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.
Have as 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!
Recipe Ingredients:
- 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!
Ingredients
- 29 oz. can sweet potatoes
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 stick butter
- 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
You may also enjoy these sweet potato recipes:
Sweet Potato Bread With Cinnamon Swirl
Sweet Potato Pie Southern Plate Style
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These are so delicious!! I am a huge sweet potato fan and in addition to being delicious these are quick and easy. I admit I made them without cinnamon (I can’t eat it unfortunately). Since I had to leave out the cinnamon I substituted some of the granulated sugar for brown sugar. It turned out quite good. This will now be one of my go to sweet potato dishes.
Wow these are absolutely amazing and easy to make! I never knew they labeled sweet potatoes as yams
I always mash my sweet potatoes. Guess it isn’t necessary!
I think brown sugar would definitely add to the flavor of the dish.
I baked sweet potatoes for sweet potato casserole for Thanksgiving, but bought a big can of canned sweet potatoes from Harris Teeter in case I didn’t have enough. I had been afraid because my son and I like ours with a pecan crunch topping, but my youngest daughter and her husband only want a marshmallow topping. Anyway, I still have that large can and I am going to make those for myself tonight. My grandmother always made candied yams and they were so good. It was kind of a joke because my grandfather always bought his sweet potatoes from the biggest bootlegger in the county. We don’t know about his moonshine, but he sure had some good sweet potatoes. Thanks for the rexipe.
This reminds me of the way my Momma used to make them but she’d add a pinch of molasses. So good…………….. : )
Would it taste good with a little more spices? Ginger, Cardamom, nutmeg or even some vanilla. Your recipe is going to be made for Easter 75th bday!
If you like them spices you can give them a try. Just make sure you taste test along the way. That’s my favorite part any way!