Spiced Sweet Potato Cookies

⏱ 172 mins 🍽 Serves 24 🌶 american 🏷 Dessert

These soft, spiced cookies offer a seasonal twist by using mashed sweet potato in the dough. Flavoured with molasses, brown sugar, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves, they have a wonderfully cosy and autumnal taste. The recipe yields about two dozen cookies, which are ideal for sharing. They require some chilling time before baking to ensure the perfect texture.

Spiced Sweet Potato Cookies

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups plus 4 tablespoons all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
  • 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 8 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup light brown sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon blackstrap molasses
  • 1/2 cup mashed sweet potato (see note)

Method

  1. Whisk the flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves together in a medium bowl, then set this mixture aside.
  2. Using a stand mixer with a paddle, cream the butter, sugar and light brown sugar until fluffy, which takes about 3 minutes. Beat in the egg, vanilla and molasses. Add the sweet potato puree and mix well. Incorporate the dry ingredients just until combined. Wrap the soft dough and chill it for 1-2 hours.
  3. Position your oven racks in the upper and lower middle spots and heat the oven to 350°F (180°C). Prepare two baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper.
  4. Place rounded tablespoons of the dough onto your prepared sheets. Bake for about 12 minutes, until the edges are browned and darkened. Allow them to cool for 5 minutes before moving to a wire rack. Store fully cooled cookies in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

Nutrition (per serving)

Sodium105000 mg

Recipe details

CategoryDessert
Cuisineamerican
AuthorCarrie Vasios Mullins