Sweet Potato Classic

12 ingredients
1 steps

Ingredients

  • 5 sweet potatoes
  • 14 teaspoon salt
  • 14 cup butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 12 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 12 cup white sugar
  • 2 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 14 cup butter, softened
  • 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 34 cup packed light brown sugar
  • 12 cup chopped pecans

Directions

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    ["1.", "Preheat oven to 350*F. Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.", "2.", "Bake sweet potatoes 35 minutes in the preheated oven, or until they begin to soften.", "Cool slightly, peel, and mash.", "3.", "In a large bowl, mix the mashed sweet potatoes, salt, 1/4 cup butter, eggs, vanilla extract, cinnamon, sugar, and heavy cream.", "Transfer to the prepared baking dish.", "4.", "In a medium bowl, combine 1/4 cup butter, flour, brown sugar, and chopped pecans.", "Mix with a pastry blender or your fingers to the consistency of course meal.", "Sprinkle over the sweet potato mixture.", "5.", "Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven, until topping is crisp and lightly browned.", "My Tip's: I heeded advice and cut back the white sugar to 1/3 cup and brown sugar to 2/3 cup which cut back on the sweetness.", "Hint for easy cooking of potatoes, just peel and then boil like regular white potatoes.", "No need to boil and them try to coax them out of their jackets the hard way .", "A secret for those who do not like \"stringy\"" sweet potatoes -- use a mixer to combine the sweet potatoes and other ingredients.""

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