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Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Muffins

These moist, delicious muffins have an optional streusel topping and a very tender crumb. The perfect holiday breakfast or brunch item when served with a hot cup of coffee or a cold glass of milk. Sprinkled with a dusting of powdered sugar and cocoa, these sweet, soulful muffins are the stuff food memories are made of! Make some today and start your own holiday traditions!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 18 ingredients
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Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Muffins

Why it works: Cinnamon and nutmeg match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11,917 recipes. Both carry estragole, which smells anise, licorice. The science ↓

Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Muffins

Serves 24
Prep20 min
Cook40 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1188Calories
26 gProtein
46 gFat
168 gCarbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 13 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Flour1 cup (125g) all-purpose455
Potato1 medium (173g) baked161
Chocolate1 oz (28g) semisweet155
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Butter1 tbsp (14g)102
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Pecan1 half (4g)20
Nutmeg1 tsp ground (2.2g)12
Cinnamon1 tsp ground (2.6g)6
Allspice1 tsp ground (1.9g)5
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Waternot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cinnamon + nutmegtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together11,917 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  2. Cinnamon + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,536 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Nutmeg + allspicetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,331 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Sweet potato + cinnamontop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together539 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sweet potato + nutmegtop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together414 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the sweet potato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (sugar, canola oil, egg, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice):

  1. Sweet potatothe original
  2. Arrowrootfits about as well
  3. Shallotfits about as well
  4. Mustardfits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against sugar, canola oil, egg, flour, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.