Sweet Potato Casserole

A Family Tradition
As a child, a traditional holiday meal always included my Aunt Ida Bell’s Sweet Potato Casserole. Here’s a close version of her recipe that I made and sold at our small markets in the Fall and holiday seasons. These casseroles are still requested by old customers who say our recipe is the very best!
Tweaking the Recipe
This recipe calls for less sugar than Aunt Ida Bell’s original recipe. I find that many sweet potato casserole recipes are too sweet, but this one is not. Canned sweet potatoes make this a quick and easy recipe, but fresh sweet potatoes can be used as well.
You will need to increase the amount of sugar if using fresh potatoes or unsweetened canned sweet potatoes like “Farmers Market Organic Sweet Potato Puree“. The original recipe calls for canned sweet potatoes in syrup, and I prefer Bruce’s which has a clean label with no high fructose corn syrup.
Freezable
This Sweet Potato Casserole freezes well, and so it can be prepared well ahead of your Thanksgiving meal. Better yet, make several and have one to pull out for unexpected company or Christmas dinner.
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Cuisine
Southern
Ingredients
- 2-29 oz. cans of Bruce’s canned sweet potatoes, drained
OR
- 3 cups mashed unsweetened sweet potatoes (pulp of 4 medium size baked sweet potatoes or 2.5-15oz. cans “Farmer’s Market Organic Sweet Potato Puree”)
- ¼ cup sugar if using Bruce’s canned (1/2 cup if using unsweetened canned or fresh)
- 3/4 t. salt or to taste
- ¼ t. cinnamon
- 2 eggs - slightly beaten
- ½ T pure vanilla
- ½ stick butter - melted
- ½ cup half and half or cream (If using fresh sweet potatoes, you can skip this ingredient)
Topping
- ⅓ cup light brown sugar
- 1 T plain flour
- ½ cup pecans - chopped
- 2 T butter melted
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Instructions
- Drain (discard liquid) sweet potatoes and beat with hand mixer. Add and beat in sugar, cinnamon, eggs, vanilla, melted butter, and cream. Pour into 6 X 12 or 8 X 8 baking dish.
- Topping: Mix together brown sugar, flour, and pecans. Drizzle melted butter slowly over pecan mixture, tossing as you drizzle. Sprinkle topping over sweet potato mixture.
- Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes.
- This casserole freezes well.