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Check with a grownup, and wash your hands before you begin.
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
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Open the can of sweet potatoes.
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Using a sieve or colander, drain out all the liquid.
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Pour the sweet potatoes into a large bowl.
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Mash the sweet potatoes with a potato masher or a fork.
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Melt the butter in a medium microwave-safe bowl.
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DO NOT OVERCOOK the butter!
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Microwave for 30 seconds at a time (as many times as needed) until the butter is melted.
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Then pour melted butter into mashed potatoes and stir it inches (Be careful!
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The butter might be hot.
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Add brown sugar to the potato mixture, and stir it inches.
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Crack eggs into a medium bowl, and beat them with a fork until smooth and yellow.
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Pour eggs into the potato mixture, and stir them inches.
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Add milk, sweetened coconut flakes, and spices to the potato mixture.
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Stir everything together until it is mixed.
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(Note: if you don't have all the spices, don't worry.
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Adding even one or two spices will make it tastier!
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).
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Pour the potato mixture into an oven-safe, glass, baking dish.
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Using oven mitts, place the potatoes into the oven.
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Bake uncovered for 45 minutes at 350 degrees.
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Clean up the kitchen while the wonderful aroma of baking sweet potato pudding fills your kitchen!
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When the timer rings, your sweet potato pudding is done!
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Ask a grownup to use oven mitts to take the baking dish out of the oven.
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Set the dish someplace safe to cool.
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Make sure to turn off the oven.
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Enjoy your pudding warm (but not too hot!
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), or cold.
