Raisin Sweet Potato Cookies Food

RAISIN SWEET POTATO COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, sweet potato and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, salt and allspice; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Fold in pecans and raisins., Drop by tablespoonfuls 1 in. apart onto ungreased 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.

SWEET POTATOES WITH BRANDY AND RAISINS

Steps:

• Pour brandy over raisins in a small bowl, cover, and allow to stand for 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Butter a 2-quart baking dish with the softened butter.
• Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet, and bake in preheated oven until tender, about 30 minutes. Remove and allow to cool until cool enough to handle, then peel the potatoes and slice them 1/2 inch thick. Arrange the potato slices in the prepared baking dish, and sprinkle with sugar and brandy-soaked raisins.
• Return the sweet potatoes to the oven, and bake 30 to 40 minutes until hot and bubbly.

SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE WITH WHITE RAISIN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Mix eggs, sugar, melted butter, raisins, milk, and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl. Add mashed sweet potatoes; stir to combine. Spread the sweet potato mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Mix brown sugar and flour together in a small bowl. Mash butter into the mixture with a fork until crumbly; add pecans and stir. Sprinkle the brown sugar mixture over the sweet potato mixture.
• Bake in preheated oven until golden brown, about 30 minutes.

SPICY MASHED SWEET POTATOES WITH RAISINS

Steps:

• peel the sweet potatoes and cut them into pieces.
• Boil in salted for about 15-20 minutes, until soft.
• Drain and mash with a fork.
• Add butter, salt and pepper, ginger and cinnamon, (and cayenne and/or brown sugar if desired) and beat well.
• Add the drained raisins.

RAISIN SWEET POTATO BREAD

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves. In another large bowl, combine the sweet potatoes, oil, eggs and vanilla; stir into the dry ingredients just until moistened. Fold in raisins. , Transfer to two greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Bake at 350° for 55-60 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pans to wire racks.

RUM RAISIN SWEET POTATO PIE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425.
• Combine all the ingredients except the raisins and rum and pie shell in a large mixing bowl.
• Mix on medium speed with an electric mixer until the texture is smooth.
• Fold in the raisins and rum, then pour into pie shell and bake for 10 minutes.
• Reduce the temperature to 350. Bake for an additional 45 minutes or until the filling is set. Cool on a wire rack.

SWEET POTATO & RAISIN MUFFINS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees.
• Coat the bottoms of 12 medium muffin cups with no-stick cooking spray.
• Add all the ingredients, EXCEPT the cinnamon-sugar, to a large mixing bowl; mix just until the flour is moistened. (COOK'S TIP: Do not over mix the batter or the muffins will be tough when baked.).
• Fill the muffin cups 2/3 full (batter should be lumpy).
• Sprinkle the cinnamon-sugar over batter in each muffin cup.
• Bake 18 - 20 minutes on rack in the center of oven. Immediately remove from pan and place on baker's wire rack to cool.