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Twice Baked Candied Sweet Potatoes! Twice baked sweet potatoes sweetened with brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger, then topped with mini marshmallows. Makes for great individual side dishes! | HomemadeHooplah.com

Twice Baked Candied Sweet Potatoes

30 minutes prep + 1 hour 20 minutes cook
307 kcal
Yields: 8 servings
Try a winter classic in a new way: sweet potatoes sweetened with brown sugar, cinnamon, and nutmeg, then twice baked in potato halves.

Ingredients

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
  • Coat sweet potatoes in olive oil and pierce skins numerous times with a fork. Place sweet potatoes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
    4 large sweet potatoes, 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • Bake sweet potatoes for 1 hour and 10 minutes or until soft and skins are slightly wrinkled. Allow sweet potatoes to cool for 10 minutes.
  • Cut sweet potatoes in half. Using a spoon or a cookie scoop, remove the inside of the sweet potatoes, being careful to leave a 1/4 to 1/2 inch ring around the sides so that the potatoes keep their shape. Place sweet potato pulp in a large bowl. Set the halved and emptied sweet potatoes back on the baking sheet.
  • Add brown sugar, melted butter, sweetened condensed milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger in the bowl with the sweet potato pulp. Using a potato masher or hand mixer, blend ingredients together and smooth.
    1/4 cup light brown sugar, 1/4 cup salted butter, 1 tablespoon sweetened condensed milk, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon, 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
  • Spoon blended sweet potato mix back into the sweet potato halves, filling each a little past full.
  • Place potato skins back in the oven and heat for 10-15 minutes, then remove from oven.
  • Set oven to broil.
  • For each potato half, press marshmallows in the soft sweet potato mix, completely covering the top.
    3 cups miniature marshmallows
  • Place filled sweet potatoes back in the oven on the top rack until marshmallows melt and lightly brown, about 1-2 minutes. Since each oven is different, keep a close eye on the marshmallows so they don't burn. If they do burn, you can use two spoons to remove the marshmallows (they should come right up in a solid piece) then repeat the steps of placing the marshmallows on the sweet potatoes and lightly browning them in the oven.
  • Serve immediately.