This Sweet Potato Soup with Maple Cream will warm you through this holiday season. It is like having a slice of pie in a mug. It is that good.
Welcome to the Virtual Surprise Baby Shower for Rachel! Rachel is the champ who runs Rachel Cooks. And her popcorn craving have been driving me crazy since she announced that she was expecting!
We wanted to celebrate Rachel’s new bundle of joy by linking up and throwing her an online shower. I always give it up for momma’s that also run blogs. Honestly, I can’t even begin to pretend I know how rough it can be! I fall behind on posts and my kids are all furry and bathe themselves (well, for the most part).
Rachel is always whipping up show stopping food like this, and this, ooooh yeah and we can’t possibly forget that! She also hosts regular interviews with other bloggers. Just one more thing about her blog I totally dig. So sit on back and enjoy all the food we brought to table!
Creamy Sweet Potato Soup with Maple Cream
I made soup for my step sisters bridal shower, and it was a hit. Now, I can’t imagine throwing a party without a soup option. I stacked mugs near a crock pot set to warm so that people could help themselves throughout the day.
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Creamy Sweet Potato Soup with Maple Cream
Ingredients
For the Soup:
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 1 leek, white part only, sliced
- 2 1/2 lbs sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/2" cubes
- 4 cups vegetable stock
- 2 cups chicken stock
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tbs cider vinegar
- 1/2 tsp freshly ground nutmeg
- Dash of ground clove
- Dash of cayenne pepper
- Freshly ground black pepper
For the Maple Cream:
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 3 tbsp real maple syrup
- 1/8 tsp salt
Instructions
For the Soup:
- In a large stock pot or Dutch oven, heat olive oil over medium-high heat.
- Saute the onion and leek about 3 minutes, or until softened.
- Add sweet potatoes, vegetable and chicken stock, salt, and cinnamon stick. Bring to a boil.
- Cover and reduce heat and simmer about 40 minutes, until sweet potatoes are fork tender. Discard the cinnamon stick.
- Process the soup in batches with your blender (use caution when blending hot liquids!!!) or with your immersion blender, until thick and creamy.
- Return liquid to pot and stir in cream, vinegar, nutmeg, clove, cayenne, and pepper. Heat through, but do not let boil.
For the Maple Cream:
- In the bowl of your electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whisk cream on high until soft peaks form.
- Slowly add maple syrup and salt. Whip until just combined being careful not to over whip (dry peaks).
- Serve soup with dollops of cream on top.
Notes
For leftovers sake, i just stirring the remaining cream into the soup letting it melt evenly. When reheating, microwave on low power stirring every 40 seconds until heated through.
Now go check out all the other goodies my fellow amazing bloggers brought to the party!
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Walnut Streusel Coffee Cake – Cookistry
Salted Caramel Cashew Popcorn – Bake Your Day
Primal Pumpkin Whoopie Pies – Bread & Butter
Turtle Pumpkin Ice Cream Cake – A Spicy Perspective
Southern Cheese Straws – 30 A Eats
Blue layered Jello – Taste and Tell
Mini blackberry pies – Oh Sweet Basil
Salted Caramel Cashew Popcorn – Bakeaholic Mama
Cucumber Sandwiches – Susie Freakin Homemaker
Cranberry Citrus Meatballs (Slow Cooker) – Diabetic Foodie
Itty Bitty Chocolate Thumbprint Cookies – Chip Chip Hooray
Hermit Bars – Chewy Molasses Cookie Bars -The Lemon Bowl
Baby Blue Cheese Burgers – Budget Gourmet Mom
Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls – Mother Thyme
Bourbon Toffee Popcorn – Bran Appetit
Roasted Butternut Squash and Sage Pesto Crostini – Thirfty Veggie Mama
Curried Salmon Phyllo Cups – Cooking with Books
Sweet Potato Pie Dip with Pie Crust Dippers – The Spiffy Cookie
Dark Chocolate Cashew Brittle Cookies – Farmgirl Gourmet
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Apple Asiago Prosciutto Bites – Sarah’s Cucina Bella
Baby Blueberry Pies – Steph’s Bite by Bite
Chicken Salad – Eat 2 Gather
Carrie @ Bakeaholic Mama says
Love love love this soup. I hate sweet potatoes but oddly enough love them in a creamy soup. What a great addition to Rachel’s shower menu!
Katrina @ In Katrina's Kitchen says
Mmmm! I love soup!
Sommer@ASpicyPerspective says
Oh girl, I love that big dollop of goodness on top!
Rachel Cooks says
Wish I was eating this soup for breakfast–it looks amazing! Love the maple cream–wow! Thank you so much for the sweet words and for taking the time to participate in this. I’m so touched and so grateful. xo
Katrina @ Warm Vanilla Sugar says
What an awesome idea! Love this!
Tara @ Chip Chip Hooray says
Anything with sweet potatoes is right up my alley. 🙂
carrian says
This looks wonderful!! Happy baby shower day!!!
Erin @ The Spiffy Cookie says
That maple cream topping sounds fantastic! And I too enjoy our little theme of sweet potato 😉
amanda @ fake ginger says
I was searching for a good sweet potato soup recipe recently. I’m excited to try this one!
Sarah W. Caron says
Maple Cream! Oh wow, that’s genius. Looks amazing!
claire @ the realistic nutritionist says
OH I could easily do this. All night long. HAHAHHA. yep. that just happened on your comments.
30A EATS says
I love soup and this would be a luscious option that I would surely dive into first!
Sheila says
I love fall soups! This looks amazing. I’ve never been to your blog! love it here ; ) so nice to meet you at Rachel’s shower!
Nutmeg Nanny says
This soup looks amazing! I agree about having a soup option. It’s always so comforting and I love the warmth in the cold weather. Thank you again for participating in the event!
Jennifer @ Mother Thyme says
This looks amazing! I have been on a sweet potato kick lately and incorporating in soup sounds fantastic, especially topped with maple cream!
Jamie @ Thrifty Veggie Mama says
Beautiful pictures! I love soup too. Great idea for a fall baby shower
Steph says
SOUP!!! Two bowls for me please!
Barbara | Creative Culinary says
You had me at Maple Cream…must make!
RavieNomNoms says
Oh my goodness gracious! This looks heavenly!
diabeticFoodie says
I made sweet potato bisque for the first time last week – yum! Love your idea of maple cream on top. I would never have thought to serve soup at a shower, but it’s really a great idea.
Kathryn says
I never think of making soup for a party but it’s such a good idea. This soup sounds just perfect for fall.
Cassie | Bake Your Day says
I would eat this every day, Kita. Beautiful!
Luv What You Do says
I’ve never had sweet potato soup, but I think that I would LOVE it! This looks incredible!
Miss @ Miss in the Kitchen says
How smart to have soup in the crock pot for everyone to help themselves and that maple cream has me wanting this now!
Deborah says
I love the idea of having soup for a baby shower – and this soup sounds completely amazing!!
Donna says
Wow, I’ve never made sweet potato soup – it’s a great idea! And the maple is a perfect addition! So perfect for fall and winter.
Marnely Rodriguez-Murray says
Maple cream!? Heck yes! Love this combination!
Mackenzie {SusieFreakingHomemaker} says
Um… you blew my mind with this. Sweet potato soup AND maple cream??? Seriously girl, I cannot wait to meet you at MixedCon!
brandi says
this is gorgeous! and maple cream? i’ll just take a bowl of that with a spoon.
carolyn says
I printed this out weeks ago and FINALLY made it for dinner. Working one full time and one part time job and I finally had a night off (too bad my husband was working late) but I love to cook it relaxes me so I gave this a go – We just loved it. The soup itself was wonderful but the maple cream just added that little something you did not know you needed to put it over the top!. (I also paired this with Zucccini Corn Bread spread with Ricotta Olive oil spread – yummy)