Candied Yam Cupcake

Often the weekly special at a grocery store triggers me to play with a certain ingredient. Last week it was yams ahead of Thanksgiving. For me, it's a chance to dessert-ize the traditional Thanksgiving dish of candied yams. These mini cupcakes kept disappearing (into my mouth) while I was trying to get a decent shot. What's left of it tasted better the next day.

As a child, I dreamed about chocolates and pastries growing out of trees. Even now the image of popcorns overlaps cherry blossoms in the spring. Here is my wish come true -

DID YOU KNOW?
*Yam or Sweet Potato?*
	* According to Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, what we know as yam is a type of sweet potato with orange flesh. It was a marketing mishap in 1930s in the U.S., where it was introduced confusingly as yam. There are other kinds of sweet potato with pale, yellow, and purple flesh.