You'll love this easy sweet potato cookies recipe. These cookies are airy and fluffy, the kind that melts in your mouth. They are very easy to make especially if you are baking with kids, the best part is you can make it from leftover sweet potato.
These cookies are reminiscent of sweet potato cake in the best way possible. They are incredibly fluffy, thick and so tasty. Go very well with any kind of frosting or sauce.
If you need more baking with kids sort of cookies, try these super cute cinnamon cookies.
Sweet Potato Cookies
When it starts getting cold here in Colorado I usually head to the store to buy sweet potatoes, making them in the oven brings back the sweet memories of Egypt, but I usually end up with one or more abandoned ones in the fridge.
If this is your case too, stick them in the freezer and when you are ready, give them a new life with these incredibly delicious and fluffy cookies.
For this recipe you will need:
Sweet potato, butter, sugar, baking powder, eggs, vanilla powder and semolina.
Do you get excited when temperatures drop in your area for soups, hot drinks and probably sweet potato?. In the Middle East, we usually think sweet potato only in winter days, when it is cold and gloomy. Street vendors go around selling grilled ones that taste so so good caramelized and so hot. For me, nothing beats sticky caramelized hot sweet potato in cold winter nights.
How do you get caramelized baked sweet potatoes?
Nothing is better than hot caramelized baked sweet potatoes. To do so, wash the sweet potato, slit it lengthwise and place on a pan then turn heat on to 400F. 30-40 minutes later ( depending on the size of the sweet potato you have) you'll end up with great , soft caramelized and hot sweet potato.
Are canned sweet potatoes as good as fresh?
Well, I like the fresh better. It has more texture and is naturally sweet. Some people like canned as it is smoother and sweeter. So bottom line is, it depends completely on your preference.
How do I make sweet potato cookies?
This is a very forgiving recipe, so easy to make and does not even need a mixer. Also it is not too sweet, until of course you add your frosting.
- If you are using fresh sweet potato you'll need to mash them with a fork then heat in a microwave safe bowl.
- Add unsalted butter, cubed. The heat from the sweet potato will melt the butter so no need to melt.
- Add sugar and combine well.
- Add the rest of the ingredients then mix with a wooden spoon until well combined.
- You'll get a sticky dough so if you are new to baking you might find this uncomfortable, hence you can refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Scoop the dough and form small balls, stuff with nuts if you would like to.
- Brush with egg white and bake until lightly browned at the bottom.
I can brag day and night about the taste of these cookies, everybody in my home loved these, and I mean it EVERYBODY, but I was smart enough to top it with their favorite toppings. Usually you see these drizzled in the old boring simple syrup, but this time I drizzled them with different sauces so choose what's best for your family. I've caramel lovers, white chocolate lovers, frosting lovers and brownie lovers in my home :), so I've made all these sauces and ribboned - if this is a word- my cookies with them, they were gone super fast.
These cookies are usually made with mashed potatoes but I've decided to get more adventurous and make them with sweet potatoes instead, they turned out even better than the original potato ones.
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I love this baking sheets from Nordic Ware, they are very sturdy and do not bend at high temperatures.
Other cookies on the blog
- Butter cookies sandwiches.
- Pistachio and sesame cookies.
- Anise Biscotti.
- Traditional Egyptian cookies ( made the old way).
- Chewy ginger molasses cookies.
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Fluffy sweet potato cookies
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Sweet potato cookies
Ingredients
- 1 sweet potato about 0.5 lb, cooked,peeled and mashed.
- 3 Tbs granulated sugar.
- 3 Tbs semolina.
- 10 Tbs AP flour.
- 1/4 c butter room temperature.
- 1 Tbs baking powder.
- 2 eggs . separate one of them into yolk and white
- A pinch of vanilla powder.
Optional spices
- Cinnamon powder ground cloves, ground ginger.
- Optional filling: nuts any kind.
- For drizzling: Simple syrup caramel sauce, white chocolate sauce, cheese cream frosting.....
Instructions
- Heat up the mashed sweet potato in your microwave just enough to melt the butter when added to it.
- Add the butter and mix until it melts and be incorporated in the sweet potato.
- Add the sugar, semolina, one whole egg and one egg yolk, vanilla, flour, baking powder and your optional spices.
- Mix the ingredients until the flour disappears.
- Refrigerate for 30 minutes ,if it is hard for you to handle right away.
- Scoop up 2-3 Tbs and form into a ball, fill with nuts if you chose to.
- Top each one with a nut and arrange in a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
- Brush with the egg white you have and bake in a 350F pre heated oven until nicely browned from the bottom.
- Drizzle with your favorite syrup or sauce, or even dust with some confectioners sugar.
- Enjoy.
Thos turned out so tasty, not as perfectly looking as yours but the taste was amazing. Thank you fo such a wonderful recipe.
Nehal, I am happy to hear they worked well for you and came out tasty. Thanks for letting me know.
Very easy recipe. I used canned sweet potatoes. I added white chocolate chips and chopped pecans. People loved them I used a a 15 ounce can and drained the liquid off.
Catherine, thank you so much for trying this recipe out. I love love your addition of chocolate chips, I bet my kids will go crazy over those :).
Oh what a fun cookie, sweet potatoes! Never tried it but yeah totally works! I recently made a 50-50 pumpkin and sweet potato pie and it was great, so cookies for sure!
Sweet potato and pumpkin.. yum that sounds delicious Eve.May be try these cookies as well 50/50 I bet it will taste amazing.
Good to see this recipe return! Such a neat idea for cookies -- thanks.
Thank you John, it has been a favorite in this house ever since :).
This is the first time that I'm seeing cookies made with sweet potatoes! What a lovely surprise!