Best Sweet Potato Cookies Recipes

SWEET POTATO COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine sugar and butter or margarine. Blend in egg, honey, and sweet potato.
• Sift together flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt, and cinnamon. Blend in butter mixture and milk.
• Drop from a teaspoon 2 inches apart onto greased cookie sheets. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until brown.

SWEET POTATO PIE COOKIES WITH ORANGE GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and adjust racks to the middle position. Line 2 cookie sheets with parchment paper.
• In a medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg, and salt.
• Using a hand held mixer cream together the butter, granulated sugar and the brown sugar until light and fluffy and the volume has increased. Add the egg and the vanilla and mix until incorporated. Stir in the sweet potato puree and blend until smooth. Beat in the dry ingredients in increments and combine well. Stir in the pecans.
• Drop by heaping tablespoons onto the prepared cookie sheets, leaving about 2 inches of space between each cookie. Bake until the cookies are lightly golden around the edges and they spring back from the touch, about 18 minutes. Let cool completely on the cookie sheets before glazing.
• For the glaze:
• Combine the confectioners' sugar, orange juice, and vanilla in a small bowl and stir until smooth. Drizzle over the cookies and let harden for 1 hour before serving.
• Cook's Note: If you need to thin the glaze, add more orange juice. If you need to thicken it, add more confectioners' sugar.

SWEET POTATO SPICE COOKIES

Steps:

• 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.

SWEET POTATO COOKIES II

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt into a bowl, and set aside.
• In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Stir in the lemon zest, honey, nutmeg and egg until well blended, then mix in the sweet potato. Stir in the flour using a large spoon until just blended in. Form tablespoons of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased baking sheets about 2 inches apart.
• Bake for 7 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the edges are starting to brown lightly. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for about 5 minutes before removing to wire racks to cool completely.

SWEET POTATO CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 degrees F.
• Cream together sweet potato, butter, eggs, sugars and extracts.
• In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
• Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sweet potato mixture and beat until blended.
• Fold in the chocolate chips and nuts, if using.
• Drop by the teaspoonful onto ungreased baking sheets and bake at 300 degrees for about 25 minutes, until firm in the middle.

SWEET POTATO "COOKIES"

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
• Combine sunflower seed oil, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1 teaspoon salt, coriander, and cumin in a bowl; add sweet potatoes and toss to coat. Arrange sweet potatoes on a baking sheet and top with brown sugar, remaining 1 teaspoon cinnamon, and remaining 1 teaspoon salt.
• Bake in the preheated oven until sweet potatoes are crisp around the edges, about 20 minutes.

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.

SPICED SWEET POTATO SANDWICH COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. In a large bowl, beat butter at medium speed with an electric mixer until creamy.
• 2. Gradually add sugar, beating until smooth.
• 3. Beat in vanilla and sweet potato.
• 4. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg, pumpkin pie spice, cardamom, and cayenne.
• 5. Gradually add flour mixture to butter mixture.
• 6. Beating at low speed until combined.
• 7. Divide dough in half; flatten each into a disk.
• 8. Roll each disk to ¼-inch thickness between 2 sheets of wax paper. Refrigerate until firm, about 20 minutes.
• 9. Preheat oven to 350°. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
• 10. Working with one portion of dough at a time, remove top piece of wax paper; cut with a 2-inch round cutter.
• 11. Place cookies 1 inch apart on prepared baking sheets.
• 12. Bake until edges are golden, 12 to 14 minutes. Cool on baking sheets 1 minute.
• 13. Transfer to wire racks and cool completely.
• 14. CARAMEL CREAM FILLING - MAKES ABOUT 2¾ CUPS
• 15. In the work bowl of a food processor combine sugar, salt, cream, butter, and ice cream topping.
• 16. Process until thickened slightly.
• 17. Will look clumpy before creamy.
• 18. Transfer mixture to the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Beat until light and fluffy, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides of bowl, about 15 minutes. Do not overmix.
• 19. Transfer filling to a pastry bag fitted with a large round or star tip. Pipe about 2-3 teaspoons Caramel Cream Filling onto half of cookies.
• 20. Top with remaining cookies. Serve immediately.
• 21. Chef's Note: While these cookies can be baked up to 1 day in advance, do not fill them until ready to serve. (You can also refrigerate half the cookies that have the cream filling for about 10 minutes to firm before placing the top cookie on.)

PANNELET COOKIES WITH SWEET POTATO AND COCONUT

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, whisk the yam, toasted coconut, sugar, egg whites, salt, and lemon zest together.
• In a food processor, pulse the almonds to an uneven meal ranging in texture from very fine (mostly) to finely chopped. Stir the almonds into the batter. The dough will be very soft and sticky. Chill for at least 1 hour and up to 2 days to allow the coconut to absorb moisture from the yams.
• Preheat the oven to 325°F. Position racks in the upper and lower thirds of the oven. Scoop level tablespoons of the soft dough and roll into balls about 1 1/4 inches. Roll the balls in sugar (or, if using turbinado sugar roll only the top half of each ball in sugar to avoid oversweetening). Place 1 1/2 inches apart on the lined or greased cookie sheets.
• Bake for 18 to 24 minutes, until the cookies are slightly crusty on the surface (though still very tender and moist inside) and deep golden brown on the bottom. Rotate the pans from top to bottom and from front to back halfway through the baking time to ensure even baking. For lined pans, set the pans or just the liners on racks to cool; for unlined pans, use a metal spatula to transfer the cookies to racks. Cool the cookies completely before storing. May be kept in an airtight container for up to 4 or 5 days.
• Variations
• Cardamom Pannelets: Omit the lemon zest. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cardamom, 2 teaspoons grated orange zest, and 2 teaspoons orange flower water to the yam mixture.
• Masala Pannelets: A little Spanish/Asian fusion cookie and very good. Omit the lemon zest. Add 2 teaspoons garam masala to the yam mixture. Roll in plain sugar or cinnamon sugar.

SWEET POTATO LOW-FAT HIGH FIBRE COOKIES

Steps:

• Take ¼ of a sweet potato, strip the skin off, and mash it down on a plate. Toss the sweet potato in a bowl, and poor half of 1/3 a cup of water inside the bowl. Mix the water with the sweet potato. Then, add the cinnamon and splenda in, and mix. Then, put 1-cup of oatmeal in, mix, and add another half of 1/3 a cup of water, and mix well. You can add more water if needed, but be very careful not to make the mixture to soft.
• After this, pull out a cookie pan, spray it with Pam, make cookies with the batter using your hand, and place them on the pan. It should come out to about 8 cookies.
• Finally, place the pan in the oven for 20 minutes, at 350 degrees. Take the pan out, set the cookies on a plate, let it cool, and eat!
• Enjoy!
• It tastes pretty good, and is a great switch up from ordinary oatmeal. Also, its very portable, so good to take on trips. The only other thing you would need is some protein.

SWEET POTATO COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375.
• In large mixing bowl, use mixing spoon or electric mixer to mix butter and brown sugar until smooth. Add eggs, mashed sweet potatoes, and vanilla; mix well.
• Add flour, baking powder, and cinnamon, a little at a time, while mixing. Continue mixing until well blended, about 3 minutes. Add coconut and mix well.
• Spoon tablespoonfuls of batter onto lightly greased or nonstick cookie sheet, about 1 1/2 inches apart, and bake in oven for about 10 minutes, or until browned. Continue baking in batches.
• Serve cookies as a sweet snack with honey and butter to spread on cookies.

SWEET POTATO PIE COOKIES

Steps:

• For the filling: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Prick the sweet potato in several places and place it on a baking sheet. Bake until very tender, 45 to 50 minutes. Let cool. Scrape the flesh into a bowl and mash until smooth. Measure out 1 cup purée; reserve the remaining purée for another use.
• Place the 1 cup sweet potato purée in a medium bowl. Add the brown sugar, granulated sugar, egg, cream, vanilla, cinnamon and nutmeg and whisk until smooth. Set aside.
• Meanwhile, for the crust: Spray a 24-cup mini-muffin tin with cooking spray. Stir together the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt in a medium bowl. Combine the granulated sugar and butter in a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on high until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add the egg and vanilla. Beat until smooth. Add the dry ingredients and beat on low just until combined to form a smooth dough.
• Roll the dough into 24 (1-tablespoon size) balls. Press a ball into each muffin cup, covering the sides and bottoms to make cookie crusts. Refrigerate to firm up the crusts, about 30 minutes.
• While the crusts chill, make the crumble topping: Toss the flour, pecans, brown sugar, granulated sugar, cinnamon, salt and nutmeg together in a bowl. Drizzle with the melted butter and toss well with a fork until the mixture clumps together with some crumbs and some larger clumps. Spread on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake at 350 degrees F until golden and crisp, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool.
• Pour the filling into the chilled cookie crusts and bake at 350 degrees F until the crusts are golden and the filling is set, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Let the cookies sit in the pan until cool enough to handle, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from the pan and place on a wire rack. Press the cooled crumble topping onto the cookies and let cool before serving.

MBATATA (SWEET POTATO) COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sweet potatoes, milk, and melted butter and beat well. Sift and stir in the remaining ingredients. Drop by spoonfulls onto greased cookie sheet and bake 15 minutes.
• Or chill 1-2 hour then turn onto a floured board, knead lightly and roll out 1/2 an inch thick. Cut with a cookie cutter. Place cookies on a greased baking sheet, and bake for 15 minutes. Sprinkle some cinnamon/sugar mixture on top.

SWEET POTATO CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees
• 2. In a large bowl, cream together the cooked sweet potato, butter,eggs, sugars and extracts.
• 3. In a separate bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and cinnamon.
• 4. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the sweet potato mixture and beat until blended.
• 5. Fold in the chocolate chips and walnuts.
• 6. Drop by teaspoon onto ungreesed cookie sheet and bake at 300 degrees for about 25 mins. or until firm in the middle.

BROWN ANGEL ICED SWEET POTATO COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• For the cookies: In a medium mixing bowl, sift together the flour, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and set aside. Whisk together, with an electric mixer, the butter and sugar. Add the egg, molasses, butter extract, sweet potato and orange zest. Carefully fold dry ingredients into butter-sugar mixture with a rubber spatula. Stir in the pecans, if using. Drop spoonfuls of dough onto parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Decorate with cream cheese icing.
• For the cream cheese icing: In a large mixing bowl, using an electric mixer, blend cream cheese, sugar, and butter on low speed until incorporated. Increase the speed to high, and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the maple or vanilla extract, and mix on high speed until incorporated. Pipe the cream cheese frosting on cookies in any desired pattern with a piping bag or a plastic baggie with a hole cut at the corner. You can also warm the frosting in a microwave for a few seconds until smooth and drizzle the frosting onto the cookies.

SWEET POTATO PIE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl, sift together the flour, nutmeg, baking powder, baking soda, and salt, and set aside.
• Whisk together, with an electric mixer, the butter and sugar.
• Add the egg, vanilla extract and sweet potato.
• Fold the dry ingredients into butter-sugar mixture.
• Drop spoonfuls of dough onto parchment-lined cookie sheet. Bake at 400 degrees for 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown.
• Transfer to a wire rack to cool.

SWEET POTATO-PECAN COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• In a large mixing bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and nutmeg; set aside.
• In a seperate bowl, cream together the butter and sugar.
• Beat in the egg, sweet potato, vanilla and orange zest.
• Beat mixture into dry ingredients.
• Stir in the pecans.
• Lightly butter or spray with Pam 3 cookie sheets.
• Drop batter by teasponfulls onto sheets, leaving 1 1/2-inch space between each batter drop.
• Bake for 12-15 minutes or until cookies are browned.
• Cool on wire racks and store in an airtight container.
• If desired, you can make a glaze by mixing together 1 cup confectioners sugar and 2 tablespoons orange juice.
• Spread glaze over warm cookies.

SWEET POTATO HOLIDAY COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, baking soda, nutmeg, allspice, ginger, and salt into a bowl.
• Beat butter, white sugar, and brown sugar in a bowl until smooth and creamy. Mix in honey, egg, and lemon zest until well blended. Fold in sweet potato. Stir in flour mixture with a large spoon until dough is just blended.
• Shape tablespoonfuls of dough into balls and place 2 inches apart on ungreased baking sheets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until edges start to brown, about 8 minutes. Cool on the baking sheets for 5 minutes; transfer to wire racks to cool completely, about 10 minutes.

SWEET AND SALTY POTATO CHIP TOFFEE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. preheat oven to 325.
• 2. mix the flour and baking soda in a bowl and set aside.
• 3. with electric mixer or stand mixer with paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugars together.
• 4. add the egg, egg yolk and vanilla and mix well.
• 5. gradually add the flour mixture and stir until a dough forms (may take a couple minutes of stirring).
• 6. fold in the potato chips, chocolate chips and toffee. do not over mix the dough at any point in the process.
• 7. chill dough for at least 30 minutes or up to 5 days covered in the refrigerator.
• 8. drop by tablespoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheet. press a few more add ins onto the top for decoration.
• 9. bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges are slightly browned.
• 10. the centers should appear very soft and puffy. let cool completely.
• 11. make sure to keep dough cold at all times while the batches are baking.

SWEET POTATO COOKIES

Steps:

• Boil, drain, and mash the sweet potato. You should have about 2 cups.
• Preheat oven to 350°F.
• In a large bowl, mash the banana.
• Cream margarine and sugar with the banana.
• Beat eggs, add to creamed mixture, and stir well.
• Stir in sweet potato and vanilla.
• Combine dry ingredients, and add to sweet potato mixture.
• Drop onto greased cookie sheet.
• Bake 12-15 minutes, until lightly browned.