The Ultimate Sweet Potato Casserole

This recipe is the ultimate Sweet Potato Casserole recipe. I promise this side dish will be a huge crowd-pleaser. In this post, I am going to show you how to make a sweet potato casserole that everyone will be begging you to make for every family gathering.

I just want to go ahead and let you know, right from the start, that this is a sweet potato casserole recipe WITH pecan topping.

No, it does NOT have marshmallows on top. Whoever decided sweet potato casserole needed marshmallows on top is a fucking idiot.

Sorry, not sorry. Just voicing my own personal opinion (winky emoji).

My recipe has this amazingly thick crunchy candy-like topping with pecans. Most recipes usually have more sweet potato than topping.

I’d have to say my recipe is a good 50/50 ratio of sweet potatoes and an amazeballs topping. Sometimes I even have more topping because let’s be honest the topping is the only reason we eat it!

Most people, myself included, make it during the holiday seasons; Thanksgiving and Christmas mainly. I honestly don’t know why that is. It’s not that hard to make.

Maybe a little time-consuming. But why don’t we make it more than a couple of times a year? I’m going to have to do better.

I know my family would appreciate it more if I made it more than twice a year. HaHa. Shall we move on to the recipe itself?

Ingredients For Sweet Potato Casserole

• 3 Medium-Sized Sweet Potatoes
• 2/3 cup Sugar
• 1 1/3 Stick of Butter (softened)
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1/3 cup Milk
• 1 cup Brown Sugar (packed)
• 1/2 cup Flour
• 1 cup Pecans (chopped)

Sweet Potato Casserole

The first thing you are going to want to do is to peel your sweet potatoes.

Once peeled chop them into big pieces because you are then going to boil them until they are soft and easy to smoosh. I’d say boiling them will take roughly 25 minutes, give or take.

While your sweet potatoes are boiling you can then start on the topping.

Grab a medium size bowl. Add one stick of butter; make sure the butter is soft and at room temperature.

Why? Because you are about to squish it with a whole lot of other goodness to create the best damn topping EVER!

And using a stick of butter straight from the fridge really makes you work at it.

Back to the medium-sized bowl; add one stick of softened butter, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar (packed), 3/4 cup flour, and 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans.

Now it’s time to get your hands a little messy. Get in there and start squishing everything together until it is well combined into a crumbly mess.

I suppose you could use a big fork to do this step but I just usually use my hands. Nothing a little soap and water can’t take care of.

Set the topping aside for now while you finish preparing the sweet potatoes part of the casserole.

Once your sweet potatoes are at the right consistency to mush, drain out all the water and grab your mixer. You can use a handheld mixer or one of those fancy kitchen aid mixers.

In your bowl, with the sweet potatoes, add 1 stick of butter (softened), 2/3 cup of sugar, 2 eggs, 1 tsp vanilla, and 1/3 cup of milk. Mix everything together with your mixer until well combined.

Then pour into a 2.5 qt casserole dish.

A 9×13 baking dish will work as well. It just depends on which sweet potato/pecan topping ratio you prefer.

By using a 2.5 qt dish you get (in my opinion) the perfect sweet potato to pecan topping ratio. But if you use the 9×13 then it thins everything out a little bit more.

Now take your topping and sprinkle it evenly across the top of your sweet potato mush.

Toss it in the oven and bake at 350° for 45-60 minutes. Just until the topping is brown, cooked through, and no longer jiggly. It’s AMAZEBALLS!

Here are a few other great sides that you can make to go with your Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner:

Greenbean Casserole

Sweet Potato Casserole

This is the ultimate Sweet Potato Casserole recipe. With an amazing crumble candy like topping of pecans; causes this dish to disappear quick.

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Prep Time 20 minutes mins

Cook Time 1 hour hr

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Servings 16

Equipment

• 2.5qt casserole dish or 13×9 baking dish (see notes if you use 13×9 dish)
• hand mixer or Kitchenaid mixer

Ingredients

  

Sweet Potato

• 3 medium Sweet Potatoes
• 1 Stick of butter (softened)
• ⅔ cups Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• ⅓ cups Milk

Pecan Toppin

• ⅓ cup Butter (softened)
• 1 cup Brown Sugar
• ½ cup Flour
• 1 cup Chopped Pecans

Instructions

 

Sweet Potato

• Peel, chop into big chunks, and boil your sweet potatoes until they are soft and able to be mushed.
• Drain the water. Then add butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and milk. Mix with a mixer until well combined and the butter has melted in completely.
• Add to a 2.5 qt casserole dish or 13×9 baking dish (see notes for 13×9 topping measurements)

Pecan Topping

• In a separate medium size bowl add softened butter, brown sugar, flour, and chopped pecans. Mix together with your hands until everything is well combined and crumbly.
• Sprinkle evenly on top of your sweet potato mixture.
• Bake at 350° for 45-60 minutes.
• Enjoy!

Notes

If you bake in a 13×9 dish then use these measurements JUST for the pecan topping ingredients:

1 stick of butter softened, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, 3/4 cup flour, 1 1/2 cups chopped pecans

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