Strawberry Sweet Potato Scones

²² Now that you have purified yourselves by obeying the truth so that you have sincere love for each other, love one another deeply, from the heart. ²³ For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. ²⁴ For,

   “All people are like grass,
   and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
 ²⁵ but the word of the Lord endures forever.” I Peter 1

Ingredients:

1 egg

1/2 cup honey

1/3 cup olive oil

mashed flesh from 1 large cooked orange sweet potato

2 tsp vanilla

2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1 cup fresh diced strawberries

Directions:

1. beat together the egg, honey, oil, sweet potato, and vanilla

2. beat in the flour, baking powder, and salt

3. stir in the strawberries and drop by tablespoonfuls on a baking tray

4. bake for ~ 25 minutes at 350 degrees F

Sunflower Seed and Cranberry Sweet Potato Casserole

 ¹ Have mercy on me, O God,
   according to your unfailing love;
according to your great compassion
   blot out my transgressions.
² Wash away all my iniquity
   and cleanse me from my sin.

 ³ For I know my transgressions,
   and my sin is always before me.
⁴ Against you, you only, have I sinned
   and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you are proved right when you speak
   and justified when you judge.
⁵ Surely I was sinful at birth,
   sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
⁶ Surely you desire truth in the inner parts;
   you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.Ps 51

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked and mashed sweet potato

2 eggs

4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)

8 oz evaporated milk

2 tbsp butter

2 tbsp whole wheat flour

1/2 cup honey

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp salt

1/4 cup dried cranberries

1/4 cup sunflower seeds

Directions:

1. blend together all ingredients

2. pour into an olive oil-sprayed cake pan

3. bake for ~45 min at 350 degrees F

Sweet Potato Sunflower Seed Honey Biscuit

¹⁸ “But will God really dwell on earth with men? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built! ¹⁹ Yet give attention to your servant’s prayer and his plea for mercy, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is praying in your presence. ²⁰ May your eyes be open toward this temple day and night, this place of which you said you would put your Name there. May you hear the prayer your servant prays toward this place. ²¹ Hear the supplications of your servant and of your people Israel when they pray toward this place. Hear from heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.2 Chron 6


Ingredients:


1 egg
1 cup mashed sweet potato
1/2 cup honey
2 tsp vanilla
3 oz butter (3/4 stick)
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
1/4 cup sunflower seeds


Directions:
1. mix together the egg, honey, butter, sweet potato, and vanilla
2. stir in the rest of the ingredients
3. drop by heaping tbspfuls onto a foil-lined pan
4. bake for ~ 25 minutes @ 350 degrees F

Sweet Potato Walnut Cocoa Dessert

⁶ The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. ⁷ The LORD your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. ⁸ You will again obey the LORD and follow all his commands I am giving you today. ⁹ Then the LORD your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The LORD will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your fathers, ¹⁰ if you obey the LORD your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Deut 30


Ingredients:


Crust
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup honey
1 cups walnut flour (walnuts powdered in the blender)

2 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

Cocoa Layer

4 eggs

2 cups sweet potato pureed

1 cup honey

1 tsp vanilla

2 tbsp butter softened 

1/4 cup cocoa powder

Directions:

1. mix crust ingredients and pour onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan

2. mix cocoa layer ingredients and pour over crust

3. bake for ~ 45 minutes at 350 degrees F

Cocoa Sweet Potato Cream Squares

⁸ By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. ⁹ By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. ¹⁰ For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.

 ¹¹ By faith Abraham, even though he was past age—and Sarah herself was barren—was enabled to become a father because he considered him faithful who had made the promise. ¹² And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.

 ¹³ All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. ¹⁴ People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. ¹⁵ If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. ¹⁶ Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them. Hebrews 11

Ingredients:
3 eggs
2 cups mashed sweet potatoes (I used Oriental yellow sweet potatoes)
4 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)
2 tsp vanilla
1  cup evaporated cane juice (or other natural sweetener)
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda


Directions:
1. mix the eggs, potato, cheese, vanilla, and juice
2. stir in the cocoa powder, salt, and baking soda
3. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined tray
4. bake for ~30 minutes at 350 degrees F
5. cut into small squares

Sweet Potato Pecan Brazil Nut Oat Bars

 ³ His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. ⁴ Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

 ⁵ For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; ⁶ and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; ⁷ and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. ⁸ For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ But if anyone does not have them, he is nearsighted and blind, and has forgotten that he has been cleansed from his past sins.

 ¹⁰ Therefore, my brothers, be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, ¹¹ and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1

Ingredients:
1 cup pecan flour (pecans powdered in the blender)
1/2 cup Brazil Nut Flour (brazil nuts powdered in the blender)
19 oz pureed tofu (I used 1 box of Trader Joe's)
1.5 cups honey
1.5 cups oat flour (oats powdered in the blender)
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg
flesh from 1 large baked sweet potato (mashed)


Directions:
1. mix all ingredients in a bowl
2. spread onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan
3. bake for ~ 45-60 minutes 

Chocolate Sweet Potato Bars with Molasses Oat Crust

¹⁷ “Behold, I will create 
   new heavens and a new earth. 
The former things will not be remembered, 
   nor will they come to mind. 
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever 
   in what I will create, 
for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight 
   and its people a joy. 
¹⁹ I will rejoice over Jerusalem 
   and take delight in my people; 
the sound of weeping and of crying 
   will be heard in it no more.

 ²⁰ “Never again will there be in it
   an infant who lives but a few days,
   or an old man who does not live out his years;
he who dies at a hundred
   will be thought a mere youth;
he who fails to reach a hundred
   will be considered accursed.
²¹ They will build houses and dwell in them;
   they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²² No longer will they build houses and others live in them,
   or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,
   so will be the days of my people;
my chosen ones will long enjoy
   the works of their hands.
²³ They will not toil in vain
   or bear children doomed to misfortune;
for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,
   they and their descendants with them.
²⁴ Before they call I will answer;
   while they are still speaking I will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
   and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
   but dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
   on all my holy mountain,”
            says the LORD.Isaiah 65

Ingredients:


Crust:
2 eggs
1 cup honey
1/4 cup molasses
1.5 cup whole wheat flour
1.5 cups oats
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda


Chocolate Layer:
1 egg
2 oz butter (1/2 stick)
2 cups mashed sweet potato (I used Louisiana sweet potatoes which are yellow)

1 cup honey
1/2 cup cocoa powder


Directions:


1. for the crust, mix the egg, honey, and molasses
2. stir in the flour, oats, baking soda, and salt

3. spread crust batter onto an olive oil-sprayed foil-lined pan

4. mix together the chocolate layer ingredients and pour on top of the crust batter

 and spread level with a spoon
5. bake for ~30-40 minutes at 350 degrees F

Chinese Mooncake

 ¹⁴ Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
   love and faithfulness go before you.
¹⁵ Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you,
   who walk in the light of your presence, O LORD.
¹⁶ They rejoice in your name all day long;
   they exult in your righteousness.
¹⁷ For you are their glory and strength,
   and by your favor you exalt our horn.
¹⁸ Indeed, our shield belongs to the LORD,
   our king to the Holy One of Israel.Ps 89

Emily Noble gave me this idea to try making mooncakes.


Ingredients:


Dough:
2 eggs
1/3 cup honey
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tsp baking soda
~1.5 cups whole wheat flour (add more to achieve a soft rollable dough)

Filling:
mashed flesh from 2 large Oriental sweet potatoes (baked)

2 oz butter (1/2 stick)
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice

Egg Wash:
1 egg
2 tbsp honey


Directions:
1. mix the eggs, honey, and oil
2. knead in the bakind soda and flour (adding more if necessary) to achieve a soft rollable dough
3. blend together the filling ingredients (with an egg beater)
4. use a rolling pin to roll a small ball of dough into a small circle
5. put a heaping tablespoon (or so) of filling in the middle of the dough circle and fold up sides
6. take a very small ball of dough and roll out into a small circle that is large enough to cover the top of the filling; seal the sides of dough using your fingers
7. use a cup or round serving spoon (~2-3 inch diameter) as a mold: press down firmly on center of filled dough; repeat with remaining dough and filling
8. beat together egg wash ingredients and brush on top of cakes
9. bake for ~ 20 minutes at 350 degrees F

Purple Sweet Potato Pinwheels

   ³⁶ “No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. ³⁷ As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸ For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; ³⁹ and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.⁴⁰ Two men will be in the field; one will be taken and the other left. ⁴¹ Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.

   ⁴² “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. ⁴³ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. ⁴⁴ So you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him.

   ⁴⁵ “Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom the master has put in charge of the servants in his household to give them their food at the proper time? ⁴⁶ It will be good for that servant whose master finds him doing so when he returns. ⁴⁷ I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself, ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ ⁴⁹ and he then begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. ⁵⁰ The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. ⁵¹ He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matt 24

Ingredients:


Dough
1/2 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1.5 oz butter (1/3 stick)
1 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups whole wheat flour


Filling
1/2 cup mashed purple sweet potato
4 oz Neufchatel cheese softened (1/2 package)
.5 oz butter (1/6 stick)


Directions:
1. mix the honey, vanilla, and butter
2. stir in the baking soda, salt, and flour to achieve a rollable dough (add flour/milk as necessary)
3. mix the filling ingredients
4. using a rolling pin roll the dough into (a) large rectangle(s)
5. spread filling (desired amount) on the entire surface of the rectangle of dough 
6. roll up like a scroll and slice into 1/2 inch thick slices
7. spread on a foil-lined tray and bake for ~ 15 minutes at 350 degrees F

I ended up making 3 rectangles and dividing the filling into thirds (each third for 1 rectangle), but you can adjust the size of the rectangle to adjust your preferred wheel size.

Purple Sweet Potato Fruit Brown Rice Pancake Dessert

¹⁷ “Be on your guard against men; they will hand you over to the local councils and flog you in their synagogues. ¹⁸ On my account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they arrest you, do not worry about what to say or how to say it. At that time you will be given what to say, ²⁰ for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.
Matthew 10


Ingredients:


Pancakes
1 egg
2 tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup brown rice flour (raw brown rice powdered in the blender)
1/2 cup whole wheat flour

Purple Sweet Potato Layer
flesh from 1 large purple sweet potato mashed
2 oz. butter (1/2 stick)
1/4 cup honey

Fruit Layer
1 cup pineapple diced
1 cup strawberries diced
1/4 cup maple syrup

Crushed Raw Nuts for Garnish


Directions:
Pancakes
1. mix egg, olive oil, honey, milk and vanilla
2. stir in salt, baking soda, and flours

3. pour tablespoon aliquots of batter onto olive oil-sprayed pan heated to medium heat

4. wait for bubbles to form and flip (~60 sec)
5. wait for about 30 sec

6. cut pancakes into strips

Purple Potato Layer
mix purple potato, honey, and butter

Fruit Layer
bring fruit to a boil and continue cooking stirring continually until fruit is thick like jam

7. layer strips of pancake, purple sweet potato layer, and jam

Top with nuts

Basic Crepes

¹⁵ The eyes of the LORD are on the righteous
   and his ears are attentive to their cry;
¹⁶ the face of the LORD is against those who do evil,
   to cut off the memory of them from the earth.

 ¹⁷ The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears them;
   he delivers them from all their troubles.
¹⁸ The LORD is close to the brokenhearted
   and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

 ¹⁹ A righteous man may have many troubles,
   but the LORD delivers him from them all;
²⁰ he protects all his bones,
   not one of them will be broken.

 ²¹ Evil will slay the wicked;
   the foes of the righteous will be condemned.
²² The LORD redeems his servants;
   no one will be condemned who takes refuge in him.

Psalm 34

Ingredients:
1 egg
1/4 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup whole wheat flour


Directions:
1. mix together egg, milk, honey, and vanilla
2. stir in the baking soda, salt, and flour

3. pour 2 tbsp onto olive oil-sprayed cooking pan under medium low heat
4. swirl pan to extend circle of crepe

5. when bubbles form (~30-60 secs) loosen edges with a spatula and flip
6. cook on the other side for ~10 secs

Good filled with sliced purple sweet potatoes and cheese

Hawaiian Strawberry Mango Pineapple Salad with Coconut and Purple Sweet Potato Cream Layers

⁶ On this mountain the LORD Almighty will prepare
   a feast of rich food for all peoples,
a banquet of aged wine—
   the best of meats and the finest of wines.
⁷ On this mountain he will destroy
   the shroud that enfolds all peoples,
the sheet that covers all nations;
 ⁸ he will swallow up death forever.
The Sovereign LORD will wipe away the tears
   from all faces;
he will remove the disgrace of his people
   from all the earth.
            The LORD has spoken.

 ⁹ In that day they will say,

   “Surely this is our God;
   we trusted in him, and he saved us.
This is the LORD, we trusted in him;
   let us rejoice and be glad in his salvation.Isaiah 25

Ingredients:
2 cups diced pineapple

1 large mango diced

1 cup sliced strawberries


Purple Sweet Potato Cream:
1.5 cups mashed purple sweet potato
1/4 cup milk


Coconut Cream:
4 oz. neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)
1/2 cup shredded coconut
1/2 cup evaporated cane juice (or other sweetener)


Directions:
1. mix the purple sweet potato and coconut creams in two separate bowls

2. layer the fruit and creams in the order of your preference

Purple Sweet Potato Almond Swirl Mini Donuts

⁸ I will cleanse them from all the sin they have committed against me and will forgive all their sins of rebellion against me. ⁹ Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise and honor before all nations on earth that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.’
 ¹⁰ “This is what the LORD says: ‘You say about this place, “It is a desolate waste, without men or animals.” Yet in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted, inhabited by neither men nor animals, there will be heard once more ¹¹ the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those who bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD, saying,
   “Give thanks to the LORD Almighty,
   for the LORD is good;
   his love endures forever.”
   For I will restore the fortunes of the land as they were before,’ says the LORD. Jeremiah 33


Ingredients:
Dough
1 egg
1/2 cup cream
3/4 cup evaporated cane juice (or other sweetener)
2 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2.5 cups flour
Almond Layer
1 cup almond flour (almonds powdered in the blender)
2 tbsp melted Neufchatel cheese
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice
Purple Layer
flesh from 1 medium purple sweet potato mashed
4 oz Neufchatel cheese (1/2 package)
1/4 cup evaporated cane juice

Directions: 
1. mix the dough, almond layer, and purple ingredients in three separate bowls

2. knead the dough for a couple minutes and divide into two balls
3. take a ball of dough and roll it into a rectangle; top with a layer of almond followed by a layer of purple (1/2 of all bowls)

4. fold into a few layers using a spatula to help release the dough from the counter surface

5. slice into ~1/3" slices

6. roll each slice between your palms into an ~5" rod and seal the ends to form a donut; repeat with other half of ingredients

7. place on foil-lined tray and bake for ~20 minutes at 350 degrees F

alternatively fold layered dough once and cut into cubes for square cookies

Purple Sweet Potatoes (My Favorite Food!)

¹⁵ Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. ¹⁷ The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. I John 2


Ingredients:
several purple sweet potatoes (we order them from Hawaii Potato Veggie Farm)

Directions:
1. wash the potatoes well
2. arrange on a foil lined tray separated by at least 1/2 inch

3. bake for ~2 hrs at 350 degrees F or until purple syrup starts to come out


Purple Sweet Potatoes and Fresh Figs (thank you Jovanna and Kateri!)