Sweet Potato Spice Cookies Recipe

Sweet Potato Spice Cookies Recipe Sweet Potato Spice Cookies Recipe photo by Taste of Home Rating 5

Shredded sweet potatoes, butterscotch chips, pecans, coconut and spices are creatively combined in a one-of-a-kind cookie that always brings rave reviews. —Ruth Shaffer, Elizabethville, Pennsylvania

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Sweet Potato Spice Cookies Recipe
  • Prep: 15 min. Bake: 15 min./batch
  • Yield: 42 Servings
15 15 30

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup butter, softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup finely shredded uncooked sweet potato
  • 3 tablespoons orange juice concentrate
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 1-1/4 cups quick-cooking oats
  • 1 cup butterscotch chips
  • 1 cup flaked coconut
  • 1 cup chopped pecans

Directions

  • In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, sweet potato and orange juice concentrate. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in the remaining ingredients.
  • Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 2 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 14-16 minutes or until firm. Remove to wire racks to cool. Yield: 7 dozen.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 each) equals 152 calories, 8 g fat (4 g saturated fat), 14 mg cholesterol, 99 mg sodium, 19 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Originally published as Sweet Potato Spice Cookies in Best of Country Cookies , p35

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Reviewed on Jul. 17, 2012 by mouse1953

this is a keeper, everyone asks for the recipe, cannot keep them on the platter!!

Reviewed on Dec. 16, 2010 by jessicarasmussen

Have made this recipe several times and have had rave reviews. I make w whole wheat pastry flour instead of white and add extra butterscotch chips. Fabulous!!!!!!! Super buttery and rich.

Reviewed on Dec. 04, 2010 by jonco

I tasted this cookie when I went to the "Taste of Home" store in Wi. It was fantastic. I make it all the time and family and friends cannot believe that there is sweet potato in the cookie.

Reviewed on Feb. 13, 2010 by joamccab

My college age daughter loves extra healthy food- whereas I gravitate towards extra gooey- yummy goodness. So when we were choosing what we would bake when she was home from school over the holidays. She had this one in her list. It was the favorite at every gathering- everyone wanted to tast the cookie that had sweet potatoes in it. It got high reviews from the extra gooey goodness crowd as well as the others :)

 
 

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