Joanna Gaines Sweet Potato Casserole Recipe
Make the side dish that steals the show! This copycat Joanna Gaines sweet potato casserole features fluffy sweet potatoes topped with crunchy cornflakes, pecans, and toasted marshmallows.
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Servings: 10
Ingredients
Casserole
- 6 large sweet potatoes roughly 5 pounds
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 stick butter unsalted, softened
- 1/2 cup milk
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
Topping
- 1 cup cornflakes cereal
- 1/2 cup pecans chopped
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 4 teaspoons butter melted
- 2 cups miniature marshmallows
Instructions
- Poke the sweet potatoes with a fork or knife a few times. Wrap each sweet potato in foil and bake in the oven until tender. Roughly 1 hour.
- Remove from the oven and cool about 15 minutes.
- Reduce oven temperature to 375F.
- Spray a 9×13 dish with cooking spray.
- Unwrap the sweet potatoes, cut open, and scoop out the cooked sweet potato.
- Place in a large bowl. Add the cream, sugar, butter, milk, eggs, vanilla, and salt.
- Mix to combine.
- Spread into prepared casserole dish.
- In a medium bowl, combine the cornflakes, pecans, light brown sugar, and butter.
- Spread mixture over the sweet potatoes.
- Bake uncovered for 20 minutes.
- Remove and sprinkle with miniature marshmallows.
- Return to oven and cook another 3-5 minutes. Or you can broil for 1 minute to toast the marshmallow and get it a light golden brown versus just melting them. (Watch carefully)
- Remove, rest for 5 minutes, and serve warm.
Notes
- Perfect texture - Use a hand mixer or potato masher to mix ingredients. Add in 4 ounces of cream cheese to make it richer and creamier.
- Ingredient swaps - Substitute coconut milk for cream/milk if you prefer.
- Sweeten it up - Add a teaspoon of ground cinnamon and maple syrup to the sweet potato mixture and turn it into dessert.
- Herb are amazing - Roast fresh rosemary or thyme with the sweet potatoes for extra flavor.
Nutrition
Serving: 1 | Calories: 512kcal | Carbohydrates: 79g | Protein: 6g | Fat: 21g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 81mg | Sodium: 424mg | Potassium: 770mg | Fiber: 7g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 29576IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 102mg | Iron: 2mg
