These Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Brownies are flourless, sweetened with dates and full of chocolate flavor. They taste so good you’ll never believe they’re a healthy dessert!
*Originally published June 2014*
Hi Friends!
To make these brownies you just need a few simple ingredients:
- Medjool dates – if yours aren’t soft and squishy, try soaking them in hot water for 10 minutes first!
- Mashed sweet potato – to make one quickly, stab a sweet potato all over with a knife and microwave 5-6 minutes.
- Peanut butter- you could also use almond butter or another nut or seed butter
- Eggs
- Cocoa powder – unsweetened is best!
- Applesauce – you could probably also sub mashed banana
- Baking soda
- Chocolate chips – we like Hershey’s special dark
That’s it! Minus maybe the dates, I bet you have all of the ingredients already in your pantry. If you’re feeling skeptical as to whether these will turn out without having any flour, you’re not alone…but believe me when I tell you they’re worth a try!
Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Brownies
Here’s the recipe:
PrintGluten-Free Sweet Potato Brownies
These Gluten-Free Sweet Potato Brownies are flourless, sweetened with dates and full of chocolate flavor. They taste so good you’ll never believe they’re a healthy dessert!
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 30 minutes
- Yield: 9 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup chopped, pitted Medjool dates
- 2/3 cup cooked sweet potato, mashed
- 3/4 c peanut butter (or other nut/seed butter)
- 2 eggs
- 1/3 c unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 c applesauce
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2/3 c dark chocolate chips
Instructions
- Put the dates, sweet potato, peanut butter, eggs and applesauce in a food processor (or high-powered blender) and process until smooth.
- Add the cocoa powder and baking soda and pulse until combined.
- Add in the chocolate chips a pulse a few times to mix in.
- Spoon into a greased 9×9 pan and bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes until a toothpick inserted in comes out clean.
- Optional frosting: When cooled, top with nut butter, melt nut butter and more chocolate chips in the microwave, stir to combine and spread over brownies or top with your favorite frosting
Notes
To quickly get mashed sweet potato, stab a sweet potato all over with a knife and microwave 5-6 minutes.
Aren’t they pretty?!
I like topping them with peanut butter but you can also enjoy them plain or sprinkle some chocolate chips on top right when they come out of the oven and then spread them into a frosting once they warm up!
Enjoy!
–Lindsay–
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These look amazing! I love brownies. Pinning these to try!
Definitely pretty! I just wrote today how you take such pretty food photographs! Another job well done! 🙂
thanks so much friend!
These look great! Love the addition of sweet potato!
So glad you revamped this…not the biggest sweet potato fan but damn these look great- especially hidden in brownie form!
you won’t even taste the sweet potato 😉
These look really amazing! And I love that the recipe isn’t too complicated. These are definitely going on my “try” list.
yay!! hope you love them!
I think the nut butter really adds to the photo. I love the topping. They look amazing though and really caught my eye!
yay! glad to hear it!
YUMMY! I really need this in my life! (:
agreed. you definitely do 🙂
These brownies are simply amazing! I just so happen to LOVE brownies, so the fact that I can make a gluten free and healthy version is awesome! Great recipe!
thanks holly!!
way to make me hungry for brownies at 6am. Pre workout fuel, yes?
agreed 🙂
Love these! My Boyfriend won’t let me put bananas in my baking either, these are going to be such a hit with him. I can’t wait to make them, in fact I know there’s some sweet potato lurking in the cupboards at the moment!
yay! happy eating!
OMG! yes please! I have some dates that need to be used….
Yum just pinned! These look so decadent.
thanks so much heather!
I remember seeing these, but I never got around to making them. So glad you reminded me about them- the ingredient list is perfect for a treat for my 4yo, too!
yay! hope she loves them!
YUM!! these look delish and uh, so pretty. I can’t make pretty desserts, I am incapable, but I shall try 😉
usually i just smear it on top, screw the drizzle 🙂
I love sweet potatoes – I’ll have to try these out! They look fabulous.
t me know what you think!
These look delicious! Another added bonus they are paleo!
win win win!
I love brownies sooo much! Definitely my favorite dessert. And with the healthy addition of sweet potatoes? I’m so in 🙂
Definitely trying these – thanks for reposting!
So glad you reposted these! They look amazing…Sunday brownie baking may have to happen this weekend…. 🙂
sounds like a great idea to me!
Love sweet potatoes and brownies so these will be a must make win for me! I’m still using my iphone for food photography until I buy a real camera but it’s amazing to see the improvement in bloggers photos and what a difference a real camera can make, these look beautiful 🙂
thanks so much jess!
I’ve made these multiple times from your first posting. I like the pretty new pics!
thanks Angela 🙂
Oh yum!
These look delicious. Do you have an suggestions for a nut butter substitute? Lots of but allergies in my family but I know sweet potato brownies would be a big hit!
hmmm could you do sunflower seed butter? You might be able to try adding some coconut oil or avocado to replace some of the fat nut butter provides…or even a little butter or full fat yogurt?
what a great idea! I never would have thought putting sweet potatoes in brownies! I love this blog 🙂
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Those brownies look yummy!
This is really nice looking recipe. Honestly, I have never tried anything like it but, well, there is always first for everything.
As always, thank you for hosting! I pinned your GF sweet potato brownies! 🙂
I made these for a work lunch and people were very impressed. I was pleasantly surprised at how well they binded and were moist. For those lookign to make these they are more like a cake brownie or least in my experience that is how they came out :)!
Thanks for the recipe!
glad you liked them!
What could I use in place of dates?
You could try replacing with sugar, i’d probably use less than the full amount or another fruit like applesauce or mashed bananas but i haven’t tried them with those substitutions!
Wow, I just made these and love ’em! 🙂 I even made them “eggless” by subbing with “flax eggs” (1 egg = 1 T. ground flax + 2.5 T. water). I didn’t have dark chocolate chips on hand, so I omitted them–really good even without! I think that a nice add-in would be walnuts 🙂 Anyway, I used almond butter which was perfect. My family loved them, too–feeling blessed! Thank you for such a healthy, yummy recipe!
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A sweet potato brownie! Never heard of anyone having done this. Very ingenious. I have to try this.
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What is nut butter? Is this the same as cashew or peanut butter?please could someone help
any sort of nut butter will work. peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, etc.
We followed this exact recipe and loved it!
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Delicious! My new favorite healthy brownie recipe. Thank you so much for sharing!
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These are absolutely INSANE. So fudge-y and delicious! Seriously just as good (if not better) as a “regular” brownie, but bonus: it’s healthy!
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I have to admit I was skeptical about these brownies but they were amazing! I used milk chocolate chips instead of dark – delicious! These are going into regular rotation.
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My husband and I love this recipe! I’ve been making it for years and they are his favorite since he doesn’t like overly sweet desserts. I enjoy these so much and I really love that it’s full of good nutrients. I have a few hormone disorders so these are perfect for me since all of the ingredients are friendly for my dietary needs and they really satisfy the chocolate and sweets cravings!
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