Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes
I’m the one posting, but this tutorial was all done by Mama so I’ll let her voice take over from here!
This was a favorite dish that I enjoyed as a child at Mama Reed’s. I watched her make it when I was older and then made it from memory after I was married.
My kids seemed to like the fruit flavored marshmallows best on it so that is what I usually use. This recipe was before anyone made the now classic sweet potato casserole with the streusel topping. It was just a dish that was made a little fancier by putting marshmallows on it. Sweet potatoes were something that was usually grown from the garden and available throughout the fall and winter.
When I got married(1969), sweet potatoes were only available in the grocery stores in the fall and winter. I remember someone telling me in the 1980′s that you could now get sweet potatoes year round in the grocery store and I was so excited. I had not noticed them because I took for granted that they were not for sale that time of year. That was just unheard of when I was young. Sweet potatoes were definitely a fall and winter dish that was looked forward to the rest of the year.
Ingredients
- 2 large sweet potatoes or yams
- 1/2 cup sugar or splenda
- 2 Tablespoons margarine or butter
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 egg
- Marshmallows (fruit flavored or plain)
Instructions
- Peel and cut up sweet potatoes. Cover with water and cook until tender.
- Drain. Mash sweet potatoes with potato masher or mixer. Add margarine, sugar, cinnamon and milk. Stir well. Add egg and blend well. (If you add the egg to the hot sweet potatoes, it will begin to cook before it is blended and you will have scrambled eggs in your mixture) Pour sweet potato mixture into oven proof dish. Cover with marshmallows. Place in 350 degree oven and cook until marshmallows are puffed and slightly browned.
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Posted by Christy Jordan
on Oct 21 2008. Filed under Dessert, Holiday Favorites!, Side Dishes, Southern Classics.
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A staple at thanksgiving for sure… I never knew those colored marshmallows were fruit flavored! I guess if ya start out dumb enough.. ya learn something new everyday lol.
Christy, you’re keepin us in suspenders with all these hints of big stuff coming up.. lookin forward to it.
Wow! My family wrapps a big mashmallow with sweet potatoes, rolls it in crackers and FRIES it. Similiar – very decadent!
Bill You know Bill, I never knew they were fruit flavored either until I read it on the package! I just thought they were rainbow colored! I really can’t tell much of a difference in taste but I do like them better on the sweet potatoes! Hehe, I am so excited about what is coming up and y’all know how horrible I am at keeping a secret so you know I don’t have a choice! LOL
EmilyWhitman Emily, Emily, Emily, Emily…..You will be held on high as an angel among all Southerners from here on out through each and every generation of my descendants if you email me that recipe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
christy@southernplate.com
I can beg if I need to!
T’aint no recipe. We just eyeball everything! LOL
Here is something simliar, we just do crushed saltines instead of corn flakes. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Sweet-Potato-Balls-501/Detail.aspx
These sound really good. I have been trying to make a effort to start eating sweet potatoes. I think I am going to give this recipe a shot!
Emily You know, now that I read over that, I remember Granny Jordan having a recipe for those called Sweet Potato Balls. I just didn’t pay a lot of attention to it. I am SLAPPING myself now and will DEFINITELy try these!! Thank you so much!!!
Jason Hey! Let me know how you like them! They are awfully good! I just love the toasted marshmallows!
Christy
Oh another note, anyone ever tried to contact Google before? Its something like trying to bail out the Titanic with a dixie cup. ~grins~
DANG, GIRL! If that ain’t the TRUTH!!!! Been there-tried to do that!
This is like what we always just sweet potato casserole. We have always added raisins, but have never heard of the egg. In fact, first time daughter went to her inlaws for Thanksgiving she said they “did it wrong”. Translation: candied yams not sweet potato casserole. Keep up the great work. Love your recipes. Rebecca
I’ve always just had it with the canned yams. As much as I love candied yams, I think that making it with real sweet potatoes just looks so much better! Maybe I’ll volunteer to bring the sweet potatoes this year…
You know, this would probably be really good with pecans mixed in with the marshmallows. Yum!
Never seen this with the colored marshmallows. Looks more fun.
Heads-Up … I linked you in my post for tomorrow. Come and see me.
Christy… yet again another classic. I have never tried this but I am looking forward to giving it a sample…. can I have a plate full
thanks for sharing
zesty
Marshmallow topped sweet potatoes are my favorite part of Thanksgiving! I have never tried it with the colored ones! Great idea!
I didn’t realize that the colored marshmallows had a fruity taste. I am going to try that!
So pretty! :O)
Colored marshmallows – that’s a first!! How fun for the kiddos.
Rebecca LOL I’ve never had them out of a can in my entire life, would you believe that?
I don’t think they even had canned growing up in Alabama.Raisins sound great!!
Thank you so much, Rebecca!
Stephanie Oh make it with real ones and get a slice to eat raw, its so good!!!! You are RIGHT ON THE MONEY with the pecans, I’m gonna have to try that!!!!!
Belle WOOHOO!! Thank you so much for the link!! I am enjoying keeping up with that post! You got me on the edge of my seat and I can’t wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Zesty ~Passes you a plate with a grin and a wink~ Now, I want homemade pizza!!!!!
Meg AMEN!!! Colored ones are just more festive! Hehe
Deanna You know, I didn’t either until Mama told me!!!
Jessica Thank you!! Wanna bite?/
Life At The Lake yup and you know fun stuff gets ‘em to eat it!! Still in love with your blog, btw!
Thank you all for reading!
Christy
I’ve gotta make this for my son.
He will love that.
This sounds great and I can’t wait to try it on Thanksgiving. This is quite different than the one I make and yours sounds like it will be much better.
I am making these at Thanksgiving. They will be a happy surprise for the grandaughters who love sweet potatoe cassarole and will flip over the colors! I might pick out the pink marshmallos for them.
This will be on my Thanksgiving table!
I know this is a true southern recipe because I had all the ingredients in my kitchen. Most of time I have to go out and by something extra that I may use only one time and it just sets in my cabinet. Pull I was able to keep the webpage up and follow the instruction from it. Thanks for the pictures they really helped. Oh, ya how did you know I only had 2 sweet potatoes in my kitchen?Thanks ago it looks and taste great.
Jen My son loves it too!!! Hope yours does!
Debra I do hope you like it!
Mary Your granddaughters have a wonderful Grandmother! They will love the pastels!
Tina YAY!!!
Lulu I am so glad you like it!! You know, I very seldom put a recipe up here that has ingredients I don’t keep on hand. I find it kind of annoying to want to try a new recipe and have to go get ingredients that I might never use again. I just cook what I call “normal” food, things you have around the house, you don’t have to go to special expense, and its just plain good! So what if you can actually pronounce every ingredient, I don’t think that’s a bad thing!
~grins~
Thank y’all!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
My mother-in-law always added almond extract to her Marshmallow Sweet Potatoes and did not add cinnamon. Try it sometime. I think you will really like it.
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i love to roast marshmallows on open fire, they taste great-,:
My grandmother and then my mother and now I make this-we use a butter nut flavoring-very, very little or it is so strong. we always used the coconut/pecans and corn flakes topping. My new dad(they married when I was 22)-I always sad God blessed me-I had a daddy that I lost @ 13 and then Jim Northcutt came along -see Christy you are not the only one that gets sidetracked.I know make this and stripe both toppings so everyone is happy. Thanks for your great website-I have had more fun cooking since finding it than I have in years.
Oo-oo-oo-oo, butter nut flavoing!! Was introduced to that wonderful flavoring not long ago! Thanks for the idea Kathi! Gonna use that when a make this! And thanks to Mama Janice for this recipe!
I saw something in the store last night that was SO cute and I think would be really good on these. They were gingerbread man shaped marshmallows and had some ginger IN them also, apparently. (They sure smelled good anyway.) Plus, french vanilla & chocolate/vanilla swirls, but, the chocolate would be better with hot cocoa, I’m sure! Anyway, I love sweet potatoes, and these look really good without being too rich. (My brother has a nice sweet potato casserole that is VERY good, but, way too rich for me.) Thanks again, Christy
Question…..when you substitute splenda, do you use an entire 1/2 cup? And, is the taste okay? I want to make these for Thanksgiving, but want to be sure! My husband is diabetic and loves sweet potato casserole – I know there’ll be sugar in the marshmallows, but not so bad if I use splenda in the casserole!
Thanks!
Sweet potato short cut——wash and boil them in the skins—let cool completely- they are almost mashed when you remove them—-sweet potato pies are my favorite during the holidays!!!!
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Someone told me sweet potatoes taste better in casserole if you bake them, and guess what… they sure do!
Steamable sweet potato cubes (for the microwave) are now available in the frozen food section. I see casseroles in my future!
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I used canned, mush em up, add brown sugar, cinnamon and a little maple syrup, mix it all up …put marshmallows on top and bake til melty and brown. the kids love it.
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maybe someone can answer this question for me by today if possible my son’s bday party is coming up on the 18th of august i want to make this recipe i have an oval roaster tray 16in.x131/8in.x31/8in. how many potatos should i use?? thank u!
Can hardly wait to make these for this year’s Thanksgiving Dinner because I came across pumpkin spice marshmallows!! Thank you for the recipe, Mama Janice!
a couple years ago, i gave up peeling sweet potatoes for my pies. i would think it would work for this recipe too.. i just wash them & boil in a little water… when tender, take out of water and let cool.. the peeling slides right off, leaving that yummy sweet potato .. not sure about losing nutrients and such, but i can’t tell you lose any flavor.. just a note
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My husband and I love sweet potato casseroles but I cant get the kids to eat it. I will try this and see if it will get them to eat it.lol They love marshmallows. Thank you for the recipe.
Read when I got married in 1969 and thought to myself there is no way she got married before me and has 2 small children. Then dawned on me it’s her mother not Christy. It helps if you start at the beginning and not jump in in the middle of a post. Love me some sweet potatoes.