Pancake Tuesday Sweet Potatoe Cakes

One of my fondest memories is of the Mabry Mill on the Blue Ridge Parkway. My folks took us there to have Sweet Potato Pancakes. It was the most wonderful little cafe. Narrow and small with great food. Joel fell in love with Grits and I with Pancakes.

If you take a humble (but large) sweet potato and bake it for 45 minutes, you will have the beginning of something magical. True love has never started so easily.

Peel and mash it with:
 2 TB honey
1 tea cinnamon
1/2 tea fresh grated nutmeg

Set aside to cool.

Whisk:
 2 3/4 cup flour
1 tea salt
5 Tb plus 1 1/2 tea sugar
1 1/2 tea baking powder
3/4 tea baking soda

Whisk in another bowl:
3 cup buttermilk
3 eggs
2 Tb melted butter

Whisk wet into dry. Then add sweet potato mixture. Let batter stand for 1 hour. That is the only hard part!!

Heat a skillet over medium heat and scoop 1/3 cup at a time. Cook till bubbly.

Light and fluffy..no not fluffy but tender! Joel says, "Fantastic and Amazing!"

A perfect southern breakfast..eggs, sweet potato hash, peppered bacon, sweet potato pancakes..and yes we had grits too!!