Sweetpotato Pie PopsSweetpotato Pie Pops

January is National Sweet Potato Month!

Photo courtesy North Carolina SweetPotato Commission
Recipe Provided By
  • North Carolina SweetPotato Commission
Servings
12

January is National Sweet Potato Month!

This recipe from the North Carolina Sweetpotato Commission blends sweet potatoes with warm spices sandwiched between graham cracker crumbs combine for an easy, freezer dessert that’s budget friendly.

Ingredients

2 ea. large sweet potatoes
1 box (or 3½ oz vanilla instant pudding)
1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
½ cup milk
10 ea. whole graham crackers
12 three-inch popsicle sticks

Steps

  1. Cook sweetpotatoes until they’re easily mashed. Either bake them in the oven at 425°F for ome hour until soft, or microwave them in two-minute increments until soft.

  2. Once the potatoes are cooked thoroughly, remove the skins and place them in a mixing bowl. Mash them with a fork until they’re smooth but still have some texture.

  3. Measure out 2 cups of the mashed sweetpotatoes to use for the recipe. Reserve the rest for a later time.

  4. In a separate mixing bowl, pour in pudding mix and pumpkin pie spice.

  5. Whisk in the milk until pudding mix is dissolved.

  6. Using a spatula, slowly fold in the pudding to the mashed sweetpotatoes until everything is well combined.

  7. Crush the graham crackers in a food processor. You can also place them in a sealed zip lock bag and use a rolling pin to roll back and forth until crumbs form. This should yield about 2 cups of graham cracker crumbs.

  8. Cut a ¼-inch slit into 12 paper cupcake liners horizontally.

  9. Spoon in 1 T of graham cracker crumbs into each liner.

  10. Spoon 2 T of the sweet potato pie filling on top of the graham cracker crumbs.

  11. Wet the back of a spoon with water and press down the sweet potato filling to evenly cover the graham cracker crumbs. Repeat to all 12 pops.

  12. Top the pops with a final 1 T of graham cracker crumbs.

  13. Using your fingers, press down firmly to make sure the graham cracker crumbs stick to the sweet potato pie filling. Repeat to all 12 pops.

  14. Gently stick the popsicle sticks in through the horizontal slit into the sweet potato pie pop.

  15. Place popsicles flat on a plate before freezing for at least two hours.

  16. Remove paper liners before enjoying your sweet potato pie pops!

About the Author

North Carolina SweetPotato Commission

The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission Inc. is a nonprofit corporation made up of over 400 sweetpotato growers along with the packers, processors and business associates that support them. The sole purpose of the commission is to increase sweetpotato consumption through education, promotional activities, research and honorable horticultural practices among its producers. Thanks to the six sweetpotato farmers that chartered the commission in 1961, the commission has supported its growers and maintained North Carolina as the No. 1 sweetpotato producing state in the United States since 1971. For more industry stats, please visit our Industry section.

The North Carolina SweetPotato Commission is managed by the Board of Directors, which is elected by the members of the commission each January at the Annual Meeting. These twelve directors, who serve a rotating three-year term, are growers, packer-shippers or processors who are actively involved within the sweetpotato industry. The Board is responsible for:

  • Conducting the business of the North Carolina SweetPotato Commission

  • Employing the Executive Director

  • Carrying out the referenda

  • Enforcing the observance by its members of all provisions of the Charter and By-Law

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