Sweet Potato and Apple Latkes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/11/health/sweet-potato-and-apple-latkes-recipes-for-health.html

These were a nice twist on latkes, but when we simply followed the recipe exactly as written, we ended up with something good, but perhaps a little too soft and crumbly for our liking. Putting them on a cookie sheet in the oven for 10-20 minutes didn't change things much, either. One observation was that we ended up with far fewer latkes than predicted by the recipe, which suggests that we should have made them smaller. Doing so may have led to firmer latkes.