sweet potatoes ...on crack

for thanksgiving this year i wanted to replace my usual pureed butternut squash. so i bounced around all the food blogs i usually creep on, and got my inspiration for these. basically... a monkey could make these. as long as that monkey has a sweet tooth.
what they are basically.... is a twice baked sweet potato topped with a pecan cookie batter.
hoe
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chit.

simple as all hell:


ingredients:
sweet potatoes: i did 6... (you do as many as you plan on eating,,, duh)
butter (1 1/2 sticks for six so you figure that out) room temperature.
brown sugar (a GOOD solid handful. small hands? do one and a half)
flour (i used a 1 cup)
cinnamon ( dump in as much as you want)
i shook in a liiiiiiiiitle ground ginger
i sprinkled in a smidge of ground cloves
i squeezed in a little maple syrup
i added a splash of vanilla
salt/ pepper (just because its sweet doesnt mean it needs this stuff... to taste)
mini marshmallows (a good handful)
toasted pecans (i used about a cup) all chopped the hell up.

how to make the best sweet potatoes you ever ever had:

- turn on your oven to *375
- poke your sweet potatoes after washing the dirt off them with a fork. dont wash them with the fork... wash them first, then poke them. just so were clear.
- plop your potatos on a foil covered sheet tray.
- on a different sheet tray toast your pecans if theyre not toasted yet. 7 minutes in the oven should be good. dont over do it, burt pecans really blow.
- in your mixer with the paddle, throw in the butter. overhand like CC Sabathia.
-add the spices , and the syrup, and the vanilla.
- turn on mixer.
- mix,, not too long.
- slowly add flour. i added enough flour to make this butter concoction look like cookie dough.
- throw in your marshmallows. i mixed them by hand, because, honestly, i felt bad for them. the mixer versus the marshmallows wasnt a fair fight.
- after an hour to an hour and a half, remove your potatoes.
let them cool a little bit.. 20 minutes? ok!
- cut a slice down the length of them...
- push them, forcing that slit open.
- pile a mound of the marshmallowey stuff on top .... *see above*
*** you can let them chill here if youre planning ahead... refrigerate them if you gotta*
- throw them back in the oven for about 20 minutes.
- take them out and go silly.