Sweet Potato Brownies

Method

• 1)

  Preheat oven to 200C fan bake

• 2)

  Peel sweet potato and chop into thin slices

• 3)

  Put sweet potato into pot, cover in water and place on high heat on the stove

• 4)

  Put almond meal, cacao, baking powder, peanut butter, vanilla extract and maple syrup into a mixing bowl and mix

• 5)

  Seperate 2 eggs into yolk and whites. Put yolks into mixing bowl with other ingredients and mix. Put whites into a separate bowl, and keep aside

• 6)

  Chop up chocolate. Roughly if you want chunks. Put into mixing bowl and mix with other ingredients

• 7)

  Line baking tine with baking paper. Run tin and paper with butter or spray oil

• 8)

  After approximately 20 minutes, sweet potato should be cooked. Take off heat and run cold water over the pot to help it cool, then strain

• 9)

  Weigh out 200g of cooked sweet potato, and add to the mixture. Mix till a paste consistency

• 10)

  Whisk eggs whites in the separate bowl into stiff peaks

• 11)

  Fold the whisked egg whites through the brownie batter

• 12)

  Turn out into baking dish and level with a spatula

• 13)

  Put in oven for 25-30 minutes

• 14)

  Pull out of oven and allow to rest/cool for 15 minutes minimum

• 15)

  Dust with cacao over the top then cut into pieces