Chocolate Chip Sweet Potato Squares

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 36
• 1 (15 3/4 ounce) can sweet potatoes, in heavy syrup, drained (reserve 3 tablespoons of syrup)
• 2 3/4 cups flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground allspice
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup butter, room temperature
• 3/4 cup sugar
• 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 1/4 cups pecans, chopped (divided)
• cooking spray

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 spray a 15x10x1 inch jelly roll pan with cooking spray.
• 3 mash sweet potatoes with reserved syrup.
• 4 in another bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, and salt.
• 5 beat together butter and sugars at medium speed for 2 minutes or until smooth and lightened in color.
• 6 beat in eggs one at a time.
• 7 on low speed, beat in half of the dry ingredients, followed by sweet potatoes, and finally the last of the dry ingredients.
• 8 fold in chips and half of the pecans.
• 9 spread batter evenly in pan.
• 10 sprinkle remaining pecans over top.
• 11 bake for 35-40 minutes or until lightly browned and the pecans are toasted.
• 12 cool in pan on a wire rack before cutting into squares.