Just four healthy ingredients are needed to whip up these rich, fudgy and extremely moist chocolate brownies! Using sweet potatoes as a base, these flourless chocolate brownies are naturally paleo, vegan, gluten-free and completely refined sugar-free! A quick and easy snack recipe to satisfy the sweet tooth instantly!
These healthy four ingredient flourless sweet potato brownies are dense, fudgy and so damn moist, you literally can taste the texture by just looking at it- You also only need FOUR ingredients!
The best part is that no butter, oil, flour or sugar was needed to provide the amazing taste and texture- The mashed sweet potato and proportions of other ingredients are to thank for it!
Not only are these four ingredient sweet potato brownies have no flour, they also are completely vegan, gluten-free, egg-free, paleo and refined sugar-free!
As always, these brownies are even more delicious once cooled completely and refrigerated. Those who enjoy brownies this way already know that!
How to make sweet potato brownies
The Ingredients
- Sweet Potato. A mashed and cooled sweet potato provides the starch base and a deliciously fudgy texture.
- Maple Syrup. 100% pure maple syrup provides sweetness, along with an even fudgier texture. A little goes a long way, and you won’t even TASTE the maple flavor.
- Almond Butter. Drippy and smooth almond butter adds healthy fats! Be sure to use one that has no added sugar or salt.
- Cocoa Powder. Obviously needed for the chocolate flavor, right?
The Directions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F. Line a loaf pan or small square pan with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a high-speed blender or food processor, add all your ingredients and blend until a smooth batter remains.
- Transfer your sweet potato brownie batter into the lined pan. Top with optional chocolate chips and place in the oven. Bake brownies for 18-20 minutes, or until the brownies are cooked through.
- Remove the brownies from the oven and allow them to cool in the pan completely, before slicing into pieces.
Storing, freezing and thawing sweet potato brownies
- To store. Place cooled brownies in a sealed container and keep them in the fridge. Brownies refrigerated will keep fresh for up to 1 week.
- To freeze. You can freeze sweet potato brownies! Wrap brownies individually in parchment paper and place them in a ziplock bag. Brownies kept in the freezer will keep fresh for up to 6 months.
- To thaw. Thaw brownies by keeping them out at room temperature or in the fridge overnight.
More healthy dessert recipes
- Pecan Pie Bars
- Chocolate Pecan Pie Bars
- Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Blondies
- Walnut Brownies
Tools to make sweet potato brownies
- Vitamix blender. Perfect to add all the ingredients into and after a press of a button, all the ingredients are completely blended together!
- Food Processor. Another option is a food processor, which mixes up all the ingredients as well as the vitamix.
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Flourless Sweet Potato Brownies
Ingredients
- 1 cup cooked sweet potato mashed
- 1/2 cup almond butter can sub for any nut or seed butter of choice
- 2 tablespoon pure maple syrup
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips of choice Optional
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180C/350F and grease a loaf pan and set aside.
- In a high-speed blender or food processor, combine all the ingredients and blend well until a smooth brownie batter remains.
- Pour the mixture into the greased pan and bake for around 20 minutes or until cooked through. Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely before slicing into pieces.
Notes
- To store. Place cooled brownies in a sealed container and keep them in the fridge. Brownies refrigerated will keep fresh for up to 1 week.
- To freeze. You can freeze sweet potato brownies! Wrap brownies individually in parchment paper and place them in a ziplock bag. Brownies kept in the freezer will keep fresh for up to 6 months.
- To thaw. Thaw brownies by keeping them out at room temperature or in the fridge overnight.
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The recipe sounds really incredible and simple and I’m definitely going to try this out as soon as I can (i/e tomorrow) 🙂 Can I just ask how many brownies this recipe would make? Thank you!
Hi Isabelle! Depending on how big your pan is, you can get around 8-9 large slices 🙂
What size pan did you use? Would 8×8 work? I don’t care for really thin brownies.
Hi Tricia! I often use a loaf pan which makes beautiful, thick brownies 🙂
So, where or u from Big Man cuz these did not rise @ all here in Colorado & they took about 40 min to cook
Hi Christina! I’m in LA- They aren’t supposed to rise, but cooking time varies! 🙂
Hi!
How many brownies come out from this recipe?
Hi there! I got around 9-10 pieces, but you can adjust it to whichever size you like! 🙂
OMG! This is lush!
I made it without the sugar and used 100% cacao drop.
Soooooo pleased I made double quantity!!
Oh YUM!!!! You must be like me, Caroline- I am obsessed with dark cocoa tastes and would totally hve gone that route too!
These are so good! I skipped the choco chips and used chocolate vegan protein powder cause didn’t have cocoa – worked out perfect. Thank you!!
Oh fantastic- Thanks so much for the feedback, Yana!
This recipes looks so good..I have a diabetic grandson,so I need to know how many carb’s are in this recipe ,if you could help me out, I would be very grateful
Hi Joyce! For sure- If you add the ingredients into myfitnesspal or another calorie calculator, it will provide it for you 🙂 You can then be more specific depending on how many pieces you get from a batch! 🙂
Not sure how to mash sweet potatoes, do I peel and cook first?
Hi there- That would be ideal 🙂
These are great. I added 1/2 of a banana, sliced and mixed in with the hot yams before adding the cacao powder. I also increased the cooking time another 10 minutes. Perfection! The banana helps take away a bit of the chalkiness.
Oh fantastic- Thanks for the feedback, Greg!
Just a quick question…Can you substitute pumpkin for the sweet potatoes?
Hi Wynter- You sure can! Enjoy! 🙂
I suddenly can’t get enough sweet potatoes!.. I have tried the black bean brownies and they were meh… I think these will be better, I do have realistic expectations of course! I wonder if I can sub honey for the pure maple syrup, I don’t have any on hand. ?
Hi Traci- Definitely give it a go 🙂