Sweet Potato Pudding

Name: Sweet Potato Pudding
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: ½ cup chopped pecans; ¼ cup chopped crystallized ginger; 2½ cups baked sweet potatoes (about 3 medium potatoes), flesh scooped from the skin; 2½ cups baked sweet potatoes (about 3 medium potatoes), flesh scooped from the skin; ½ cup packed brown sugar; 4 large eggs; ⅓ cup milk; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted; 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract; 1 tablespoon cane syrup or dark corn syrup; 1 tablespoon cane syrup or dark corn syrup; 1 tablespoon light or dark rum; 1 tablespoon light or dark rum; ½ teaspoon table salt; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ½ teaspoon ground ginger

Preparation info

Serves
6 to 8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Smoke & Spice

By Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison

Published 2014

About

If you’ve ever had sweet potato pie, you won’t be surprised that the spuds also make a superb pudding, topped here with a praline crunch.

Ingredients

Praline

½ cup chopped pecans
¼ cup chopped crystallized ginger
¼

Americas
United States
Dessert
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Thanksgiving

Method

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 1½-quart baking dish.
In a small bowl, combine the pecans, ginger, brown sugar, and butter. Reserve the mixture.
With an electric mixer, beat together all the pudding ingredients until smooth and light. Pou