweet potato batter into a large bowl.
5. Make a well in the center of the sweet potato batter and add eggs, coconut sugar and salt. Whisk for 1 minutes, until fluffy and creamy as the two batters blend. Finally, stir in the melted chocolate sauce.
6. Now add the dry ingredients: cocoa powder, baking powder, 4 teaspoons ground chai spice and stir gently into the wet batter. Lastly, fold in the toasted pecans.
7. Scoop batter into prepared tins. Fill each about two thirds full until you run out of batter. Top each brownie with one raw pecan half, plus a big pinch large crystal salt.
8. Bake 15 minutes. Do not overbake, these brownies will firm as they cool in the pan.

Check out these gorgeous pecans from a small family farm in Lousiana: Calianna Pecan Farms

We also love to bake with tins that have squares for individual single-serve cakes. Check out these made in the USA.

Photos by Milkshake Creative

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