This weekend didn’t feel like a weekend. Probably because I was stuck inside for most of it. It snowed like 3 feet. Not really, probably like 16 inches, but I’m pretty sure my car only comes 5 inches off the ground, no it’s not a ghetto low rider, well maybe, but I seriously couldn’t even pull onto the street. I spent 30 minutes cleaning off my car to only make it 2 feet into the street. Ok, that was an exaggeration. I made it like 4 inches into the street. So my friend Sergio had to take me under his wing and drive me everywhere. I love feeling 15 again. Relying on others to grocery shop, work, and workout is really fulfilling.
But the weekend still turned out pretty fun. Laura, Sergio and I played the 3 best friends card and did everything together. We went to breakfast together, went grocery shopping together, then helped each other pick out outfits. Well Sergio sat there and rolled his eyes as I took 12 shirts out of my closet. I hate dressing up. My PaleOMG shirts are way easier to sport. And my boobs are way more comfortable in sports bras. You just can’t always wear a sports bra with real people clothes. Dumb.
So I wore my big girl bra to a show we went to see downtown. We saw Passion Pit or Passion Pit’s DJ or a person from Passion Pit. I don’t really know. I think I’ve heard like 2 Passion Pit songs so I didn’t really know what to expect. But I was pleasantly surprised by feeling like an old fart. The venue was bumping with teenagers who were excited to get out of their parents house and be able to dry hump while on hallucinogenic drugs. What better way to spend your Saturday night eh?!?! Drugs are weird. Teenagers making out while trying to dance to some kind of beat is weirder.
Guess what else I did this weekend?! Sweated my ass off while shoveling our sidewalk. Maybe we shouldn’t have waited until it was complete ice slush. And when I say we, I mean me. Laura sat and watched. And took pictures. I did an overhead squat with a shovel just to be really creative and original. I should send that pic into the main site. I’M SURE they would totally use it. Wanna see it?! Sh*t yeah you do.
I’m watching Dirty Dancing. I love watching movies that I’ve seen a hundred times. They get more corny every time I watch them. This guy just walked up to Baby and said ‘This danish is pure protein”….like what? Missing some of those lines in movies makes me really develop of disappointment in myself. A line like THAT and all I remember is ‘Nobody puts Baby in the corner’?? That’s stupid. You disappoint me JB.
OH!!! And I did handstands in my house. No big deal.
Sweet Potato Brownies
- Yield: 5-8 1x
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato
- 3 eggs, whisked
- 1/4 cup coconut oil, melted
- 1/3 cup raw honey
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons coconut flour
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- pinch of salt
- 1/2 cup Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips
Instructions
- Time to bake that sweet potato. Preheat your oven to 425 degrees, use a fork to puncture holes all around it, then throw in the oven for 25-30 minutes. (I’m sure you could microwave it, but I like the ole fashioned way. I’m just so ole fashioned)
- Once your sweet potato is soft and cooked through, peel off the skin and mash it up in a bowl. And turn your oven down to 350 degrees.
- Now add your wet ingredients: eggs, coconut oil, honey, and vanilla to the bowl and mix together.
- Then add your dry ingredients: coconut flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and chocolate chips.
- Mix well to incorporate all that goodness.
- Pour into an 8×8 glass baking dish
- Bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Let rest to cool a bit.
- Eat those b*tches. Try not to eat them all in one sitting. Like what may have happened in my kitchen….oops.
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I felt compelled to comment, to demonstrate my total GRATITUDE for you and this recipe. Your blog rocks, and am looking forwards to creating many more wonderful dishes/blog stalking you, but for now I’m in brownie heaven. Seriously, this is awesome.
I added some more cocoa powder to increase the chocolateyness (never a bad thing) and then had to juicy it up a bit with some coconut cream.
Working from home = bad, as the remains are just staring me in the face. They’re not going to last.
Paleo omg i just want to say your my idol, no way do u have a big butt, its an awesome muscle, lover your blogs and you have helped me and my fellow crossfitters in so many ways, we all follow the blog and are slowly tranferring ourselves and our families to the crossfit and plaeo lifestyle.. for a small town of 13 pubs and one gym ( which is now a crossfit box) we have been changing the culture of our town from drinking to training..thanks for the help!
I made these but only the edges tasted like brownies, I cooked then an extra 10 minutes and it was more like pie. I think we need a measurement of sweetpotato, like 1/2 cup cooked sweetpotato. The edges were bomb! But it was more like brownie pie.
I meant to give 4 starts, iPads can be super annoying!
I’ve been meaning to make these brownies for months now, and ran across them again in the Best of 2012 Paleo Magazine issue (congratulations!). I made these today and the consistency is more of a sweet potato souffle rather than a brownie. Very wet. It doesn’t say how much sweet potato I need to use and since potatoes come in a wide variety of sizes I think I used a big one. can you estimate how much potato you use? 1 cup? 2 cups? Thank you! The taste is great but my kids won’t eat them because of the non-brownie texture. I would give 5 star if I can figure out the ratio. I added about 1T more coconut flour and cocoa, too.
everytime i’ve used a different size, but the puree comes out to around 1 cup to 1.5 cups and still works for me 🙂 you should try my magic brownie recipe for your kids, that one really has a brownie texture
I just wanted to thank you for this recipe. I have made it 3 times now already and I actually crave it. I’m making them again tonight.
This time I’m printing it out the recipe and keeping it forever!
So, I absolutely loved this recipe. It turned out great even though I substituted the coconut oil for coconut milk (had a huge carton I was trying to get rid of). I also absolutely loved your chocolate cake/brownie recipe. Because they’re two incredible recipes, I thought…’hey, why not combine them?’ I did. And the batch turned out wonderful!! Double the paleo goodness.
So grateful for all your recipes and ideas. Your recipes are always my favorite!!
I’ve made these brownies on several occasions and I just love them. It seems I never have the chocolate chips when I make them but have found an extra tablespoon of cocoa makes up for it. Thanks for all your wonderful recipes!
Hey could you make these with almond flour instead of coconut flour?
yes but i can’t say how much. probably 1-1.5 cups of almond flour
I just did a 12 day potato fast so I was excited to try this potato brownie recipe. I made a couple of adjustments, I melted the chocolate into the batter instead. i made a couple other minor adjustments for taste, but overall they were very fudgy and delcious. i took them out at the 35minute mark. it was the first time i ever really smelled real brownies since going paleo. they tasted just like regular brownies, minus the couple orange strings of sweet potato poking out between the bites, but it doesnt taste like sweet potato. that can be resolved by blending the potato rather than just mashing with a fork. but my boyfriend was sick with flu and sleeping and i didnt want to wake him. fyi, i measured my sweet potato after cooking and peeling and it was 200g exactly, which came out to be a little less than a cup but more than 3/4 cup. it was the biggest potato i had and i thought it was going to be too much, but after i weighed and measured it was just barely enough!