Oatmeal Sweet Potato Cookies
By Jackie Garvin
Prep Time
40 minutes, plus 2 hour chill time
Number of Servings
Makes approximately 6 dozen (2-inch cookies)
Recipe Source
Sweet Potato Love by Jackie Garvin ($24.99, Skyhorse Publishing, 2016)
Ingredients
- 2 cups self-rising flour
- 1 1⁄2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 1⁄2 tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 1⁄2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 3 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 1⁄2 cups raisins
- 1 medium-sized sweet potato, peeled and grated (about 2 cups)
Directions
- Stir together flour, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Set aside.
- Cream butter, sugars, eggs, and vanilla until smooth.
- Stir flour mixture into wet ingredients and mix with a large spoon until dough is wet. Stir in oatmeal, raisins, and grated sweet potato until well mixed. Cover bowl and chill for at least 2 hours.
- Shape heaping tablespoons of dough into balls. Place 2 inches apart on a cookie sheet lined with parchment, a baking mat, or sprayed with nonstick cooking spray.
- Bake at 350° for 12 minutes or until bottoms of cookies have begun to brown and tops are no longer glossy.
- Let cookies sit on cookie sheet for 2 minutes. Remove to a cooking rack and completely cool.
Nutrition Info
3 cookies: 271 Calories, 5 g Protein, 34 mg Cholesterol, 42 g Carbohydrates, 19 g Total sugars (13 g Added sugars), 3 g Fiber, 10 g Total fat (5 g sat), 138 mg Sodium, ★★★ Vitamin A, ★★ Vitamin B1 (thiamine), Phosphorus, ★ Folate, Iron, Magnesium
Contributor
Jackie Garvin
Jackie Garvin retired to focus on cooking, eating, digging in the dirt, and writing about it after a successful career as a registered nurse, corporate executive, and entrepreneur.
In 2011, she created her Southern food blog, Syrup and Biscuits, to chronicle wonderful food memories before they were forgotten. She is also the author of Sweet Potato Love: 60 Recipes for Every Season and Biscuits: Sweet and Savory Southern Recipes for the All-American Kitchen.
She lives in Valrico, Florida, with her husband and basset hound.
