Christmas Sweets-edible pine cones 食べられる松ぼっくり
Chopstick Chronicles suggest making edible pine cones as Christmas sweets for this holiday season with step by step photos with accessible ingredients.
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 20 min
- Yield
- 10 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 350 g purple sweet potatoes peeled and chopped (*1)
- 15 g unsulted butter
- 2 tbsp sugar (*2)
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 packet Chocolate coated corn flakes (*3)
Instructions
- 1
Place sweet potatoes in a pot and enough water just cover the potatoes.
- 2
Bring it to boil on high heat then turn the heat down to medium and simmer for 10-15 min till the potato is soft and cooked.
- 3
Drain the cooking water and add butter while the sweetpotato is still hot.
- 4
Add sugar, and cocoa powder and mash them all together with a potato masher.
- 5
Take about 2 tbs of mashed sweet potato on to a cling wrap.
- 6
Wrap the sweet potatoes and shape it like a cone.
- 7
Tap it onto the kitchen bench to flatten the bottom gently 2-3 times.
- 8
Unwrap the cling wrap and start inserting bigger pieces of choco flakes from the bottom side.
- 9
Continue inserting choco flakes bigger pieces from the bottom to smaller pieces to the top.
- 10
Repeat same for the remaining ingredients. It will make about 10 pine cones. *4