Candied Sweet Potatoes Recipe Sooo Easy

I hope you enjoy this Easy Candied Sweet Potatoes Recipe! 

These candied sweet potatoes are so easy and so good!!!!

From a can!

Cooked in the oven!

So easy!

Makes you want to slap yo mama good!!! For you northerners, I don’t want to slap my mama 🙂 That’s just a southern expression when we get excited.  

Candied Sweet Potatoes with a meal or as a dessert

Sweet potatoes are a vegetable, no matter how you prepare them, so you can serve them with the meal and it automatically decreases any guilt you might have cuz these are so good.

Now I want you to try these during the holidays and leave your comments below and let me know what you thought of them.  If you don’t want to tell everyone how easy they are to make, just smile and say it’s a family recipe handed down through the generations. It’s the truth!  You are a part of the Southern Plate family. It was handed down through at least four generations! 

Ingredients for Candied Sweet Potatoes:

• Butter
• Sugar
• Canned sweet potatoes or not canned (about 16-18 oz when cut up)
• Cinnamon

Should I buy sweet potatoes or yams?

Most canned sweet potatoes are labeled yams so just buy those. This is one of those things that drives me slightly bat crazy, because they’re not yams, they’re sweet potatoes. Seriously, if you look on the ingredients of Canned Yams, it says “Sweet potatoes”. But, there are worse things in this world than the continual mislabeling of sweet potatoes so I’ve learned to internalize my annoyance 🙂

How to Make Candied Sweet Potatoes Step By Step

• Drain sweet potatoes and pour into oven proof casserole dish.

This is a round casserole dish but it holds the equivalent of an 8×8 baking dish.

• Sprinkle sugar over sweet potatoes.

• Cut up butter and put on top.   

• Sprinkle with cinnamon.

• Place in oven for 35-40 minutes or until syrupy.

Enjoy!

Easy Candied Sweet Potatoes

Make an easy candied sweet potatoes when the craving hits! Have as a side or a dessert, whatever cranks your trailer 🙂

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Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 1 hour

Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: potatoes

Servings: 4

Calories: 162.3kcal

Ingredients

• 29 oz. can sweet potatoes
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 stick butter or margarine
• 1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Drain sweet potatoes and pour into oven proof casserole dish.
• Sprinkle sugar over sweet potatoes.
• Cut up butter and put on top. Sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Place in oven for 35-40 minutes or until syrupy.

Nutrition

Calories: 162.3kcal

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You may also enjoy these sweet potato recipes:

Sweet Potato Bread With Cinnamon Swirl

Sweet Potato Dumplings: Heaven on a plate!

Sweet Potato Pie Southern Plate Style

Sweet Potato Creme Brûlée

If you’re looking for Grandmama’s Sweet Potato Casserole, please click here. 

Thank God for dirty dishes.
They have a tale to tell.
While others may go hungry,
Thank you, God,
We’re eating well.

 ~Unknown

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