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Yummy Sweet Potato Casserole

Yummy Sweet Potato Casserole

Yummy Sweet Potato Casserole

 

Ingredients

Sweet Potatoes:

  • 4 cups peeled, cubed sweet potatoes
  • 2 large eggs, beaten
  • ½ cup white sugar
  • ½ cup milk
  • 4 tablespoons butter, softened
  • ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Pecan Topping:

  • ½ cup packed brown sugar
  • ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
  • 3 tablespoons butter, softened
  • ½ cup chopped pecans

Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

  2. Prepare sweet potatoes: Put sweet potatoes in a medium saucepan and cover with water. Cook over medium-high heat until tender, 10 to 15 minutes. Drain and transfer to a large bowl.

    Chopped sweet potatoes boiling in saucepan
     
    Chopped sweet potatoes in glass bowl.
     

  3. Mash drained sweet potatoes with a fork. Add eggs; mix until well combined. Add sugar, milk, butter, vanilla, and salt; mix until smooth. Transfer to a 9×13-inch baking dish.

    Mashed sweet potatoes in glass bowl.
     
    Mashed sweet potatoes with added eggs, sugar, milk, butter, vanilla, and salt.
     

  4. Make topping: Mix brown sugar and flour together in a medium bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry cutter until mixture is coarse and looks like peas; don’t overmix. Stir in pecans. Sprinkle topping over sweet potato mixture.

    Brown sugar and flour in a glass bowl with butter cut in with a pastry cutter.
     
    Brown sugar, flour, egg, milk, sugar mixture with pecans incorporated in.
     

  5. Bake in the preheated oven until topping is lightly browned, about 30 minutes.

    Finished baked sweet potato casserole in white casserole dish.
     

  6. Enjoy!

    a close up view of a spoonful of sweet potato casserole, topped with pecans and brown sugar, being lifted from a white baking dish.