Sweet Potato Pancakes with Peach Butter and Spiced Pecans

These were fantastic and went great with the suggestions of serving with the Peach Butter page 40 and Spiced Pecans page 200. My family all also added some pancake syrup to theirs, but I though it was great as is with some crispy bacon on the side. Son-in-law didn't care for the spiced pecans but the rest of the family enjoyed the spicy sweetness the honey and cayenne gave to the nuts. I didn't have Tupelo honey so I just used some local honey.

I have a few thoughts on the recipe though: It would have been helpful to give a weight on the sweet potato instead of just saying large sweet potato. Also they don't say anything about oiling or spraying the pan before frying the pancakes. I guess they just assume the reader is pancake savvy. Good thing I was. The final though about the recipe is that it says it serves 4, well I used the measure called for divvying out the batter and made two fairly large pancakes for each of the 4 of us and it was plenty. Looks like in the picture there are 4 per stack though. Even after making 8 pancakes there was over half the amount of batter left. Next time I will probably only make half a recipe unless I am feeding more than four.

This is a recipe you need to plan ahead for though since you need to bake and cool the sweet potato before mashing and adding to the batter. Also the batter has to sit for one hour before finishing the pancakes. You can whip up the peach butter and spiced nuts while you're waiting. I baked my potato the night before.