Description
A delicious, sweet version of candied sweet potatoes.
Ingredients
- 4 pounds sweet potatoes, quartered
- 1 ¼ cups margarine
- 1 ¼ cups brown sugar
- 3 cups miniature marshmallows, divided
- ground cinnamon to taste
- ground nutmeg to taste
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease a 9×13-inch baking dish.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add potatoes and boil until slightly underdone
- about 15 minutes; drain and peel when cool enough to handle.
- While potatoes are cooling
- combine 2 cups marshmallows
- margarine
- brown sugar
- cinnamon
- and nutmeg in a large saucepan over medium heat; cook
- stirring occasionally
- until marshmallows are melted.
- Stir potatoes into marshmallow sauce
- mashing about half of the potatoes and breaking the other half into bite-sized chunks. Transfer into the prepared baking dish.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Sprinkle remaining 1 cup marshmallows evenly over top and continue to bake until marshmallows are slightly toasted and golden brown
- about 5 minutes.
Prep Time: 5 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 40 mins
Servings: 12