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Best of 2013 – #1

Happy New Year’s Eve everyone! Today we’ve arrived at Stagetecture’s number one post of 2013! For the last two days we have counted down from the third most popular post – Sunday Brunch:Perfect French Toast to the second most popular post – Sunday Brunch: Warm Cinnamon Scones Recipe. If you are one of those people who enjoy Thanksgiving sides, especially sweet potatoes, you aren’t alone! If you remember I shared my Gibson Holiday Sweet potato casserole recipe that has been in my family’s recipe books for years. Well there is no denying that you all love this other recipe for this southern favorite – ‘Southern Sweet Potato Casserole’. It was the most popular post in 2013, and I have to say — It’s still one of my favs too! Enjoy everyone and Happy 2014!

First Featured – Entry #2958, November 5, 2013

Don’t have a complete Thanksgiving menu yet? Well, worry no more. You can add this easy to make and delicious Southern Sweet Potato Casserole recipe to your list. You will definitely love its sweet taste and nice texture. It is so easy to prepare and certainly worth the wait. This mouth watering recipe provides the experience of crunchy pecans and cornflakes mix together with chewy marshmallows.

Southern Sweet Potato Casserole

Image via: Joseph Cooking Class

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Ingredients

4 1/2 pounds sweet potatoes
1 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup milk
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/4 cups cornflakes cereal, crushed
1/4 cup chopped pecans
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon butter, melted
1 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows

Image via: Southern Living

Procedure

1. Preheat oven to 400°. Bake sweet potatoes at 400° for 1 hour or until tender. Let stand until cool to touch (about 20 minutes); peel and mash sweet potatoes. Reduce oven temperature to 350°.
2. Beat mashed sweet potatoes, granulated sugar, and next 5 ingredients at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth. Spoon potato mixture into a greased 11- x 7-inch baking dish.
3. Combine cornflakes cereal and next 3 ingredients in a small bowl. Sprinkle over casserole in diagonal rows 2 inches apart.
4. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes. Remove from oven; let stand 10 minutes. Sprinkle marshmallows in alternate rows between the cornflake mixture; bake 10 minutes. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

The whole ingredients make around 6 – 8 servings of Southern Sweet Potato Casserole. It will take you approximately 2 hours and 40 minutes to complete this side dish. Feel free to adjust the sweetness and the crunchiness of this recipe by making some modifications with the sugar and cereal. But take the recipe as it is so you can taste the real sweetness of this deli.

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For as long as I can remember sweet potatoes have been my favorite vegetable. When I was little my dad used to say I wasn’t a couch potato I was a couch “sweet potato”. To this day the memory of my dad calling me this makes me love the vegetable even more. From sweet potato chips, sweet potato pie to sweet potato casserole, their is not a sweet potato recipe I don’t love!

With Thanksgiving around the corner I decided to photograph and make my favorite holiday sweet potato casserole recipe.

Gibson Holiday Sweet Potato Casserole

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Ingredients

5 – 6 Large Sweet Potatoes

1 stick of Butter or Margarine

1/4 cup  Milk

2 Eggs

1/4 cup of Brown Sugar

1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1 bag of Marshmallows (Mini or Large)

Directions

1. Boil sweet potatoes in a large pot until fork tender and let cool. Ensure there is enough room for potatoes to move around to cook evenly.

2. Once potatoes cool, remove peel and place in mixing bowl to mash.

3. Mash potatoes with a potato masher.

4. Add softened butter and beat with an electric mixer.

5. Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each egg. Add sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, milk, vanilla.

6. Grease a 9 1/2″ x 11″ casserole dish non-stick cooking spray and spread sweet potato mixture with a spatula. Shake dish gently to remove lumps and to settle mixture.

7. Bake at 350 degrees F for 35- 40 minutes or until casserole turns light brown.

8. Once cooked place thin layer of mini or large marshmallows. Remember they will expand, so don’t place too many! Place back in the oven for 5-7 minutes until lightly browned.

Note: If you make this recipe ahead of time, wait until ready to serve and then heat casserole without marshmallows. Then place marshmallows 5-10 minutes before serving, otherwise the marshmallows will melt.

This recipe can be adapted by adding streusel, brown sugar, nuts, caramel, etc.. At the Gibson’s we try to keep it simple

Enjoy!

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