Sweet Potato Pudding (step By Step 4 Kids)

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 (24 ounce) can cut yams in syrup, drained (2 cups mashed sweet potatoes)
• 3/8 cup butter, melted
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sweetened flaked coconut
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves

Recipe

• 1 check with a grownup, and wash your hands before you begin.
• 2 preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
• 3 open the can of sweet potatoes.
• 4 using a sieve or colander, drain out all the liquid.
• 5 pour the sweet potatoes into a large bowl.
• 6 mash the sweet potatoes with a potato masher or a fork.
• 7 melt the butter in a medium microwave-safe bowl.
• 8 do not overcook the butter!
• 9 microwave for 30 seconds at a time (as many times as needed) until the butter is melted.
• 10 then pour melted butter into mashed potatoes and stir it inches (be careful! the butter might be hot.).
• 11 add brown sugar to the potato mixture, and stir it inches.
• 12 crack eggs into a medium bowl, and beat them with a fork until smooth and yellow.
• 13 pour eggs into the potato mixture, and stir them inches.
• 14 add milk, sweetened coconut flakes, and spices to the potato mixture.
• 15 stir everything together until it is mixed. (note: if you don't have all the spices, don't worry. adding even one or two spices will make it tastier!).
• 16 pour the potato mixture into an oven-safe, glass, baking dish.
• 17 using oven mitts, place the potatoes into the oven.
• 18 bake uncovered for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.
• 19 clean up the kitchen while the wonderful aroma of baking sweet potato pudding fills your kitchen!
• 20 when the timer rings, your sweet potato pudding is done!
• 21 ask a grownup to use oven mitts to take the baking dish out of the oven.
• 22 set the dish someplace safe to cool.
• 23 make sure to turn off the oven.
• 24 enjoy your pudding warm (but not too hot!), or cold.