Sprout's Delightful Dessert

Supplies

• Cutting board and knife
• 2-quart pot
• 9 x 11 cake pan sprayed with cooking spray

Ingredients

• 3 lbs. sweet potatoes peeled and cooked until soft
• ¼ cup brown sugar, packed
• ¼ cup orange juice
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 Tbsp. butter or trans fat free margarine, melted
• 1 cup graham crackers crushed into crumbs
• Cooking spray

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350º.
   
    
2. Mash potatoes until smooth.
   
    
3. Add butter, brown sugar, orange juice, and cinnamon and mix until blended.
   
    
4. Spread out in cake pan.
   
    
5. Sprinkle graham cracker crumbs over top.
   
    
6. Place in oven for 30 minutes or until bubbling.
   
    
7. Let cool slightly before serving.
   
    

Note: This is one for parents to take the lead. Kids can help with mixing ingredients into potatoes prior to baking, but only if the potatoes have cooled.

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