Rum Raisin Sweet Potatoes Recipes

SWEET POTATOES WITH RUM

Steps:

• Boil the whole, unpeeled, sweet potatoes until tender but not too soft-- it will take anywhere from 20 to 40 minutes depending on the thickness of your potatoes.
• Drain and, when cool enough to handle, peel and slice into 1/4-inch slices.
• Preheat oven to 350F degrees.
• Arrange the slices in an attractive overlapping pattern in a buttered shallow baking dish.
• Dot with butter pieces, then sprinkle with brown sugar and raisins, if using.
• Drizzle the rum over all.
• Bake in preheated oven, uncovered, until bubbly and glazed, about 30 minutes.

RUM-GLAZED SWEET POTATO CAKES

Steps:

• Stir together first 2 ingredients. Let stand 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, beat eggs and granulated sugar at high speed with an electric mixer 2 to 4 minutes or until thick and pale. Add oil and vanilla, beating at low speed just until blended. Add sweet potato puree, beating just until blended and stopping to scrape down sides as needed.
• Preheat oven to 350°. Sift together flour and next 5 ingredients; add to egg mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed just until blended after each addition. Drain raisins, reserving rum. Fold raisins into batter. Spoon batter into 3 lightly greased 12-cup Bundt brownie pans, filling each three-fourths full.
• Bake at 350° for 14 to 16 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans on lightly greased wire racks 5 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks.
• While cakes are baking, bring brown sugar and next 2 ingredients to a boil in a heavy saucepan over medium-high heat. Boil, stirring constantly, 3 minutes or until mixture begins to thicken to a syrup-like consistency. Remove from heat; stir in reserved rum.
• Pierce tops of cakes multiple times using a wooden pick. Dip top halves of cakes in glaze, and hold 1 to 2 seconds (to allow glaze to soak into cakes). Place, glazed sides up, on lightly greased racks. Sprinkle each cake with pecans.
• Note: To puree roasted sweet potatoes, peel potatoes as soon as they are slightly cooled. Press pulp through a wire-mesh strainer with the back of a spoon. You'll need to roast about 1 1/2 lb. potatoes for 2 cups puree.

SWEET POTATO RUM CAKE WITH BUTTER RUM FROSTING

Steps:

• Soak the raisins in rum for at least 30 minutes to plump them up.
• Meanwhile peel, dice and boil sweet potatoes until tender. Mash and let cool.
• Preheat oven to 350º, and prepare 13 X 9 baking pan with cooking spray and a little flour.
• Combine all of the cake ingredients (except raisins) in a large mixing bowl. Stir to combine. With an electric mixer, mix on medium speed for about 2 minutes. Fold in the raisin/rum mixture. Spread into the prepared baking pan and bake for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool the cake completely before frosting.
• To make the frosting, melt the butter in a large saucepan, and allow it to brown just lightly. Remove from the heat and add the remaining frosting ingredients. Beat until smooth and creamy. You can add a little additional rum, orange juice, or water to thin it if necessary, or add a little confectioners sugar if you need to thicken it. Spread over the cake and refrigerate overnight. Serve cold.

RUM AND SWEET POTATO CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F 175°C.
• Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• In a large bowl, mix the sweet potatoes and sugar. Stir in the eggs. Mix in the milk, vanilla extract, and a half cup of melted butter. Gradually stir in the rum until well blended.
• Transfer the mixture to the prepared baking dish.
• In a medium bowl, mix the brown sugar, pecans, flour and the remaining melted butter (1/3 cup). Sprinkle this mixture over the mashed sweet potato mixture.
• Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow to sit at least 10 minutes before serving.

RUM-BAKED SWEET POTATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°.
• Prick sweet potatoes with a fork and place them on a baking sheet; bake for about 1 hour or until tender when pierced with a fork.
• Remove from oven; when they are cool enough to handle, scoop out the flesh.
• In a bowl, mash the potatoes-it is ok if there are some lumps, the mixture does not have to be a fine puree.
• With a rasp grater or citrus zester, remove zest of both oranges; chop it and set aside.
• Juice the oranges, then stain the juice, pouring it into the potatoes.
• Add in half the zest, half the brown sugar, and half the rum.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Transfer mixture to a casserole dish; dot the top with butter; sprinkle the remaining brown sugar and rum over the top.
• Bake until heated through, about 30 minutes.
• Just before serving, scatter the remaining zest over the top.