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Amazingly Delicious Desserts with Sweet Potatoes + Sweet Potato Cookie Recipe
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We’re big fans of desserts with sweet potatoes over here. And to get this round up started, we’re sharing our favorite sweeet potato cookie recipe! These sweet potato cookies are best as an after school snack or Saturday afternoon baking project. They keep at room temperature for several days and you can add them to school lunches. If you are not into all that, then just whip them up for yourself and scarf them down in an day or two at your leisure.
These are the perfect cookies to make in fall in winter and have a “pumpkin spice” vibe. Adding pecans and raisins to them makes the cookies feel like a healthy and responsible choice while they taste like a total treat.
If you want to be extra, you can make your own sweet potato puree. It really doesn’t take much time at all, and it adds to the flavor. But of course, canned will also do.
A Word About Sweet Potatoes from California
Sweet potatoes may tantalize your taste buds, but how well do you understand them? There are some myths surrounding this root vegetable. First, it’s essential to note that a sweet potato is NOT the same as a yam. It also differs from its standard potato counterparts, which are tubers. And get this: the word is actually sweetpotato. According to California Sweetpotatoes, “sweetpotato” is correct because their product is not, in fact, a sweet potato – it’s an entirely different vegetable.
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Sweet Potato Cookies
Equipment
- Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 1 cup mashed sweet potato
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 1 cup raisins
Instructions
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
- Add in the egg, sweet potato puree and vanilla.
- Combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, salt and allspice and add to creamed butter mixture.
- Fold in pecans and raisins.
- Use a small mechanical cookie scoop to form balls. Place them about 1 in. apart on parchment lined baking sheets.
- Bake at 375° until edges begin to brown, for 10-12 minutes.
- Cool for 1 minute before removing to wire racks.
- Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week.
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Even More Sweet Potato Desserts to Love
Easy Sweet Potato Pie
With a crisp crust and silky smooth filling spiced with cinnamon and nutmeg, this sweet potato pie from Beyond Sweeet and Savory is so delicious and light, your guests will be coming back for more.
Sweet Potato Sour Cream Cake
If you love sweet potatoes you will love this Sweet Potato Sour Cream Cake from Bakes by Brown Sugar. Cooked sweet potatoes along with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger to create an incredibly flavored cake. Sour cream helps create a tender crumb and the bourbon adds a hint of sweetness.
Sweet Potato Marshmallow Bars
These Sweet Potato Marshmallow Bars from Britney Breaks Bread are one of those recipes where you take your first bite and SWOON. The bars are soft and airy.
Sweet Potato Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This sweet potato pound cake from Britney Breaks Bread is moist, perfectly spiced, and full of warm cinnamon flavors. Topped with a rich cream cheese frosting – so good! It’s a delicious blend of sweet potato puree with hints of vanilla, nutmeg, and ginger topped with a luscious cream cheese frosting.
Sweetpotato Oatmeal Cookies
Dig into these delicious Sweetpotato Oatmeal Cookies from our friends at California Sweetpotatoes. They’re jam-packed with goodies including nuts, raisins, and chocolate chips, plus of course, good-for-you sweetpotatoes!
Sweet Potato Ice Cream Recipe
This decadent, perfectly spiced and deliciously creamy Sweet Potato Ice Cream from Grandbaby Cakes tastes almost like the pie! It is taken over the top when stuffed with toasted marshmallows making it the perfect fall (or anytime) dessert.
Sweetpotato Gingerbread Cookies
These cookies from our friends at California Sweeetpotatoes are sweet-but-not-too-sweet, jam-packed with baking spices, and altogether irresistible. Sweetpotato puree in the dough adds fiber, nutrients, and helps cut down on the butter—but even better, it helps keep the cookies deliciously tender for days and days.