Sweet Potato Chocolate Chip Cookies

5 from 1 vote

Prep Time10

Cook Time12

Total Time22

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings: cookies

Calories:

2 cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground cloves
2 large eggs
1 cup brown sugar, packed
½ cup vegetable oil or applesauce
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup sweet potato puree, canned or 1 medium sweet potato, roasted, skin discarded, and mashed
1 cup chocolate chips, plus more for topping the cookies

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper and set them aside.
In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and cloves. Set aside.
In another medium-sized bowl (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), whisk together the eggs an brown sugar until they are thick and pale. Whisk in the oil/applesauce and vanilla extract. Fold in the mashed sweet potato.
All at once, add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients. Fold together with a spatula (or the stand mixer) until no bits of flour remain. Fold in the chocolate chips.
Using a cookie scoop, or by the heaping tablespoonful, drop the dough onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving about 2 inches between cookies. Top the dough with additional chocolate chips.
Bake 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool on the cookie sheet for about 10 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.