In our family, sweet potatoes are almost a separate food group. I think if you asked my dad what his favorite food is, it would have to be sweet potatoes. He can eat them every day for lunch and my mom makes sure they are baked up and ready to go.
My family has been making this dish for as long as I can remember and honestly, it’s more like a dessert, but this time of year we consider this a mainstay side dish for our Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. It’s just not the holidays without Sweet Potato Souffle, made from scratch with real sweet potatoes, not canned and topped with the most delish brown sugar and pecan sugary delight.
Once you taste this, you’ll be hooked! I’m sure this is not a new recipe, there are many variations on it and you may have your own too.
This is my Aunt Mary’s recipe, that’s in her church cookbook and my mom has been making this one for a long, long time. We love it.
It truly is like eating dessert.
And did you know that sweet potatoes are really good for you?
Yep, my dad grows some massive big sweet potatoes and there’s nothing like them. Told you he is hooked on sweet potatoes, I wasn’t kidding.
Click the recipe below to print and save!
Aunt Mary’s Sweet Potato Casserole
Sweet Potato Souffle
Ingredients
- 1 large can drained sweet potatoes mom uses freshly grown sweet potatoes, bakes them and mashes them up to equal 1 can amount
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- Mix well and pour into a baking dish.
Instructions
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Topping:
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One cup brown sugar
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One third cup melted butter
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One cup chopped pecans
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One third cup flour
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Mix well and pour on top of above mixture. Bake 35 to 40 minutes at 350 degrees.
Eat and enjoy!
In other fun news this week, I’m going to be co-hosting another Hometalk Twitter chat this Thursday night at 8 pm EST. This one is sponsored by HGTV (yay!) and there will be some fun prizes given away too. Come and join us for this fun Holiday chat!
Exactly the dish I took to our Thanksgiving dinner. You are absolutely right, it is like dessert! We love sweet potatoes and they are good for you….until you add all the sugar and the topping…Ha! That’s what makes is so good.
Your mom”s dish looks fantastic! I think I used a recipe very similar to that at Thanksgiving. I printed this one out too . Fresh sweet potatoes do make the dish better….I used fresh this year and it was so tasty , last year used canned and could tell the difference. Thanks for sharing and hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!
We are big fans of sweet potatoes too, I have been making this casserole for years and if you haven’t tried it you are really missing out. Delish!! We had it last week for Thanksgiving and those that normally do not like sweet potatoes usually like this just fine.
Mary L
Rhoda this looks so delish!! Yes plus sweet potatoes are good for us!!
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Karena
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I think your Aunt Mary is a long lost relative but that is exactly the recipe our family has been making for the holidays since my childhood, and probably before! It’s SO good and it just wouldn’t be Christmas or Thanksgiving without it. I’ve witnessed that dish turn sweet potato haters into sweet potato lovers many times! 🙂
Thank You for the recipe, I love sweet potatoes.
I use the same recipe except for one or two little things. I put cinnamon, about 1 or 2 teaspoons in the mixture and also the topping. My family loves the topping and ask me to double the recipe for the topping, so I do that too. You are so correct…it’s like eating dessert. Thanks for sharing. Kathy
Hello, Yuuupp! I make this every year for Thanksgiving and now it is requested for Christmas as well. And guess what??? It is very popular up here in the North as well. Us Northern girls know how to keep our peeps happy and comin’ back for more!
On another note…Rhoda, I have not been able to comment lately( school teaching and the Holidays keep me hoppin’) but your house is looking amazing!! Happy Holidays to you and yours! ~Nancy from OHIO
I haven’t heard of this before believe it or not! It looks yummy!!! Thanks so much for linking it to the Holiday Party at Miss Flibbertigibbet’s! Now I can pin it for later and give it a go. 😀
I can’t see the correct amounts for the topping. I’m guessing the following… Can you confirm?
1 cup sugar?
1/3 cup butter?
1/3 cup flour?
Milly, yes, that’s correct. I need to fix that, looks like the 1’s got cut off. Thanks!
Thanks for linking up to Miss Flibbertigibbet today 🙂 Kristin