Sweet Potato Casserole
A holiday table tradition!
I’ve spent countless hours scouring the Internet and my cookbooks for a crowd-pleasing sweet potato casserole that even my pickiest kiddo will enjoy. Keeping my family’s likes and dislikes in mind, I gathered a little here and a little there and finally came up with my own recipe that has become a holiday tradition. The best part of this recipe is that it can be halved and made to eat immediately while the other half can be frozen for up to two months. Now that helps keep my Holidays happy!
Sweet Potato Casserole
Ingredients
- 3 large sweet potatoes
- ¼ cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ¼ teaspoon ground cloves
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 4 tablespoons Hiland Dairy Butter softened
- ½ cup Hiland Dairy Milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tablespoons Hiland Dairy Butter cold
- ½ cup chopped pecans
Instructions
- Prick each potato several times with a fork, wrap in aluminum foil, and bake them for 1¼ hours at 375 degrees. After they’ve cooled, cut each potato in half and scoop out the pulp into a large mixing bowl.
- Lower the oven temperature to 350 degrees.
- Add sugar, eggs, salt, seasonings, butter, milk and vanilla to the sweet potato pulp. Mix together with a hand mixer until smooth.
- Transfer the potato mixture into a baking dish.
- Tip: I make two separate casseroles – one to eat immediately and one to freeze for a later meal. Do not add the topping to the dish you’re going to freeze. Add the topping right before baking.
- In a medium bowl, mix the brown sugar and flour. Cut in the cold butter until the mixture looks like pea-sized crumbles. Stir in the pecans. Sprinkle the mixture over the sweet potato mixture.
- Tip: If you are splitting the recipe, only sprinkle half of the topping onto one casserole and save the other half in an airtight container. Put it in the refrigerator until you bake the second casserole.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes. Serve warm.
~ The Dairy Diva
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