How to make a delicious baked sweet potato casserole!
Rita’s Baked Sweet Potato Casserole
When I was younger, my mother would make candied sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving, then, one magical year she came across a recipe for a sweet potato casserole that literally rocked my world and changed the course of Thanksgiving as I knew it.
That sounds a bit dramatic, doesn’t it? But, it is true. My mother passed away when I was a young mother and I never had the chance to make this recipe for her, but, I do have the recipe (in her own handwriting) and I treasure it. Every year when we go to my sister’s house for Thanksgiving I’m asked to bring this and it is always a hit, so much so, that my family asks me to make it even when it’s not a holiday. Sometimes, I give in and say yes 😉 but sometimes, I make them wait for a special occasion.
Sweet Potato Casserole
Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients
- 3 pounds of sweet potatoes peeled cooked and mashed {the same as you would for mashed potatoes}
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup butter, melted
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup pecans Optional - I admit this due to food allergies in several family members
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°. Cook sweet potatoes by boiling in water for 15 to 20 minutes, until slightly soft but not mushy. Remove from pot and allow to cool.
- Once potatoes have cooled down simply pull off the skins.
- Place cooked and peeled potatoes into the bowl of a stand mixer and mash potatoes.
- Add eggs, 1/4 cup of brown sugar, 1/4 cup of butter, salt and cinnamon and blend well.
- Place mixture in casserole.
- If desired, place the pecan halves on top of the mixture. This is where it gets fun-make a snowflake design, your family's monogram, scatter in a random pattern--be as creative [or not] as you choose.
- Sprinkle the remaining brown sugar over the top and then the rest of the melted butter.
- Bake for 25 minutes
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Homemade recipes that are passed from one generation to the next are my favorite and I am so thrilled to share this one with you.
Do you have a favorite family recipe that you make for the holiday?
I would absolutely love to hear about it!
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