Toddler Recipe: Sweet Potato Fries

// May 17th, 2010 // Children and Babies, Cooking

A while back I told you that my recipe for sweet potato fries was forthcoming. Well, finally it is here, although it’s not much of a recipe. Basically, I just peel a sweet potato and cut it into sticks. If you’ve never cut a sweet potato before, they are way tougher than a regular potato. I think the easiest way to cut them is to cut them in half, slice the halves, and then cut each slice into french fry-sized pieces. There is a video of how to make sweet potato fries on Weelicious if you want to see how to cut the fries, or if you’d rather use her recipe than mine.

Once you’ve cut the potato, spread the pieces on a foil covered cookie sheet sprayed with nonstick spray. You don’t have to do the foil-lined pan, but it sure makes clean up easy.

Drizzle a little bit of olive oil over the potatoes and kind of swirl them around to make sure they are coated. Then sprinkle the fries with cinnamon. Bake at 400 for about 30 minutes.

They’ll look like this:

When they cool, give them to your toddler, who, with any luck, will love them. Bear did not like them at first, but now he really does. He’ll even eat them cold out of the refrigerator the next day. I think his new-found love of sweet potato fries stems from this very important step in the recipe:

When your toddler sees the fries and yells, “CHEETO!!” do not, under any circumstances, correct him. As long as he thinks they are Cheetos, he will continue to eat them.