Double layer sweet potato cake with coconut pecan filling and maple cream cheese frosting. Spiced sweet potato cake layers sandwiched around a brown sugar, toasted coconut filling, and covered with a tangy cream cheese frosting. This cake is very similar in taste and appearance to carrot cake. But unlike carrot cake, the sweet potatoes are […]
Sweet Potato Dinner Rolls
Soft and buttery pull-apart sweet potato dinner rolls. Lightly sweet, fluffy, and tender, these rolls are perfect for a warm bowl of soup or a family feast. This is probably the simplest of the sweet potato recipes I’m posting in this series. It has minimal ingredients, can easily be scaled up or down, and is […]
Sweet Potato Ravioli
Goat cheese filled sweet potato pasta with crispy pancetta, pickled apples, candied pumpkin seeds, sautéed spinach, and sage brown butter. This dish has a myriad of fall flavors with its sweet potato pasta, creamy goat cheese, salty pancetta, sweet-tart apples, crunchy pumpkin seed, and earthy brown butter sauce. There are five recipes to create this […]
Roasted Sweet Potatoes
Roasted sweet potatoes. They can be a simple side or a base for other tasty recipes. My next four posts will be recipes that use roasted sweet potato puree as their base. You can follow the recipe below or use potato leftovers. If using leftovers, the potato should be as dry as possible. Excess moisture […]
Coconut Caramel Bars
Macadamia nut shortbread, coconut caramel, toasted coconut, and dark chocolate. If you like Samoa girl scout cookies, you are going to love these coconut caramel bars. Their toasted mac-nut shortbread, coconut milk caramel, and dark chocolate conjure a bit of nostalgia that you can enjoy anytime! Pre-cutting the shortbread isn’t necessary. But because of the […]
Plumcot Sangria
Sweet-tart plumcot, fresh orange, and red wine sangria. This sangria recipe blends a fruity red wine with ripe plumcots, navel oranges, a splash of vodka, and a touch of brown sugar. Plumcots, pluots, apriums, or apriplums are fruits produced from the cross-breeding of plum and apricot trees. Because of many different species of plums and […]