Sweet Potato Casserole with Pecans and Marshmallows
This sweet potato casserole is my family's favorite side dish for Thanksgiving and I hope it will continue to be for years to come. I use a topping that has both pecans and marshmallows.
Course Side Dish
Cuisine American
Keyword best Thanksgiving side dish, pecan and marshmallows topping, sweet potato casserole, Thankgiving side dish, Thankgiving sweet potato casserole
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 1 hourhour30 minutesminutes
Cooling time 20 minutesminutes
Total Time 2 hourshours5 minutesminutes
Servings 8people
Calories 667kcal
Author admin
Ingredients
Filling
4big sweet potatoes (or 6 medium ones)about 2.5 lbs
5tbspsgheebutter works too
2 eggs
0.5cupsheavy cream
1tbspvanilla extract
1.5tspcinammon
0.5tspnutmeg
0.5 tspsalt
⅔cupschopped pecans
6tbspsbrown sugaradd more if you like it sweeter
Topping
2cupspecans halves
4tbspsbrown sugar
0.5cupsflour
4tbspsgheebutter works too
1.5cupsmini marshmallows
Instructions
Bake sweet potatoes for an hour in 425 degrees. I tend to use the toaster oven for this so i can still have access to the oven for the other Thanksgiving dishes I'm cooking simultaneously. Bake until you can easily pierce the sweet potatoes with a fork.
Let them cool down. Once you can handle them with your hands, cut the sweet potatoes in half and then use a spoon to scoop the soft part out. Put it all in a deep bowl.
Beat the eggs lightly and pour it over the sweet potatoes. Add the heavy cream, brown sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, melted ghee and chopped pecans. Mix it all well with a spoon. You can use a mixer if you like the filling to be smoother, i like to have smaller chunks of the potatoes here and there so that's why i manually mix it all up.
Place the filling in a baking dish. My favorites are a glass baking dish or a ceramic white one which looks beautiful in the table when having guests over.
Topping
Place the pecans in a shallow bowl. I like them to be in halves for the topping but feel free to chop them up if you like smaller pieces. Add the brown sugar, flour, butter or ghee and mix them all up. Spread this thick layer over the filling. Decorate with the desired amount of marshmallows on top.
Bake for about 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees. If you don't like the marshmallows to get too dark, feel free to cover with foil for part of the baking.
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Notes
I have replaced the flour with quick oats occasionally for the topping and I really like it but my kids don't so I continue to use flour.