Roasted Sweet Potato Jack-o-Lantern Faces and Ghosts
Cuisine: Halloween
Author: Guava Rose
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Total time: 35 mins
Roasted sweet potato slices, fun for Halloween!
Ingredients
  • Oil
  • Sea salt
For the Jack-o-lanterns:
  • Large orange fleshed sweet potatoes (3" to 4" diameter)
For the Ghosts:
  • Small yellow fleshed sweet potatoes (1-1/2" to 2" diameter)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Grease each large baking sheet with 2 T. oil.
Jack-o-lanterns:
  1. Peel the sweet potatoes. Slice crosswise into 3/16" to ¼" slices. Use small jack-o-lantern cutters to cut out the eyes and mouth for each slice. Because the potatoes are so hard, place a small flat plate on top of the cutters, and press down to help the cutters push through the raw potato. Place the jack-o-lantern faces onto the greased baking sheet in a single layer, rubbing them gently into the oil, then turn them over.
  2. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt. Bake for 20 minutes, or until tender.
Ghosts:
  1. Peel the sweet potatoes. Slice lengthwise into 3/16" to 14" slices. Place them onto the greased baking sheet in a single layer, rubbing them gently into the oil, then turn them over. Sprinkle lightly with sea salt.
  2. Bake the pans for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are tender. Remove from oven and let cool 1-2 minutes. Loosen the slices from the baking sheet with a spatula, then leave them in the pan until they are cool enough to handle with your hands.
  3. Use a large diameter plastic straw, like one from a Boba drink, to cut out the eyes. Boba drink straws have one end that is flat, and the other end that is cut diagonally to create a sharp tip to pierce the the plastic cover of the boba drink. For oval shaped eyes, squeeze near the flat end of the straw to make the opening oval shaped before cutting each eye out. If you want round eyes, just leave the straw as is before cutting the eyes out.
  4. Small russet potatoes may also be used. The slices take about 5 minutes longer to cook than the sweet potato slices.
Recipe by Guava Rose at http://www.guavarose.com/2013/10/roasted-sweet-potato-jack-o-lantern-faces-and-ghosts/