These Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes gustatory modality similar a classic sweet potato casserole simply it’sec such a fun new mode to serve it equally individually stuffed boats instead. They have just enough sweet and rich season, they have a corking blend of textures, in addition to the trio of layering volition leave everyone impressed!
Individual Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Baking sweet potatoes twice takes a piffling more fourth dimension, merely is good worth the attempt. Orange flesh sweetness potatoes are baked until nicely tender, so they are hollowed out into boat-like shapes. From at that place, the sugariness potato filling is mashed in addition to blended with butter, cream, maple syrup, too a hint of spices.
Once perfectly combined, return the mashed sweetness potatoes to the skins, embrace them alongside a pecan streusel topping, as well as bake until it’s satisfyingly crisp. And concluding but non least they are finished alongside melty, broiled, in addition to beautiful browned mini marshmallows.
Such a process to enjoy year-round, not just on Thanksgiving! Is this dessert or a Thanksgiving side dish? You decide.
These are made amongst a medium sugariness to them but yous tin easily adapt it to gustatory modality past drizzling in more maple syrup as y'all mix.
As a side Federal Reserve note to clarify (because I ever go questions on this) aye you lot volition be using sweetness potatoes here, non yams. So much confusion about this labelling just yous tin can run across the differences here.
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes Recipe Ingredients
- five medium (12 oz each) sugariness potatoes
- four Tbsp unsalted butter (good softened), addition three Tbsp unsalted butter (melted)
- 1/four loving cup heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp maple syrup, or more than to gustatory modality
- 1/two tsp earth cinnamon, divided
- 1/4 tsp earth nutmeg
- 1/two tsp common salt, then more to taste
- 1/ii loving cup (56 g) chopped pecans
- ane/3 cup all-function flour
- iii Tbsp (39 g) low-cal brownish saccharide
- one cup mini marshmallows
How to Make Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
- Heat oven, prepare baking canvas: Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line a rimmed 18 past thirteen-inch baking sail alongside a canvass of aluminum foil.
- Bake sweet potatoes until tender: Pierce each sweet potatoes several times with a fork. Place them on prepared baking canvas together with bake until soft, well-nigh l to 70 minutes.
- Remove potatoes from oven in addition to allow cool slightly. Leave oven on at 375 degrees.
- Prepare the streusel topping: Meanwhile brand the topping. In a medium mixing bowl whisk together pecans, flour, chocolate-brown carbohydrate, one/iv tsp cinnamon in addition to a pinch of table salt. Pour inwards 3 Tbsp melted butter so stir with a fork until evenly moistened.
- Scoop out sweet tater flesh: Slice each sugariness tater in half through the length. Scoop out the flesh of 9 of the halves into a big mixing bowl while leaving near a ane/four-inch rim of sweetness potato around each. Spoon out all of the flesh of the terminal sweetness tater (no need to go out a rim) into the bowl (discard the final skin).
- Place the ix hallowed-out sweet murphy skins on a foil-lined baking sail.
- Mash or rice the sugariness potatoes: Pass sugariness potato flesh through a white potato ricer or nutrient manufacturing plant if yous want them completely shine, otherwise merely squash good amongst a Irish potato masher.
- Add flavorings: Add the softened butter, heavy cream, maple syrup, one/4 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg as well as ane/2 tsp salt. Stir to blend well and add together a niggling more table salt (up to one/four tsp) every bit desired.
- Fill sweet spud skins amongst mashed sweet potatoes: Spoon the mashed sugariness tater mixture dorsum into the ix hallowed out sugariness potato skins in addition to spread fifty-fifty.
- Top alongside streusel, bake: Sprinkle the streusel topping evenly over each sugariness tater. Return to oven too bake 10 to fifteen minutes until topping is crisp as well as golden brown.
- Remove from the oven and then move the oven rack upwards nigh vi inches from the broiler.
- Add marshmallows then broil: Sprinkle the marshmallows evenly over the potatoes (you lot may have to press slightly then they don’t curlicue off). Heat the broiler, and so home the baking sheet alongside the potatoes nether broiler and go on at that place very briefly until marshmallows are aureate brown – this may entirely accept nigh x seconds (or upwardly to ane minute) so don’t walk away!
- Serve them warm.
How to Make Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes in Advance
If y'all want, you tin can definitely cook these ahead of time. To do so:
- Bake so mash the potatoes, mix with flavorings and return to their skins. Cover in addition to refrigerate.
- Make the streusel together with refrigerate separately.
- Bake them ten minutes at 375 covered alongside foil, and so uncover, add the topping together with bake almost 10 to fifteen minutes longer (they should live fully heated through).
- Finish with marshmallows every bit directed.
Helpful Tips
- Use sweetness potatoes that are similar inward size and so they complete baking well-nigh the same fourth dimension.
- Try to notice potatoes that are most 12 oz each, because once divide in one-half they brand for nice private servings at six oz each.
- If you desire a smoother mashed sweet white potato filling and so croak the baked filling through a ricer or nutrient manufacturing plant or even blitz in a nutrient processor.
- Don’t walk away when broiling! This is touchstone to pretty much whatever recipe when broiling just especially here. These footling marshmallows could fire unbelievably fast if not removed speedily.
- Wait to bake the stuffed potatoes until you lot are nigh prepare to serve them and so they’ll live warm. They definitely taste best warm.
Possible Baked Sweet Potatoes Variations
- Use walnuts inward home of pecans.
- If y'all alone have salted butter it volition operate just cut the common salt inwards the recipe to i/iv tsp.
- Increase the sugariness in the mashed sweet potatoes every bit desired (past adding more than maple syrup or brown sugar).
- Add i tsp vanilla for more sweet flavour.
- Try alongside other autumn spices like ginger, allspice, cardamom or cloves.
- Rather than toasting marshmallows inwards the oven you lot can toast them amongst a kitchen torch.
- Or complete amongst a homemade marshmallow topping (like that used here). Pipe over the tops one time they’re consummate (rather than using mini marshmallows) then toast alongside a kitchen torch.
More Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Servings: ix
Ingredients
- v medium (12 oz each) sugariness potatoes
- 4 Tbsp unsalted butter, good softened
- i/iv loving cup heavy cream
- ii Tbsp maple syrup, or more than to taste
- one/four tsp ground cinnamon
- ane/4 tsp earth nutmeg
- i/ii tsp table salt, then more than to gustation
Streusel Topping
- 1/ii cup (56 g) chopped pecans
- i/iii cup all-role flour
- 3 Tbsp (39 g) calorie-free chocolate-brown sugar
- ane/iv tsp earth cinnamon
- one pinch salt
- iii Tbsp unsalted butter, melted
- i loving cup mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees. Line a rimmed 18 past 13-inch baking sheet amongst a sail of aluminum foil.
- Pierce each sweetness potatoes several times alongside a fork. Place them on prepared baking sail too bake until soft, nearly fifty to lxx minutes.
- Remove potatoes from oven in addition to allow cool slightly. Leave oven on at 375 degrees.
- Meanwhile brand the topping. In a medium mixing bowl whisk together pecans, flour, chocolate-brown sugar, one/four tsp cinnamon as well as a pinch of salt. Pour in three Tbsp melted butter and so stir alongside a fork until evenly moistened.
- Slice each sugariness potato inward one-half through the length. Scoop out the flesh of nine of the halves into a large mixing bowl patch leaving most a 1/iv-inch rim of sweet potato around each. Scoop out all of the flesh of the last sweet white potato (no take to go out a rim) into the bowl (discard the last peel).
- Place the nine hallowed out sweetness Irish potato skins on a foil lined baking sail.
- Pass sweetness white potato flesh through a spud ricer or food manufacturing plant if y'all want them completely polish, otherwise simply crush well alongside a white potato masher.
- Add the softened butter, heavy cream, maple syrup, i/4 tsp cinnamon, nutmeg and 1/2 tsp salt. Stir to blend good as well as and so gustation in addition to add a fiddling more than maple syrup or common salt if desired.
- Spoon the mashed sweetness potato mixture back into the 9 hallowed out sugariness tater skins and spread fifty-fifty.
- Sprinkle the streusel topping evenly over each sweetness murphy. Return to oven together with bake ten to fifteen minutes until topping is crisp too gold brown.
- Remove from the oven so move the oven rack up about half dozen inches from the broiler.
- Sprinkle the marshmallows evenly over the potatoes (you may accept to press slightly and so they don't coil off). Heat the broiler and so place the baking sheet with the potatoes nether broiler as well as proceed at that place rattling briefly until marshmallows are gilt brown - this may exclusively have near ten seconds (or upward to i minute) and then don't walk away!
- Remove from oven together with serve while the twice baked sweetness potatoes are warm.
Notes
Alternatively you tin can toast the marshmallows alongside a kitchen torch, merely be rattling careful as they tin can ignite quite easily as well as demand to be blown out rapidly.
Nutrition Facts
Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
Amount Per Serving
Calories 372
Calories from Fat 144
% Daily Value*
Fat 16g25%
Saturated Fat 8gfifty%
Trans Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 2g
Monounsaturated Fat 6g
Cholesterol 32mgeleven%
Sodium 247mgeleven%
Potassium 692mgtwenty%
Carbohydrates 55geighteen%
Fiber 6g25%
Sugar 18gtwenty%
Protein 4geight%
Vitamin A 27186IU544%
Vitamin C 5mghalf dozen%
Calcium 79mgeight%
Iron 2mg11%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition values are estimates solely. See total disclaimer here.